To say that men and women are equally eligible for a certain profession is to say that for the purposes of that profession their sex is irrelevant. We are, in that context, treating both as...

Wine and women make wise men dote and forsake God’s law and do wrong.” However, the fault is not in the wine, and often not in the woman. The fault is in the one who...

The most cursory examination of even the most progressive organs of information reveals a curious inability to recognize women as newsmakers, unless they are young or married to a head of state or naked or...

With eyes closed, a kiss is genderless. Now that mustaches are in fashion, some women are finding more hipster love.

My father was a man, and I know the sex pretty well.

Most women are all too familiar with men like Calvin Smith. Men whose sense of prerogative renders them deaf when women say, “No thanks,” “Not interested,” or even “Fuck off, creep.

While railing against the manufactured prerequisites of womanhood or manhood, we need to avoid manufacturing our own prerequisites. The non-operative journey and the objection to it illustrate just one area in which we need to...

Boys dream of strippers, men dream of their women waiting for them at home.

Guys who would make fun of girls for sexual inexperience are terrible people, and when girls do it to other girls it feels even shittier. Guys who shame girls who haven’t had sex want them...

My roles in the ’80s were, like, gender dysphoric. I wasn’t pretty, I wasn’t this, I wasn’t that. And I am kind of butchy, you know. That’s just my thing.

I was used to being perceived as having a good attitude. Self-control, self-effacement, self-denial. People like this, especially in girls.

t is generally recognized that women are better than men at languages, personal relations and multitasking, but less good at map-reading and spatial awareness. It is therefore not unreasonable to suppose that women might be...

Different though the sexes are, they inter-mix. In every human being a vacillation from one sex to the other takes place, and often it is only the clothes that keep the male or female likeness,...

[In 16th century European society] Marriage was the triumphal arch through which women, almost without exception, had to pass in order to reach the public eye. And after marriage followed, in theory, the total self-abnegation...

I felt like a monster a lot of the time. It made me understand men. It made me understand adolescent boys a lot.

There are certain phrases potent to make my blood boil — improper influence! What old woman’s cackle is that?””Are you a young lady?””I am a thousand times better: I am an honest woman, and as...

Love Knows NO GENDER.

Pink is female – but why? Are girls any more pink than boys? Are boys any more blue than girls? It’s something that has been sold to us, mostly so other things can be sold...

As far as I was concerned men were something you had around the place, not particularly interesting, but quite harmless. I had never shown the slightest feeling for them, and apart from my never wearing...

There was no single gay point of view. Like skin color or gender or any of those arbitrary, sometimes artificial, difference sexual orientation didn’t make us all the same. But it did affect us. It...

Possibility is not a luxury; it is as crucial as bread.

When the Majority of jokes made at the expense of trans people center on “men wearing dresses” or “men who want their penises cut off” that is not transphobia- it is trans-misogyny. When the majority...

A woman’s guess is much more accurate than a man’s certainty.

Fundamental to a radical and lesbian feminist politics is the understanding that ‘the personal is political’. This phrase has two interrelated meanings. It means that the political power structures of the ‘public’ world are reflected...

The king was pregnant.

As Atwood concludes after a random and informal sampling, men and women differ markedly in the ‘scope of their threatenability’: ‘Why do men feel threatened by woman?’ I asked a male friend of mine….'[M]en are...

I personally believe that gender equality underlines every other equality, and certainly the issue of sexuality. For instance, if we didn’t distinguish between gender, in terms of giving different genders disparate values and attributes, what...

As long as I’m here.”This is a guy thing.You never want to acknowledge that you and another guy had exactly the same thought in exactly the same words and that you spoke them aloud ....

Wherever you find a great man, you will find a great mother or a great wife standing behind him — or so they used to say. It would be interesting to know how many great...

Woman” in the abstract is young, and, we assume, charming. As they get older they pass off the stage, somehow, into private ownership mostly, or out of it altogether.

No matter your race, level of education, gender, age, religion, cultural beliefs, physical appearance, social status, financial status and more, always remember that you are as important as everyone else.

Yet if women are so flighty, fickle, changeable, susceptible, and inconstant (as some clerks would have us believe), why is it that their suitors have to resort to such trickery to have their way with...

It’s a secret code,” said Calvin. “Girls are not not like boys. If a boy wants to kill you, he says ‘I’m going to kill you.’ If a girl wants to kill you, she says,...

She had a theory that the fear of getting in trouble was what made her not as good a programmer and that, in fact, it was all linked to testosterone, and that was why there...

It is vain to expect virtue from women till they are in some degree independent of men.

I looked from one to the other, and realized that Barrons and my dad were having one of those wordless conversations he and I have from time to time. Though the language was, by nature,...

If the ultimate goal is lasting love, women are going to have to become comfortable with sacrifice and capitulation. Because those are the underpinnings of a long-term marriage – for both sexes.

Quoting Samuel Johnson: “Men know that women are an overmatch for them, and therefore they choose the weakest or the most ignorant. If they did not think so, they never could be afraid of women...

Women and fiction remain, so far as I am concerned, unsolved problems.

You’re free to wear whatever you want, you know that.””Yes, sir. And then I thought about Dee. And I watched the king when he was talking to you, and… well, I can wear what I...

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.

I think the Big Bang theory must have been invented by a man. A woman would have wanted it to take longer and insisted on a commitment.

We have enough proof that, at least my generation does, that patriarchy and matriarchy are gender-less roles.

Who are we to say getting incested or abused or violated or any of those things can’t have their positive aspects in the long run? … You have to be careful of taking a knee-jerk...

Perhaps, thought Nanny, little green Elphaba chose her own sex, and her own color, and to hell with her parents.

Safe gender is being who and what we want to be when we want to be that, with no threat of censure or violence.Safe gender is going as far in any direction as we wish,...

She transcends her sport, which is what any sport needs…And she does it while smiling the whole time. It’s kind of a joke, but then again it’s not, especially if you’re a male pro trailing...

We were there too, the other geeks and weird kids whose lives were hellish at school, who escaped into books and computers, who stayed up all night scanning obscure forums, looking for transcendence, dreaming of...

In the grammar of the phallus — the I, I, I — [woman] can’t utter female experience.

Ruth believes that boys are not found around stables because what they like is taking things apart and putting them together again, and for this purpose horses are not so satisfactory as cars, motorcycles, and...