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“Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at. This determines not only most relations between men and women but also the relation of women to themselves. The surveyor of woman in herself is male: the surveyed female. Thus she turns herself into an object - and most particularly an object of vision: a sight.”

Men Looks Turns Vision Watches Objects Men And Women Female Sight Relation Males Determine Men Women Surveyors

Author:John Berger

“When I do all-hands calls - and I do a lot of all-hands calls - and I look out across 50 people, or 5,000 people, I see United States sailors. I do not see male sailors, or female sailors, and I do not think anybody else does, either.”

People Thinking Looks Doe States Hands United United States Female Males Sailor

Author:Ray Mabus

“I never expected to get the Tom Jones treatment and it amazes me that I do. Strangely it's women who throw their underwear at me when I'm performing live. My male fans tend to be quite shy. My female fans are wild. I never know what to do with all the lingerie that lands at my feet. Maybe I should open a shop.”

Knows Should Feet Fans Land Female Males Expected Performing Shops Treatment Shy Toms Underwear Lingerie Performing Live

Author:Ellie Goulding

“Prostitution and robbery are two living protests, respectively female and male, made by the natural state against the social state.”

Made Two States Social Natural Female Males Protest Prostitution Robbery Females And Males

Author:Honore de Balzac

“you know a person is having a severe personality crisis if you see a high school class ring on a finger beyond the first semester in college. Male or female. It's a big sign saying nothing has mattered to my life since senior year.”

Source: Sacred cows-- and other edibles

“Commitment is different in males and females. In females it is a desire to get married and raise a family. In males it means not picking up other women while out with one's girlfriend.”

Mean Different Desire Married Commitment Female Raises Males Girlfriend

Author:Rita Rudner

“In short, pornography is not about sex. It's about an imbalance of male-female power that allows and even requires sex to be used as a form of aggression. ... But until we finally untangle sexuality and aggression, there will be more pornography and less erotica. There will be little murders in our beds - and very little love.”

Littles Form Used Sex Bed Female Murder Males Sexuality Aggression Pornography Imbalance Little Love Male Female Female Power

Author:Gloria Steinem

“The female population exceeds the male, you know, especially in New England, which accounts for the high state of culture we are in, perhaps.”

Knows States Culture Female Accounts England Males Population Exceed New England

Book:Louisa May Alcott Premium Edition - 16 Novels in One Volume: Little Women Trilogy & Other Novels (Illustrated): Moods, The Mysterious Key and What It Opened, An Old Fashioned Girl, Work, Eight Cousins, Rose in Bloom, Under the Lilacs, Jack and Jill, Behind a Mask, The Abbot's Ghost, A Modern Mephistopheles…

Source: Louisa May Alcott Premium Edition - 16 Novels in One Volume: Little Women Trilogy & Other Novels (Illustrated): Moods, The Mysterious Key and What It Opened, An Old Fashioned Girl, Work, Eight Cousins, Rose in Bloom, Under the Lilacs, Jack and Jill, Behind a Mask, The Abbot's Ghost, A Modern Mephistopheles…

“When the Hymalayan peasant meets the he-bear in his pride, He shouts to scare the monster, who will often turn aside. But the she-bear thus accosted, rends the peasant tooth and nail, For the female of the species is more deadly than the male.”

Turns Women Pride Bears Female Species Males Monsters Teeth Scare Nails Peasants

Author:Rudyard Kipling

“Femininity and masculinity are social constructs. Female and male are biological. We don't have to learn to be men or women but we do have to learn to be ladies and gentlemen.”

Men Social Female Males Gentleman Constructs Masculinity Femininity Be A Man Ladies And Gentlemen Females And Males

Book:Rita Will: Memoir of a Literary Rabble-Rouser

Source: Rita Will: Memoir of a Literary Rabble-Rouser

“Publishers are in business to make money, and if your books do well they don't care if you are male, female, or an elephant.”

Ifs Wells Book Care Female Males Don't Care Making Money Elephants Publishers Male Female

Book:Waltzing Again: New and Selected Conversations with Margaret Atwood

Source: Waltzing Again: New and Selected Conversations with Margaret Atwood

“I do believe deeply that all human beings, male and female, are sexual beings, most likely bisexual beings channeled this way and that by cultures terrified of boundary crossings without passports stamped gay or straight.”

