Top Gender Quotes

This is the next and the more profound stage of the battle for civil rights. We seek not just freedom but opportunity. We seek not just legal equity but human ability, not just equality as a right and...

To understand women who look both ways requires hearing their stories, not just noting the sex of their current partner. And when you listen closely, it's apparent these women have learned something c...

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.

There are plenty of images of women in science fiction. There are hardly any women.

The First Mobile, if one is sent, must be warned that unless he is very self-assured, or senile, his pride will suffer. A man wants his virility regarded, a woman wants her femininity appreciated, how...

I think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men they are far superior and always have been.

It's my view that gender is culturally formed, but it's also a domain of agency or freedom and that it is most important to resist the violence that is imposed by ideal gender norms, especially agains...

Here all guilt ceases, for it cannot cling to such flowers as these.

It's Saturday; a day off, or it's not; maybe it's a day off connected to countless days off. Some are secure, some not, some wonder. But there's a common thread; each of us having purpose; some living...

Any serious shift towards more sustainable societies has to include gender equality.

When we are surrounded by such diversity - in nature, in culture, in human spirit - how can we stand not to acknowledge it?

She wanted to hold on to the rosy candlelight glow of romance, rather than have to deal with the bright, sometimes glaring day-to-day life with another person. And who could blame her?

Marriage should be between a spouse and a spouse, not a gender and a gender.

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...

Men and women should own the world as a mutual possession.

The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.

The world is changing, I said. It is no longer a world just for boys and men.Our women are respected here, said the father. We would never let them tramp the world as American women do. There is alway...

I always wondered why the makers leave housekeeping and cooking out of their tales. Isn't it what all the great wars and battles are fought for -- so that at day's end a family may eat together in a p...

If woman had no existence save in the fiction written by men, one would imagine her a person of the utmost importance (...); as great as a man, some think even greater. But this is woman in fiction. I...

The scope of the transgender empire may be reaching its peak, as transcriticism is increasing at a fast pace both within activist feminism and from wives and regretters. There is an increasing grounds...

When the two become the oneAnd the inside outside, the outside inSo that the male be not male nor the female femaleThen will you see me.