901 Quotes About Gender
- Author Taylor Swift
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A lot of people think if they’re shouting the loudest, they’ll be heard, but most people lose respect for you when you lose your cool. You have to maintain everyone’s respect, especially as a woman in a position of power. It’s terrible to be at that kind of disadvantage, where if you yell, people will talk about you behind your back more than if you were a man. Because of those social injustices we face as women, you have to make sure that no one can call you a crazy bitch.
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- Author Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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Making God a man is the consolation prize that our forefathers gave themselves for not being the ones who were each blessed with a vagina.
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- Author Karen Swallow Prior
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A useful education served women best, More thought. To ‘learn how to grow old gracefully is perhaps one of the rarest and most valuable arts which can be taught to a woman.’ Yet, when beauty is all that is expected or desired in a woman, she is left with nothing in its absence. It ‘is a most severe trail for those women to be called to lay down beauty, who have nothing else to take up. It is for this sober season of life that education should lay up its rich resources,’ she argued.
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- Author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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Today, we live in a vastly different world. The person more qualified to lead is not the physically stronger person. It is the more intelligent, the more knowledgeable, the more creative, more innovative. And there are no hormones for those attributes. A man is as likely as a woman to be intelligent, innovative, creative. We have evolved. But our ideas of gender have not evolved very much.
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- Author Rebecca Traister
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Cities allow us to extract some of the transactional services that were assumed to be an integral, gendered aspect of traditional marriage and enjoy them as actual transactional service, for which we pay. This dynamic also permits women to function in the world in a way that was once impossible, with the city serving as spouse and, sometimes, true love.
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- Author Gil McNeil
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She did, she really told her. She was pretty scary, actually," "The best women always are, love; you don't get to my age without realizing that.
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- Author Gloria Ng
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For my relationships with men to change, I needed to change my relationship to myself as a woman.
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- Author Michelle Obama
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I didn't want them ever to believe that life began when the man of the house arrived home. We didn't wait for Dad. It was his job now to catch up with us.
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- Author Jewelle Gomez
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The simple fact that there's a title for him-husband-means he has a role in the family, whatever his ethnicity.
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