901 Quotes About Gender

Perhaps, thought Nanny, little green Elphaba chose her own sex, and her own color, and to hell with her parents.

I decided that being called “crazy” by a man was not an insult but a challenge. It gives the woman an opportunity to say, “Crazy? Oh, I’ll show you fucking crazy.

Nature held me close and seemed to find no fault with me.

All dwarfs have beards and wear up to twelve layers of clothing. Gender is more or less optional.

To borrow a metaphor from the kitchen sink… Children form strong opinions easily. They soak up information from their parents, school, and the media, and repeat it back to the world. So when you don’t look or act like what everyone has been told is the norm, you get proverbially barfed on a lot.

I was young and stupid. I did not see limitations because of my race or my sex or my nationality. I didn't see limitations at all. Kids never do until they learn them.

I looked from one to the other, and realized that Barrons and my dad were having one of those wordless conversations he and I have from time to time. Though the language was, by nature, foreign to me, I grew up in the Deep South where a man’s ego is roughly the size of his pickup truck, and women get an early and interesting education in the not-so-subtle roar of testosterone.

If there are real men, I haven't met them yet.

You were showing him your muscle?”I froze, wondering how much she had seen.She smiled. “Sometimes it’s better to let boysthink they're stronger,” she told me.