Way Believe Humans Culture Human Beings Gay Female Males Sexuality Boundaries Terrified Crossings Passports Bisexual

Book:The Anatomy of Freedom: Feminism in Four Dimensions

Source: The Anatomy of Freedom: Feminism in Four Dimensions

“It was hard to speed the male child up the stony heights of erudition, but it was harder still to check the female child at the crucial point, and keep her tottering decorously behind her brother.”

Children Stills Hard Behinds Education Brother Female Harder Males Speed Checks Inequality Height Crucial Erudition

Book:A Happy Half-century: And Other Essays

Source: A Happy Half-century: And Other Essays

“Idiocy is the female defect ... It is no worse than the male defect, which is lunacy.”

Female Males Defects Idiocy Lunacy

Book:Black lamb and grey falcon: a journey through Yugoslavia

Source: Black lamb and grey falcon: a journey through Yugoslavia

“What I expect from my male friends is that they are polite and clean. What I expect from my female friends is unconditional love, the ability to finish my sentences for me when I am sobbing, a complete and total willingness to pour their hearts out to me, and the ability to tell me why the meat thermometer isn't supposed to touch the bone.”

Heart Women Friendship Ability Female Clean Males Bones Sentences Meat Unconditional Love Willingness Polite Unconditional Sobbing Thermometers Female Friends

Book:Living Out Loud

Source: Living Out Loud

“Nature is a universal that is shareable by all, males and females, men and women, and can thus be of use in mediating between all. The same does not apply for already constructed worlds and cultures. They are neither universal nor easily shareable.”

Men World Doe Use Culture Nature Men And Women Female Universal Males

Book:Sharing the world

Source: Sharing the world

“Sometimes, with luck, we find the kind of true friend, male or female, that appears only two or three times in a lucky lifetime, one that will winter us and summer us, grieve, rejoice, and travel with us.”

Kind Two Sometimes Three Friendship Lucky Summer Female Luck Lifetime Males Winter Grieving Rejoice Three Times True Friend

Book:One's Company: Reflections on Living Alone

Source: One's Company: Reflections on Living Alone

“In the sex-war, thoughtlessness is a weapon of the male, vindictiveness of the female. Both are reciprocally generated, but a woman's desire for revenge outlasts all other emotion. Yet when every unkind word about women has been said, we have still to admit, with Byron, that they are nicer than men. They are more devoted, more unselfish and more emotionally sincere. When the long fuse of cruelty, deceit and revenge is set alight, it is male thoughtlessness which has fired it.”

“every artist is both male and female, and ... sometimes, the two great elements are in conjunction with him, so that all by himself he suddenly gets the melody and the burst of feeling of a great symphony without any external stimuli.”

Two Sometimes Feelings Artist Elements Female Males Melody Symphony Stimulus Conjunctions

Author:Ruth St. Denis

“In those days, young stars, male and female, were all virgins until married, and if divorced, they returned magically to that condition.”

Ifs Young Stars Conditions Married Female Males Virgins Divorced Virginity

Author:Shelley Winters

“Country, blues, rock 'n' roll, these are things that anybody can sing - male, female, person of color. From wherever you are in the world, you can sing this.”

World Persons Country Rocks Color Female Males Rock N Roll Wherever You Are Male Female

Author:Pokey LaFarge

“Everything has to be understood in opposition to something else. For some dang reason, the ego prefers to make one side better than the other, so we choose. And we decide males are better than females, America is better than Canada, Democrats are better than Republicans. And for most people, once this decision is made, it is amazing the amount of blindness they become capable of. They really don't see what's right in front of them. Once you see this, it's an amazing breakthrough, and that is the starting place for moving away from dualistic thinking.”

“I'm interested in the female dom/male sub dynamic, and how superficially it can seem like a total reverse of gender roles and maybe even subversive or something.”

Seems Roles Female Males Gender Reverse Gender Roles Subversive Doms

Author:Marie Calloway

“I think ex-Soviet or Russian-Jewish women are tougher and that comes through. And if they are more pragmatic than the men, it's because they are obliged to be. They have all the female responsibilities and all the male responsibilities.”

