A man is lucky if he is the first love of a woman. A woman is lucky if she is the last love of a man.

He says in his defence he never meddled with married women, only with virgins.

We raise our children, especially girls, to ignore their spontaneious reactions-we teach them not to rock the societal boat…By the time she is thirty, the valient little girl’s “Ick!”-her tendency to respond, to rock the...

When you grow up as a girl, it is like there are faint chalk lines traced approximately three inches around your entire body at all times, drawn by society and often religion and family and...

La fécondité absurde de la femme l’empêchait de participer activement à l’accroissement de ces ressources tandis qu’elle créait indéfiniment de nouveaux besoins.

I’m not sure how we got to this place, where a girl’s only value is in what kind of marriage she has, how capable she is of keeping a man happy.

When women’s sexuality is imagined to be passive or “dirty,” it also means that men’s sexuality is automatically positioned as aggressive and right-no matter what form it takes. And when one of the conditions of...

It’s my choice to be beautiful. It’s my choice to be ugly. And it’s my choice to decided what those words actually mean.

What do you fear, lady?” [Aragorn] asked. “A cage,” [Éowyn] said. “To stay behind bars, until use and old age accept them, and all chance of doing great deeds is gone beyond recall or desire.

As for the boys…”vulnerable fathers turn to time-honored defensive responses to maintain the function that father knows best’ Parents, especially fathers, teach their sons to obey authority no matter what.

The workplace would allow parents to work part time, to share jobs, to take personal leaves to give birth, tend to a sick child, or care for a well one. As Delores Hayden has envisioned...

In politics, If you want anything said, ask a man. If you want anything done, ask a woman.

Mais de toute façon, engendrer, allaiter ne sont pas des activités, ce sont des fonctions naturelles; aucun projet n’y est engagé; c’est pourquoi la femme n’y trouve pas le motif d’une affirmation hautaine de son...

My father might not have held my hand or expressed his love openly, but he taught Callie and me that we had inherent values, that we were fully formed human beings without a boy by...

It’s time to undo Rahim.

They were happier now than they would ever be again. A tenpenny tea set made Cam happy for days. She heard them stamping and crowing on the floor above her head the moment they woke....

All your words are but to say: you are a woman, and your part is in the house. But when the men have died in battle and honour, you have leave to be burned in...

A wife should always be few feet behind her husband. If he is an MA you should be a BA.If he is 5’4’tall you shouldn’t be more than 5’3’tall. If he is earning five hundred...

the wounded child inside many males is a boy who, when he first spoke his truths, was silenced by paternal sadism, by a patriarchal world that did not want him to claim his true feelings....

It was true. Men could be with whomever they pleased. But women had to date better, kinder, richer, and bright, bright, bright, or else people got embarrassed.

Dès l’origine de l’humanité, leur privilège biologique a permis aux m les de s’affirmer seuls comme sujets souverains; ils n’ont jamais abdiqué ce privilège (…) Condamnée à jouer le rôle de l’Autre, la femme était...

Why love has to intense? Women’s love isn’t. It is a male contribution to a relationship. What does a woman contribute? Children continuity- intentional immortality.

The world demands I make good choices on no information, and then blames my maidenhood for my mistakes, as if my maidenhood were responsible for my ignorance. Ignorance is not stupidity, but it might as...

He should be very proud of Andrew if he got a scholarship, he said. She would be just as proud of him if he didn’t, she answered. They disagreed always about this, but it did...

Girls can be athletic. Guys can have feelings. Girls can be smart. Guys can be creative. And vice versa. Gender is specific only to your reproductive organs (and sometimes not even to those), not your...

Gender identity is our internal response to a social construction that attempts to make a connection between a person’s biological makeup and their eventual role in society.

Understanding the shadow masculine or shadow feminine in oneself iscrucial not only for enhancing one ’s own wholeness but for championingjustice between genders and all diverse groups in the community. If theshadow is not recognized...

One of the chief paradoxes of our culture [is] that the welfare of its children, its _future_, is placed almost exclusively in the hands of people of low status, a class it holds in contempt.

Le pays latins, comme les pays d’Orient, oppriment la femme par le rigueur des moeurs encore plus que par celle des lois.

What is a woman’s place in this modern world? Jasnah Kholin’s words read. I rebel against this question, though so many of my peers ask it. The inherent bias in the inquiry seems invisible to...

He said, I won’t have one of those things in the house. It gives a young girl a false notion of beauty, not to mention anatomy. If a real woman was built like that she’d...

Indeed, she had the whole of the other sex under her protection; for reasons she could not explain, for their chivalry and valour, for the fact that they negotiated treaties, ruled India, controlled finance; finally...

Today, we live in a vastly different world. The person more qualified to lead is not the physically stronger person. It is the more intelligent, the more knowledgeable, the more creative, more innovative. And there...

I’m going to go out on a limb here. I’ve thought a lot about this one, as a feminist, and as an author. How should traditional roles be portrayed? In fantasy literature there is a...

Unwittingly, the feminists acknowledge the superiority of the male sex by wishing to become like men.

I have not lived as a woman. I have lived as a man. I’ve just done what I damn well wanted to, and I’ve made enough money to support myself, and ain’t afraid of being...

American culture enforces such rigid gender roles for male friendships that they are gay unless they materially resemble a beer commercial.

I don’t think male gamers are more or less sexist than non-gamers. Sexism is unfortunately still a large problem in our culture overall. It is not unique to gaming. Have a pretty girl walk by...

People call me a feminist whenever I express statements that distinguish me from a doormat.

To be Queen Elizabeth within a definite area, deciding sales, banquets, labours, and holidays; to be Whitely within a certain area, providing toys, boots, cakes and books; to be Aristotle within a certain area, teaching...

Un des problèmes essentiels qui se posent à propos de la femme, c’est la conciliation de son rôle reproducteur et de son travail producteur.

For me, the times that I dressed provocatively had been empowering. It felt good. It’s those times that I felt comfortable in my own skin. Like really, really comfortable. And let’s face it, body self-esteem...

Dissociation from the body and emotions – numbness – is a basic requirement of the male ideal. Hardy and Hough point out that the patriarchal culture’s influence is so strong on this point that it...

Masculinity is part of a binary and requires its opposite, since, in the absence of femininity, masculinity would have no meaning.

Magistrate: May I die a thousand deaths ere I obey one who wears a veil!Lysistrata: If that’s all that troubles you, here take my veil, wrap it round your head, and hold your tounge. Then...

Depression, somehow, is much more in line with society’s notions of what women are all about: passive, sensitive, hopeless, helpless, stricken, dependent, confused, rather tiresome, and with limited aspirations. Manic states, on the other hand,...

Men die in battle; women die in childbirth.

Nobody does,” I assure him.

Le privilège économique détenu par les hommes, leur valeur sociale, le prestige du mariage, l’utilité d’un appui masculin, tout engage les femmes à vouloir ardenment plaire aux hommes. Elles sont encore dans l’ensemble en situation...

Males have been groomed since birth, according to the specifications of a sick and perverse society, to become instruments of war.