Quotes of Gender - somelinesforyou

“ If folks can learn to be racist, then they can learn to be anti racist. If being sexist ain't genetic, then, dad gum, people can learn about gender equality. ”

- Johnnetta Betsch Cole

“ The power I exert on the court depends on the power of my arguments, not on my gender. ”

- Sandra Day O’Connor

“ Sexism is the foundation on which all tyranny is built. Every social form of hierarchy and abuse is modeled on male-over-female domination. ”

- Andrea Dworkin

“ The passion between the sexes has appeared in every age to be so nearly the same, that it may always be considered, in algebraic language as a given quantity. ”

- Thomas Robert Malthus

“ There is no original or primary gender a drag imitates, but gender is a kind of imitation for which there is no original. ”

- Judith Butler

“ After centuries of conditioning of the female into the condition of perpetual girlishness called femininity, we cannot remember what femaleness is. ”

- Germaine Greer

“ Boys will be boys. And even that wouldn't matter if only we could prevent girls from being girls. ”

- Anne Frank

“ In the theory of gender I began from zero. There is no masculine power or privilege I did not covet. But slowly, step by step, decade by decade, I was forced to acknowledge that even a woman of abnormal will cannot escape her hormonal identity. ”

- Camille Paglia

“ Unlike femininity, relaxed masculinity is at bottom empty, a limp nullity. While the female body is full of internal potentiality, the male is internally barren. Manhood at the most basic level can be validated and expressed only in action. ”

- George Gilder

“ A family is a family not because of gender but because of values, like commitment, trust and love. ”

- Gray Davis

“ The real problem between the sexes is that for men, sex is a gender-underliner, they need it for their egos. We don't need sex to make us feel we are the person we need to be. ”

- Carol Clewlow

“ We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races, even alone in genders. ”

- Maya Angelou

“ A toy has no gender and no idea of whether a girl or boy is playing with it. ”

- Letty Cottin Pogrebin

“ But let me tell you, this gender thing is history. You're looking at a guy who sat down with Margaret Thatcher across the table and talked about serious issues. ”

- George H. W. Bush

“ I'm a sex machine to both genders. It's all very exhausting. I need a lot of sleep. ”

- Rupert Everett

“ We are a model country where gender equality is concerned. ”

- Tarja Halonen

“ What everyone in the astronaut corps shares in common is not gender or ethnic background, but motivation, perseverance, and desire - the desire to participate in a voyage of discovery. ”

- Ellen Ochoa

“ Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent. ”

- Friedrich Nietzsche

“ There is nothing safe about sex. There never will be. ”

- Norman Mailer

“ Love ain't nothing but sex misspelled. ”

- Harlan Ellison

“ No one will ever win the battle of the sexes; there's too much fraternizing with the enemy. ”

- Henry Kissinger

“ In the sex war, thoughtlessness is the weapon of the male, vindictiveness of the female. ”

- Cyril Connolly

“ A woman's always younger than a man at equal years. ”

- Elizabeth Barrett Browning

“ Either sex alone is half itself. ”

- Lord Alfred Tennyson

“ Either sex alone is half itself. ”

- Alfred Tennyson

“ A man's as old as he's feeling. A woman as old as she looks. ”

- Mortimer Collins

“ Because there is very little honor left in American life, there is a certain built-in tendency to destroy masculinity in American men. ”

- Norman Mailer

“ Boxing is a celebration of the lost religion of masculinity all the more trenchant for its being lost. ”

- Joyce Carol Oates

“ How beautiful maleness is, if it finds its right expression. ”

- D. H. Lawrence
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