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“Eliminate irrelevant and inaccurate comunications about what it means to be male or female, black or white, young or old, rich or poor, disabled or temporarily able-bodied, or to hold a particular belief system.”

Mean Able Young Belief Black White Poor Rich Particular Female Males Irrelevant Disabled Belief Systems Black Or White Rich Or Poor

Author:Rosalie Maggio

“What Women's Lib might achieve if their 'consciousness raising' - or in plain English, brainwashing- campaign succeeds is a society whose members have identical roles but are perpetually at war with themselves; a society of males made neurotic by suppressed masculinity, of females made miserable by having masculine roles thrust upon them that contradict their feminine impulses.”

“Gaming in general is a male thing. It isn't that gaming is designed to exclude women. Everybody who's tried to design a game to interest a large female audience has failed. And I think that has to do with the different thinking processes of men and women.”

Thinking Men Different Games Process Interest Audience Design Men And Women Female Males Gamer Gaming Thinking Process

Author:Gary Gygax

“Again, the male is by nature superior, and the female inferior; and the one rules, and the other is ruled; this principle, of necessity, extends to all mankind.”

Principles Mankind Human Nature Female Males Superiors Inferiors

Book:The Essential Aristotle

Source: The Essential Aristotle

“Imagine living in a world where there is no domination, where females and males are not alike or even always equal, but where a vision of mutuality is the ethos shaping our interaction.”

World Vision Imagine Equal Female Males Interaction Domination Ethos Females And Males

Book:Feminism Is for Everybody: Passionate Politics

Source: Feminism Is for Everybody: Passionate Politics

“I actually prefer female voices to listen to, mostly, but among the male singers whose voices I like are Jeff Buckley, Art Garfunkel, that sort of voice. Contemporary crooners rather than rockers.”

Art Voice Female Males Singers Contemporary Rockers Female Voice

Author:Gregory Maguire

“If you look at most womens writing, women writers will describe women differently from the way male writers describe women. The details that go into a woman writers description of a female character are, perhaps, a little more judgmental. Theyre looking for certain things, because they know what women do to look a certain way.”

Ifs Knows Way Writing Looks Littles Character Certain Female Males Details Description Judgmental Female Characters

Author:Lorrie Moore

“The idea that women are innately gentle is a fantasy, and a historically recent one. Kali, the Hindu goddess of destruction, is depicted as wreathed in male human skulls; the cruel entertainments of the Romans drew audiences as female as they were male; Boudicca led her British troops bloodily into battle.”

Humans Ideas Fantasy Audience Battle Female Destruction Males Entertainment British Gentle Goddess Troops Skulls Kali

Author:Naomi Wolf

“I listen to all kinds of bands. I like rock music, like, male rock bands. I'm more into that instead of female singers. I like Nirvana, Green Day, System Of A Down. I also like punk rock, and I love bands like Coldplay.”

Kind Rocks Band Female Green Males Singers All Kinds Punk Rock Music Punk Rock Rock Bands Female Singers

Author:Avril Lavigne

“It's really important to have life strategies and part of that is sort of knowing where you want to go so you can have a map that helps you to get there. And the traditional way tells us oh we get into school and someone else advises us, helps us, but that often does not work for African Americans female and male. Because what works for the dominant culture often does not work for us.”

Way Want Doe Important Helping School Culture Knowing Female Strategy Males Traditional African American Maps Dominant Advise Dominant Culture Females And Males

Author:Bell Hooks

“If Black women stand strong and our commitment is to ending domination I know that I'm supporting Black males, Black children male and female Black elderly because the bottom line is the struggle to end domination in all its forms.”

Ifs Knows Children Ends Form Strong Black Lines Struggle Commitment Female Males Bottom Black Women Domination Bottom Line Elderly Black Males Stand Strong

Author:Bell Hooks

“The funniest things just come from honesty. We have a tendency to see female characters as representative of something larger than what they are, when male characters are just characters.”

Character Honesty Female Males Tendencies Representatives Female Characters

Author:Elizabeth Meriwether

“I mean, full stops are quite important, aren't they? Yet by contrast to the versatile apostrophe, they are stolid little chaps, to say the least. In fact one might dare to say that while the full stop is the lumpen male of the punctuation world (do one job at a time; do it well; forget about it instantly), the apostrophe is the frantically multi-tasking female, dotting hither and yon, and succumbing to burn-out from all the thankless effort.”

World Wells Mean Littles Important Facts Might Jobs Forget Effort Female Males Dare Contrast Punctuation Burn Out Chaps Versatile Thankless Multi Tasking Succumbing

Author:Lynne Truss

“The female experience is different from that of the male, and if, as a male writer, you cannot accept that basic premise, then you will never, ever, be able to write women well.”