Ifs Thinking Men Responsibility He Man Female Males Soviet Exes Obliged Pragmatic

Author:David Bezmozgis

“Contemporary feminism cut itself off from history and bankrupted itself when it spun its puerile, paranoid fantasy of male oppressors and female sex-object victims. Woman is the dominant sex.”

Sex Fantasy Cutting Feminism Objects Female Victim Males Contemporary Dominant Oppressors Paranoid Spun

Author:Camille Paglia

“If combat means living in a ditch, females have biological problems staying in a ditch for 30 days because they get infections... Males are biologically driven to go out and hunt giraffes.”

Ifs Mean Problem Female Males Driven Staying Sexism Combat Hunts Infection Giraffe

Author:Newt Gingrich

“All communication is more or less cross-cultural. We learn to use language as we grow up, and growing up in different parts of the country, having different ethnic, religious, or class backgrounds, even just being male or female - all result in different ways of talking.”

Source: That's not what I meant!: how conversational style makes or breaks your relations with others

“If you're feminist, it means that you've noticed that male ownership of the direction of female lives has been the order of the day for a few thousand years, and it isn't natural.”

Ifs Years Mean Has Beens Order Natural Feminism Thousand Female Males Feminist Sexism Ownership Thousand Years

Book:Just As I Thought

Source: Just As I Thought

“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.”

“Yes. The original argument is defective. Substitute the word 'male' for 'gay,' and you'll see the flaw: 'Male people cannot be normal. If everyone were male starting tomorrow, the human race would die out, so being male cannot be nature's intended way.' Or you could substitute the word 'female.' In either case, the argument makes no sense: Being male or female is perfectly normal.”

People Ifs Way Humans Dies Race Cases Tomorrow Gay Normal Female Argument Originals Males Starting Human Race Flaws Substitutes Defective Perfectly Normal

Author:Marilyn vos Savant

“Even the new feminist research on sex-role socialization and sex differences has sometimes had the unfortunate consequence of creating a new set of stereotypes about what women feel and how women behave. Despite the large amount of overlap between the sexes in most research, the tendency to label and polarize and thus to exaggerate differences remains in much reporting of data, which may, for example, report the mean scores of male and female populations but not the degree of overlap.”

“Some feminist critics debate whether we take our meaning and sense of self from language and in that process become phallocentric ourselves, or if there is a use of language that is, or can be, feminine. Some, like myself, think that language is itself neither male nor female; it is creatively expansive enough to be of use to those who have the wit and art to wrest from it their own significance. Even the dread patriarchs have not found a way to 'own' language any more than they have found a way to 'own' earth (though many seem to believe that both are possible).”

Source: Off the Reservation: Reflections on Boundary-busting Border-crossing Loose Canons

“Women are penalized both for deviating from the masculine norm and for appearing to be masculine. When women try to establish their competence, they are scrutinized for evidence that they lack masculine (instrumental) characteristics as well as for signs that they no longer possess female (expressive) ones. They are taken to fail, in other words, both as a male and as a female.”

Trying Wells Taken Failing Evidence Female Males Characteristics Sexism Norm Masculine Competence Appearing Expressive

Book:Beyond the Double Bind: Women and Leadership

Source: Beyond the Double Bind: Women and Leadership

“certain ancient cavilers have gone so far as to deny that the female sex, as opposed to the male sex, is made in the likeness of God, which likeness they must have taken to be, as far as I can tell, in the beard.”

Made I Can Certain Sex Gone Taken Female Males Ancient Deny Beard

Author:Marie de Gournay

“The human animal ... is ... neither male nor female ... And if I am allowed to jest a little in passing, I have a joke that is not altogether irrelevant: nothing resembles a male cat on the windowsill more than a female cat.”

Ifs Humans Littles Animal Jokes Female Cat Males Passing Passings Irrelevant Jest Human Animal

Author:Marie de Gournay

“there are only two basic ways of structuring the relations between the female and male halves of humanity. All societies are patterned on either a dominator model - in which human hierarchies are ultimately backed up by force or the threat of force - or a partnership model, with variations in between.”

