Top Gender Quotes
Gender Definition
(n.) Kind; sort.
(n.) Sex, male or female.
(n.) A classification of nouns, primarily according to sex; and secondarily according to some fancied or imputed quality associated with sex.
(n.) To beget; to engender.
(v. i.) To copulate; to breed.
God bids you not to commit lechery, that is, not to have sex with any woman except your wife. You ask of that she should not have sex with anyone except you -- yet you are not willing to observe the...
Augustine of Hippo
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double standards, fidelity, gender, hypocrisy, marriage, men, misogyny, morality, sexuality, social norms
I am not an angel,' I asserted; 'and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself. Mr. Rochester, you must neither expect nor exact anything celestial of me - for you will not get it, any more than...
Charlotte Bronte
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empowerment, flaws, freedom, gender, ideal woman, identity, image, independence, integrity, love
I do not think, sir, you have any right to command me, merely because you are older than I, or because you have seen more of the world than I have; your claim to superiority depends on the use you hav...
Charlotte Bronte
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empowerment, equality, experience, freedom, gender, independence, men, reason, self determination, submission
I learned a lot about systems of oppression and how they can be blind to one another by talking to black men. I was once talking about gender and a man said to me, Why does it have to be you as a woma...
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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blind, experiences, gender, human being, oppression, question, silencing, systems, talking, woman