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fiery” being who is in need of taming

—Mohadesa Najumi

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It’s Saturday; a day off, or it’s not; maybe it’s a day off connected to countless days off. Some are secure, some not, some wonder. But there’s a common thread; each of us having purpose;...

—Lee Goff

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Your trouble has been what old poets call Daungier. We call it Pride. You are offended by the masculine itself: the loud, irruptive, possessive thing-the gold lion, the bearded bull—which breaks through hedges and scatters...

—C.S. Lewis

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You are a real hermaphrodite, Mafouka,’ I said. ‘That is what our age is supposed to have produced because the tension between the masculine and the feminine has broken down, people are mostly half of...

—Anaïs Nin

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sex separation in the classroom leads to a bullshit socio-economic situation perpetuated by people with good intentions.

—Darnell Lamont

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I find it ridiculous to assign a gender to an inanimate object incapable of disrobing and making an occasional fool of itself.

—David Sedaris

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Shooting Willoughby carrying Marianne up the path. … Male strength — the desire to be cradled again? … I’d love someone to pick me up and carry me off. Frightening. Lindsay assures me I’d start...

—Emma Thompson

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A girl’s got to use what she’s given and I’m not going to make a guy drool the way a Britney video does. So I take it to extremes. I don’t say I dress sexily...

—Lady Gaga

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When we talk about my gender as though it were a performance, we let the audience – with all their expectations, prejudices, and presumptions – completely off the hook. – Scott Turner Schofield

—Kate Bornstein

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Men have worked as essentially shop keepers and store clerks for a lot longer than they have worked on assembly lines. There have been waiters forever. Lawyers are the world’s second oldest profession. Teaching was...

—Lance Mannion

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Dear Men Everywhere,Please don’t think that being a feminist means we hate you or don’t need you. -We absolutely love you and couldn’t live without you! …We are just on a mission to be treated...

—Miya Yamanouchi

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If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.

—Plato

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Girls, here’s the truth about the Ban Bossy campaign: It’s being spearheaded by a privileged group of elite feminists who have a very vested interest in stoking victim politics and exacerbating the gender divide. They...

—Michelle Malkin

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If I hadn’t trained Lula Ann properly she wouldn’t have known to always cross the street and avoid white boys.

—Toni Morrison

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A major assumption that underlies this selection is that it is only within work that is progressive, experimental or avant-garde that staid, old-fashioned images and ideas about gender can be challenged and alternatives imagined. I...

—Ramsay Burt

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[S]ince you are angry at me without reason, you attack me harshly with, “Oh outrageous presumption! Oh excessively foolish pride! Oh opinion uttered too quickly and thoughtlessly by the mouth of a woman! A woman...

—book of

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It’s imprecise and insufficient, defining the homosexual as a person whose gender expression is at odds with his or her sex.

—Alison Bechdel

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[Y]ou are not ashamed of your sin [in committing adultery] because so many men commit it. Man’s wickedness is now such that men are more ashamed of chastity than of lechery. Murderers, thieves, perjurers, false...

—Augustine of Hippo

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If men could see us as we really are, they would be a little amazed; but the cleverest, the acutest men are often under an illusion about women: they do not read them in a...

—Charlotte Brontë

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Never look down on someone because God himself does not do so. No matter what defines the status, nationality or gender of a person, once God’s spirit is in him/her, he or she becomes a...

—Israelmore Ayivor

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We are turning against boys and forgetting a simple truth: that the energy, competitiveness, and corporal daring of normal, decent males is responsible for much of what is right in the world.

—Christina Hoff

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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;...

—Linda Tschirhart

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Why aren’t you asking a hundred other guys why they don’t write strong women characters? I believe that what I’m doing should not be remarked upon, let alone honoured… Because equality is not a concept....

—Joss Whedon

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… that gender is a choice, or that gender is a role, or that gender is a construction that one puts on, as one puts on clothes in the morning, that there is a ‘one’...

—Judith Butler

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Do you really believe … that everything historians tell us about men – or about women – is actually true? You ought to consider the fact that these histories have been written by men, who...

—Moderata Fonte

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There is abundant scholarship which establishes that the delegitimation of homosexual desire and the production of the naturally heterosexual, properly bi-gendered (unambiguously male or female) population of citizens, with the women respectably desexualized, is a...

—Nivedita Menon

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Radical feminist theorists do not seek to make gender a bit more flexible, but to eliminate it. They are gender abolitionists, and understand gender to provide the framework and rationale for male dominance. In the...

—Sheila Jeffreys

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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…

—Ursula K. Le Guin

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I would rather trust a woman’s instinct than a man’s reason.

—Stanley Baldwin

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Any violation of a woman’s body can become sex for men; this is the essential truth of pornography.

—Andrea Dworkin

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Even beyond the Middle East, the role of the independent women remains as warped as a Lewis Caroll novel. We may control $12 trillion of the world’s $184 trillion in annual consumer spending (I read...

—Amy Mowafi

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[W]hen I see men callously and cheerfully denying women the full use of their bodies, while insisting with sobs and howls on the satisfaction of their own, I simply can’t find it heroic, or kind,...

—Dorothy L. Sayers

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everything in our culture tells men and boys to avoid any interest, activity or community dominated by women – and when article after article insists that boys are reading less than girls; when the pop...

—Foz Meadows

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

—Debra Ollivier

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My Lady, you certainly tell me about wonderful constancy, strength and virtue and firmness of women, so can one say the same thing about men? (…)Response [by Lady Rectitude]: “Fair sweet friend, have you not...

—Christine de

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There are transitional forms between the metals and non-metals; between chemical combinations and simple mixtures, between animals and plants, between phanerogams and cryptogams, and between mammals and birds […]. The improbability may henceforth be taken...

—Otto Weininger

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And here, of course, we come to the one occupation of a female protagonist in literature, the one thing she can do, and by God she does it and does it and does it, over...

—Joanna Russ

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My own sex, I hope, will excuse me, if I treat them like rational creatures, instead of flattering their fascinating graces, and viewing them as if they were in a state of perpetual childhood, unable...

—Mary Wollstonecraft

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I was not ladylike, nor was I manly. I was something else altogether. There were so many different ways to be beautiful.

—Michael Cunningham

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Women are extraordinary creatures!

—Roman Payne

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You men,’ she says. ‘You durn men.

—William Faulkner

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Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.

—Virginia Woolf

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All dwarfs have beards and wear up to twelve layers of clothing. Gender is more or less optional.

—Terry Pratchett

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The ones who are having a hard time are seeing only the gender rules and norms and how their kids are violating that. So they’re reacting out of shame, ‘What will the neighbors think?

—Caitlin Ryan

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There is a resemblance between men and women, not a contrast. When a man begins to recognize his feeling, the two unite. When men accept the sensitive side of themselves, they come alive.

—Anaïs Nin

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I am not an angel,’ I asserted; ‘and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself. Mr. Rochester, you must neither expect nor exact anything celestial of me – for you...

—Charlotte Brontë

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It is as though they simply cannot contemplate the notion of a short, slight man who dresses and moves like a popular (mis)conception of a homosexual being attractive to millions of women.

—Dave Hill

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I do not think I ever opened a book in my life which had not something to say upon woman’s inconstancy. Songs and proverbs, all talk of woman’s fickleness. But perhaps you will say, these...

—Jane Austen

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I quit because I was good, and when you’re good and a girl at something, you should be suspicious.’‘Of what?’‘Of what part of yourself you didn’t know you were selling.

—Kirsten Kaschock

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Drag queen is a gender like no other, and with practice I’d learned to rise to it.

—Kate Bornstein

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