Way Humans Two Humanity Force Half Models Female Relation Threat Males Partnership Hierarchy Variation Females And Males

Book:The Chalice and the Blade: Our History, Our Future

Source: The Chalice and the Blade: Our History, Our Future

“When I made the decision to transition, I honestly had no idea what it would be like for me to live as female. The only thing I knew for sure was that pretending to be male was slowly killing me.”

Made Ideas Would Be Decision Female Males Killing Honestly No Idea Transition Pretending

Book:Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity

Source: Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity

“God hath put no such difference between the Male and Female as man would make.”

Men Differences Female Males Equality

Book:Womens Speaking

Source: Womens Speaking

“What transsexuality emphatically is not is a 'lifestyle,' any more than being male or female is a lifestyle. Gender is many things, but one thing it is surely not is a hobby. What it is, more than anything else, is a fact.”

Facts One Thing Female Males Gender Sexuality Lifestyle Hobbies

Author:Jennifer Finney Boylan

“the way in which a faith community shapes language about God implicity represents what it takes to be the highest good, the profoundest truth, the most appealing beauty. ... While officially it is rightly and consistently said that God is spirit and so beyond identification with either male or female sex, yet the daily language of preaching, worship, catechesis, and instruction conveys a different message: God is male, or at least more like a man than a woman, or at least more fittingly addressed as male than as female.”

Men Way Said Different God Spirit Language Sex Community Shapes Worship Messages Highest Female Males Instruction Consistently Preaching Identification Faith Community

Author:Elizabeth A. Johnson

“From a biological viewpoint, patriarchal religion denied women the natural rights of every other mammalian female: the right to choose her stud, to control the circumstances of her mating, to occupy and govern her own nest, or to refuse all males when preoccupied with the important business of raising her young.”

Important Young Religion Women Natural Rights Circumstances Female Males Refuse Denied Patriarchy Nests Viewpoints Natural Rights Mating Studs

Author:Barbara G. Walker

“Will it be said that the judgment of a male of two years old, is more sage than that of a female's of the same age? I believe the reverse is generally observed to be true. But from that period what partiality! how is the one exalted, and the other depressed, by the contrary modes of education which are adopted! the one is taught to aspire, and the other is early confined and limited. As their years increase, the sister must be wholly domesticated, while the brother is led by the hand through all the flowery paths of science.”

Source: Selected Writings of Judith Sargent Murray

“Carry your Bible and live by it. There's a better chance that you will stay married if that much is true for either one of you - male or female.”

Ifs Chance Married Female Males Live By

Author:Phil Robertson

“Throughout my life, I have always supported the human being in his humanism and I have supported the oppressed. I think it is the person's right to live his freedom and it is her and his right to face the injustice imposed on each by revolting against it, using his practical, realistic and available means to end the oppressor's injustice toward him, whether it is an individual, a community, a nation, or a state; whether male or female.”

Thinking Humans Mean Persons Ends States Faces Individual Nations Community Human Beings Female Males Injustice Humanism Available Practicals Realistic Oppressed Oppressors

Author:Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah

“It's difficult to make a movie about a complicated, non-traditional female character. We see a lot more movies with male characters who are at that point in their lives, but not that many about females.”

Character Difficult Female Males Complicated Traditional Female Characters

Author:Megan Griffiths

“Playing in Wembley Stadium in front of 83-some-thousand fans to win a gold medal was unreal. I think, male or female, that was a record number.”

Thinking Winning Numbers Records Fans Fronts Thousand Female Gold Males Medal Unreal Stadiums Gold Medals

Author:Carli Lloyd

“This monopoly over language is one of the means by which males have ensured their own primacy, and consequently have ensured the invisibility or 'other' nature of females.”

Mean Language Female Males Monopoly Invisibility Primacy

Author:Dale Spender

“Female authors were still using male names when I was young, or they were neatly shoehorned into womens books except for those few that men could always point at when the disparity was pointed out.”

Men Stills Book Young Names Female Males Disparity

Author:Sherwood Smith

“A woman has the right to run for election whether she's male or female!”

Running Female Election Males

Author:Muammar al-Gaddafi

“I'd love to see more equal representation of female and male cartoonists on the comics page.”

Equal Pages Female Males Comic Representation Glowing Cartoonist Females And Males

Author:Cathy Guisewite