901 Quotes About Gender

The cyborg would not recognize the Garden of Eden; it is not made of mud and cannot dream of returning to dust.

Why was it that the females of the species were always the ones left to tidy up, she wondered? I expect Jesus came out of the tomb...and said to his mother, "Can you tidy it up a bit back there?

Like you, I am woman and more than woman. I have felt a woman's pain, but I have hunted like a man. Who else has lived both lives?

Why would I continue life as a man trapped in a girl’s body when I could just as easily fly into the heavens or run with the wolves?

Bravery, she thinks, belongs to girls. But freedom belongs to boys.

The uncomplicated turn-on I get from reading gay erotica written by gay men for gay men feels in some way transgressive when it is a straight woman doing it to me in an m/m romance. Talk about being gender fucked.

Drag intends to make a parody of what society believes to be the domain of either gender, in order to make us realise how tenuous and ridiculous such constructs are. The drag queen may have all the accessories and paraphernalia which society uses to determine femininity, but the result is not feminine at all. Drag is a creatively subversive performance, inviting the audience to question frameworks of gender.

For example, women have been incarcerated in psychiatric institutions in greater proportions than in prisons. Studies indicating that women have been even more likely to end up in mental facilities than men suggest that while jails and prisons have been dominant institutions for thecontrol of men, mental institutions have served a similar purpose for women. That is, deviant men have been constructed as criminal, while deviant women have been constructed as insane.

Single, childless women are the only women who report that they have the time and freedom to pursue interests, ambitions, and hobbies at the same rate as married heterosexual men do.