“What is male and female? Is it just a physical condition? No. The energy runs very, very differently in a woman than in a man.” MenRunningEnergyWomenConditionsEnlightenmentFemaleMales Author:Frederick Lenz
“Throughout Asia and Europe, pearls were traditionally believed to ease a range of conditions, including eye diseases, fever, insomnia, 'female complaints', dysentery, whooping cough, measles, loss of virility, and bed-wetting ... Though nobody seems to advertise the potential for pearls to cure bed-wetting anymore.” SeemsEyeLossConditionsBedDiseaseEuropeFemaleIncludingCuresRangeEaseComplaintsPearlsAsiaInsomniaFeverMeaslesWhooping CoughDysentery Book:Jewels: A Secret History Source: Jewels: A Secret History
“[On gender-rating by insurance companies:] They say the reason they get to charge more is we have children. I would say having children is a socially useful act. Being female is not a preexisting condition.” ChildrenReasonCompanyConditionsFemaleGenderRatingHaving ChildrenInsurance Companies Author:Gloria Steinem
“After centuries of conditioning of the female into the condition of perpetual girlishness called femininity, we cannot remember what femaleness is.” RememberWomenConditionsCenturyFemalePerpetualFemininityConditioning Author:Germaine Greer
“In those days, young stars, male and female, were all virgins until married, and if divorced, they returned magically to that condition.” IfsYoungStarsConditionsMarriedFemaleMalesVirginsDivorcedVirginity Author:Shelley Winters
“In many patriarchies, language, as well as cultural tradition, reserve the human condition for the male. With the Indo-European languages this is a nearly inescapable habit of mind, for despite all the customary pretense that 'man' and 'humanity' are terms which apply equally to both sexes, the fact is hardly obscured that in practice, general application favors the male far more often than the female as referent, or even sole referent, for such designations.” MenMindHumansWellsFactsHumanityLanguageSexTermPracticeConditionsHabitFemaleTraditionMalesFavorsDespiteApplicationHuman ConditionSoleReservesPatriarchyPretenseHabits Of MindDesignation Author:Kate Millett
“In much the same way, motherhood has become the essential female experience, valued above all others: giving life is where it's at. Give birth in cities where accommodation is precarious, schools have surrendered the fight and children are subject to the most vicious mental assault through advertising, TV, internet, fizzy drink manufacturers and so on. Without children you will never be fulfilled as a woman, but bringing up kids in decent conditions is almost impossible.” WayGivingChildrenKidsSchoolLife IsFightingCitiesImpossibleConditionsSubjectsTvsBirthInternetDrinkEssentialsFemaleMotherhoodAdvertisingDecentFulfilledAssaultViciousPrecariousAccommodations Author:Virginie Despentes
“The National Socialist state refuses to admit female labour in factories merely because such labour is cheap. There is, of course, a certain amount of industrial work which can only be performed by women, but an essential condition is that this sort of work should not be injurious to health.” ShouldStatesCertainCoursesConditionsAmountEssentialsFemaleRefuseLabourFactoriesSocialist Author:Adolf Hitler
“Madame Bovary is timeless. It is not just about the female condition in France in the 1840s. It's not a simple cautionary tale. Emma is more than a character; she gives us an insight into human nature. With Emma, we are diving into the complexities of Flaubert's psyche.” GivingHumansCharacterSimpleConditionsHuman NatureFemaleInsightTalesFranceComplexityTimelessDivingEmmaCautionary Tales Author:Sophie Barthes
“If you are female, and conditions are otherwise apt, you are supposed to decide whether you want to become a mother by thinking carefully about whether you really want to have a child of your very own, what it would be like to be a mother, whether this is something you really want and will be happy with, etc. In general, you are supposed to evaluate whether you should have a child largely on the basis of what you think it will be like for you to have a child.” IfsThinkingWantShouldChildrenWould BeMotherConditionsFemaleShould HaveBasesEtcEvaluate Author:L.A. Paul
“You condition a vulnerable boy at puberty to become aroused by brutality. It's the violence, not the nudity. Frankly, I wouldn't mind if every teenage boy had a subscription to Playboy. They'd be looking at attractive naked female bodies while they masturbated, not eviscerated female bodies.” IfsMindBodyBoysViolenceConditionsFemaleNakedVulnerableAttractiveTeenageBrutalityNudityPubertyPlayboyFemale BodySubscription Author:Park Dietz
“On the question of women's sexual freedom or female independence, there are still issues that haven't been worked out. There's an aura of traditional gender roles that is not talked about that really permeates these conversations. There is this vacillation between a desire for independence and having the kinds of sexual freedom that men have and, on the other side, issues about female vulnerability and susceptibility to male aggression and violence. We need more honesty about the actual conditions in which sex is happening.” MenNeedsKindStillsDesireSexSidesRolesIssuesViolenceConditionsHavensHonestyConversationHappeningsFemaleIndependenceMalesGenderTraditionalVulnerabilityAggressionGender RolesAurasSusceptibilityVacillationAggression And Violence Author:Laura Kipnis
“Madness and witchery as well as bestiality are conditions commonly associated with the use of the female voice in public.” WellsUseVoiceConditionsFemaleMadnessFemale VoiceWitchery Author:Anne Carson
“If any of us hopes to survive, she must meet the extremity of the American female condition with immediate and political response. The thoroughly destructive and indefensible subjugation of the majority of Americans cannot continue except at the peril of the entire body politic.” IfsBodyPoliticalWomenConditionsFemaleMajorityResponseDestructivePerilExtremitySubjugation Author:June Jordan