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.
When, however, one reads of a witch being ducked, of a woman possessed by devils, of a wise woman selling herbs, or even of a very remarkable man who had a mother, then I think we are on the track of...
Virginia Woolf
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dignity, empowerment, feminism, gender, history, misogyny, persecution, social norms, suppression, witches
There are certain phrases potent to make my blood boil -- improper influence! What old woman's cackle is that?Are you a young lady?I am a thousand times better: I am an honest woman, and as such I wil...
Charlotte Bronte
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expectations, gender, honesty, independence, influence, integrity, love, marriage, matrimony, propriety
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