Ifs Writing Wells Different Able Accepting Female Males Premises

Author:Greg Rucka

“Without aging white males, I doubt the 'New York Times' would survive. How many young people, females, Hispanics and blacks subscribe to the 'New York Times?'”

People Young White Doubt New York Female Aging Males New York Times

Author:Dennis Prager

“Obviously, the issue for the Left isn't aging white males; it is conservatives, whether they are young or old, white or nonwhite, male or female. If female aborigines were conservative, the Left would have a problem with female aborigines.”

Ifs Problem Young Left White Issues Female Aging Males Conservative

Author:Dennis Prager

“Thus, after a period of about two thousand years the greatest crime became to worship a god other than the God of Moses, whereas injustice became a minor sin. I began to ask myself how this change had come about. Was it linked to a new order in which the female goddesses had been replaced by one male god?”

Years Two Order Asks Sin Crime Periods Thousand Worship Female Males Injustice Goddess Minors Replaced Thousand Years Linked Moses

Book:Walking through Fire: The Later Years of Nawal El Saadawi

Source: Walking through Fire: The Later Years of Nawal El Saadawi

“Testosterone is a sex hormone, and I think it is the most social of hormones. The major social effect of testosterone is to orient us toward issues of sex and power. By the end of puberty testosterone levels in males are 8 to 10 times higher than in females, but decrease with age.”

Thinking Ends Age Social Sex Levels Issues Effects Higher Majors Female Males Decrease Hormones Puberty Testosterone

Author:James McBride

“Male figure skating is different than female figure skating; we're not America's sweetheart.”

Different America Sports Figures Female Males Skating Figure Skating Sweetheart

Author:Scott Hamilton

“I think that Shakespeare had his male side and his female side extremely well developed. And this was a great quality of the Elizabethan, all-around Renaissance man. They were not afraid of their male side and their female side co-existing. This somewhere along the line got lost. And then it got misunderstood.”

Thinking Men Wells Lost Sides Lines Quality Female Males Not Afraid Misunderstood Renaissance Great Qualities Renaissance Man Elizabethan

Author:Ben Kingsley

“In language gender is particularly confusing. Why, please, should a table be male in German, female in French, and castrated in English?”

Should Home Language Please Travel Female Tables Males Gender Confusing

Book:Marlene Dietrich's ABC.

Source: Marlene Dietrich's ABC.

“The place whereon the priest formerly raveled out the small intestine of the sacrificial victim for purposes of divination and cooked its flesh for the gods. The word is now seldom used, except with reference to the sacrifice of their liberty and peace by a male and a female fool.”

Used Purpose Liberty Sacrifice Atheism Fool Female Victim Males Positive Atheism Flesh Priests Intestines

Book:Ambrose Bierce: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs

Source: Ambrose Bierce: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs

“Hmm, can I be obvious and say there is probably a double standard for male vs. female directors? Sadly, I think that's actually the case. And it probably stems from the fact that there are proportionately so many fewer women directors than men ones that each project is perhaps more closely scrutinized for its content.”

Thinking Men Facts Cases Directors Projects Standards Female Males Obvious Fewer Stem Double Standard Hmm

Author:Lynn Shelton

“People have this idea that nature dictates a sort of 1950s sitcom version of what males and females are like. That is just not the case in the insect world.”

People World Ideas Cases Female Males Versions Insects Sitcom

Author:Marlene Zuk

“I don't know who are the men and who are the women. In French I used to say "je suis un femme et une homme." That is to say a feminine male and a masculine female. A she man and a he woman. What I am interested in is developing a singularity, which would be my own.”

Knows Men Would Be Used My Own He Man Female Males Developing Feminine Masculine Singularity Femme

Author:Orlan

“In our culture, the Oedipal drama succeeds in making us assume either a male or female sexual position. Certainly this is an ancient construct that's rapidly coming apart.”

Culture Position Drama Succeed Female Assuming Males Ancient Constructs

Author:John Maus

“The mind is the enemy of intuition, according to many New Age adherents, but I don't buy that. I look at everything in terms of polarities - two ends of the same continuum. Young/old, male/female, individuality/conformity, work/play, freedom/constraint, right/left, day/night, life/death, rational/emotional, and so on.”

“I say that male and female are cast in the same mold; except for education and habits, the difference is not great.”

