901 Quotes About Gender

He was the most beautiful boy I had ever seen in my life. But he really looked like a girl. She was the most beautiful boy I’d ever seen in my life.

Men may be the head of the house, but the women are the neck, and they can turn the head any way they want.

I suspect that the distinction between a maternal and a paternal instinct is scarcely worth making; the parental instinct, the wish to protect, to further, is not a sex-linked characteristic…

Bodies are not only biological phenomena but also complex social creations onto which meanings have been variously composed and imposed according to time and space.

What was it that marked me as a woman and was I prepared to let it go?

...but he is a man, hence cannot see how tiresome it is to have explained at length what one has already fully understood.

I had yet to learn that when it came to gender, I was both and neither.

...and the women spread their ntsaroz and sit on one side, the men on the other, like they are two different rivers that are not supposed to meet.

Men recorded their experiences and called it history; men looked about the world and called their observations science; men wondered about the existence of God and the problem of evil and called their speculations theology; men did handiwork and called it art; men made up stories, wrote them down and called them literature; men thought about such topics as truth, beauty, justice, and the nature of existence and called their opinions philosophy.