901 Quotes About Gender
- Author Alok Vaid-Menon
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to the two men who yelled: “that’s a man in a dress! heyeveryone that’s a man in a dress!” while pointing at meon sixth avenue:i wanted to turn around and point back, shout: “hey everyone that’s an insecure man, that’s an insecureman! that’s an insecure man!
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- Author Gary Shteyngart
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You go around and you do things and you don't know why you do them," she said. "And that's the story of your gender writ large.
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- Author Jeanette Winterson
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I don't hate men, I just wish they'd try harder.
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- Author Penelope Lively
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...her view of gender distinction was that men were a different breed from women, you deferred to them in some respects and recognized that they had special needs--cooked breakfast and somewhere to go and smoke.
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- Author Joanne Lipman
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One study found that women with blond hair earn 7 percent more than brunettes. Women who wear makeup get better jobs and quicker promotions. Thin women outearn heavier women; white women who are overweight pay a financial penalty of a 12 percent drop in their wealth.......The average woman spends $15,000 on cosmetics alone during her lifetime.
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- Author Roald Dahl
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Personally, I mistrust all handsome men. The superficial pleasures of this life come too easily to them, and they seem to walk the world as though they themselves were personally responsible for their own good looks. I don't mind a woman being pretty. That's different. But in a man, I'm sorry, but somehow or other I find it downright offensive.
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- Author Tamuna Tsertsvadze
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Who is a man without a woman? Giving surnames after one's fathers, as if those fathers can bear children without mothers! Without Yin, there is no Yang! Without Yang, there is no Yin! Both of us are needed to make the world run! How come they think they are superior?!
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- Author Laura Bates
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How can I believe the people that say women have equal rights? When the worst insult a man can be called is a woman, girly, a twat, a cunt, that he needs to 'man up' and the list goes on. My gender is not an insult. I'm tired of all this shit.
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- Author William Finn
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TRINA:I'm tired of all the happy men who rule the world.Their smile, their smile's their pedigree. They smile, but not for me.I'd like the chance to hideIn their world.I'm happy, but I'm not at ease with that whole world.
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