901 Quotes About Gender

I was used to being perceived as having a good attitude. Self-control, self-effacement, self-denial. People like this, especially in girls.

Gender and the complications it gives rise to simply aren't relevant to the lives appliances lead.

If a woman tells a man the god favor him, everybody says she's far-minded.' The broom halted mid-sweep and the slave turned to Hild. 'But let a woman do what the gods tell her, without asking a man's permission first? Then she's possessed.' Unwen punctuated her words with her broom, jabbing it into the corner.

[...] and unfortunately most women did not seem to have the same urges. Or if they did, they wouldn't admit it. They probably didn't, anyway. But if they did they wouldn't admit it.

The fundamental condition of man is his verticality.

Young men list music as their focus and means of identity -- before sport, before TV, before cinema -- while women cite fashion as most important, with music an ambivalent second.

In a 1999 paper, Reiner indicates that his data show "that with time and age, children may well know what their gender is, regardless of any and all information and child-rearing to the contrary. They seem to be quite capable of telling us who they are, and we can observe how they act and function even before they tell us.

We are constantly trapped by gender, even when we know we are trapped by it. You can't truly escape something so all-pervasive; you can only negotiate your own terms with it, and everybody's terms are different.

Es gibt damit nichts, das nur Yin oder nur Yang ist oder anders ausgedrückt, nichts und niemand Lebendiges kann rein feminin oder maskulin sein. Die statischen Kategorien von Mann* und Frau* sowie die Auf- und Abwertung willkürlicher Aspekte ergibt aus dieser Perspektive keinen Sinn, da sie nur durch den anderen Pol existieren