901 Quotes About Gender

A man’s fate is a woman’s destiny...

Any violation of a woman's body can become sex for men; this is the essential truth of pornography.

You are not male or female, but a plandeep-set within the heart of man.

I found power in accepting the truth of who I am. It may not be a truth that others can accept, but I cannot live any other way. How would it be to live a lie every minute of your life?

The female form provides the solution in which the essence itself is held; she is passio, and acted upon, the male is actio, the mover.

I've become just like the white boys at middle-school dances: the boys by the wall, earthbound boys, wing-severed boys with stiff bodies. There is nothing behind the door in my chest that should uncage the kind of feminine softness I should have, the kind you told me would settle into my chest and my hips. It never did.

Whereas in the twentieth century, there was a distinction between men and women, in the twenty-first century the lines of gender will become more and more blurred.

Men and women are performative and somatic fictions, convinced of their natural reality.

Immodest creature, you do not want a woman who will accept your faults, you want the one who pretends you are faultless – one who will caress the hand that strikes her and kiss the lips that lie to her."(Letter, 17 June 1837)