901 Quotes About Gender

We minimize our anger, calling it frustration, impatience, exasperation, or irritation, words that don't convey the intrinsic social and public demand that 'anger' does. We learn to contain our selves: our voices, hair, clothes, and, most importantly, speech. Anger is usually about saying "no" in a world where women are conditioned to say almost anything but "no.

When a woman shows anger in institutional, political, and professional settings, she automatically violates gender norms.

The Statue of Liberty's gender changed nothing. It was the same here as anywhere: men and their wars.

The ways of men and women are such a puzzle. And I could barely decipher my own feelings, let along anyone else's.

A man's shortcoming lies in the belief that he must always assert his manliness. A woman's shortcoming lies in the belief that she must always repress it.

A major assumption that underlies this selection is that it is only within work that is progressive, experimental or avant-garde that staid, old-fashioned images and ideas about gender can be challenged and alternatives imagined. I have never seen a ballet performance that has not disappointed me.

I'm more of a man than you'll ever be and more of a woman than you'll ever get.

And after all, authors' heroines are almost as good as authoress's heroes.

If you are vulnerable to gender issues, working or living at high altitudes may bring on Gender Dysphoria (GD).