Quotes about Gender

In my journals I have a lot of conversations that I'm having with you in my head. I'll be having a conversation with you and I'll put it in my journal because stereotypically or symbolically these conversations occur in a space of Black woman/white woman where it's beyond Adrienne and Audre, almost as if we're two voices.

In a sense I portray myself in a very androgynous way, and I love androgyny.

When I consider the seven women I chose, I see that most of them were great for reasons that derive precisely from their being women, not in spite of it; and what made them great has nothing to do with their being measured against or competing with men. In other words, their accomplishments are not gender-neutral but are rooted in their singularity as women.

She firmly believes feminism to be anti-woman because it pressures women to become more like men.

Men and women are not interchangeable. There are things men can and should do that women cannot, and there are things that women can and should do that men cannot. So comparing men and women is something like comparing apples and oranges, except apples and oranges are actually far more like each other than are men and women. Apples and oranges can exist without each other, but men and women cannot.

The lesson in all this is that to pit women against men is a form of denigration of women, as though their measure must be determined by masculine standards.

Back in the days when men were hunters and chest beaters and women spent their whole lives worrying about pregnancy or dying in childbirth, they often had to be taken against their will. Men complained that women were cold, unresponsive, frigid. They wanted their women wanton. They wanted their women wild. Now women were finally learning to be wanton and wild -- and what happened? The men wilted

Men have always detested women's gossip because they suspect the truth: Their measurements are being taken and compared.

Show me a woman who doesn't feel guilty and I'll show you a man.

At Manchester City, the women are not second-class citizens in any regard. We are treated exactly the same way - it's a level playing field.

When I was born, some of our relatives came to our house and told my mother, 'Don't worry, next time you will have a son.'

In Swat, there are two jobs a woman's going to do: a teacher or a doctor. If not, then become a housewife.