Men Differences Education Habit Men And Women Female Males Casts Great Men Mold

Author:Michel de Montaigne

“Unbounded hopes were placed on each successive extension of the electoral franchise, culminating in the enfranchisement of women.These hopes have been disappointed, because the voters, male and female, being politically untrained and uneducated, have (a) no grasp of constructive measures; (b) loathe taxation as such; (c) dislike being governed at all; and (d) dread and resent any extension of official interference as an encroachment on their personal liberty.”

“No longer is the female destined solely for the home and the rearing of the family and only the male for the marketplace and the world of ideas.”

World Ideas Home Female Males Destined Marketplace

Author:William J. Brennan

“...black women write differently from white women. This is the most marked difference of all those combinations of black and white, male and female. It's not so much that women write differently from men, but that black women write differently from white women. Black men don't write very differently from white men.”

Men Writing Black Differences White Female Males Combination Black And White White Man Black Women

Book:Conversations with Toni Morrison

Source: Conversations with Toni Morrison

“I'm totally into Taylor Swift. I think she has super-clever lyrics, and I love that she writes her own music. Some of the themes she writes about are stuff I wish was there for me when I was in high school, and I'm so happy she really cares about her female fans. She's not catering to a male audience and is writing music for other girls.”

Thinking Writing Care School Girl Wish Stuff Audience Fans High School Female Males Clever Theme Other Girl Writing Music Catering

Author:Kathleen Hanna

“What! Did Sir W[alter] R[aleigh] believe that a male and female ounce (and, if so, why not two tigers and lions, etc?) would have produced, in a course of generations, a cat, or a cat a lion? This is Darwinizing with a vengeance.”

Ifs Believe Two Courses Generations Female Cat Males Etc Why Not Lions Tigers Vengeance

Author:Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“Jail sentences have many functions, but one is surely to send a message about what our society abhors and what it values. This week, the equation was twofold: female infidelity twice as bad as male abuse, the life of a woman half as valuable as that of a man. The killing of the woman taken in adultery has a long history and survives today in many cultures. One of those is our own.”

Men Long Today Law Values Culture Half Taken Week Messages Female Abuse Function Males Killing Injustice Valuable Sentences Our Society Jail Misogyny Infidelity Equations Adultery

Author:Anna Quindlen

“I conclude that the musical notes and rhythms were first acquired by the male or female progenitors of mankind for the sake of charming the opposite sex.”

Firsts Sex Music Mankind Female Opposites Notes Males Musical Sake Rhythm Charming Musical Notes

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Charles Darwin (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Charles Darwin (Illustrated)

“Rearing a family is probably the most difficult job in the world. It resembles two business firms merging their respective resources to make a single product. All the potential headaches of that operation are present when an adult male and an adult female join to steer a child from infancy to adulthood.”

World Children Two Jobs Difficult Products Adults Resources Female Males Firm Operations Adulthood Steers Infancy Headache Merging

Book:The new peoplemaking

Source: The new peoplemaking

“Families and societies are small and large versions of one another. Both are made up of people who have to work together, whose destinies are tied up with one another. Each features the components of a relationship: leaders perform roles relative to the led, the young to the old, and male to female; and each is involved with the process of decision-making, use of authority, and the seeking of common goals.”

Source: The new peoplemaking

“I prize the purity of his character as highly as I do that of hers. As a moral being, whatever it is morally wrong for her to do,it is morally wrong for him to do. The fallacious doctrine of male and female virtues has well nigh ruined all that is morally great and lovely in his character: he has been quite as deep a sufferer by it as woman, though mostly in different respects and by other processes.”

Wells Has Beens Different Character Process Moral Virtue Morality Female Males Lovely Doctrine Purity Prize Ruined Sufferers

Author:Angelina Grimke

“In colleges, there are no gender separations in courses of study, and students can freely choose their majors. There are no male and female math classes. But women generally choose college courses that pay less in the labor market. Those are the choices that women themselves make. Those choices contribute to the pay gap.”

Source: Phyllis Schlafly: Volume I

“I would love to play Nefertiti or Cleopatra or the Queen of Sheba. We preserve more male history than we do female. We have to preserve [female history]. No more complaining. We have to do it.”

Play Community Leadership Justice History Generations Equal Ethics Female Strategy Males Complaining Ideology Preserves Queens Equal Rights Nefertiti

Author:Zoe Saldana

“I ask you ... to recognize that AIDS virus is not a political creature. It does not care whether you are Democrat or Republican; it does not ask whether you are black or white, male or female, gay or straight, young or old.”

Doe Care Young Political Asks Black White Health Republican Gay Creatures Female Democrat Males Aids Viruses Black Or White

Author:Mary Fisher

“I'm pretty open. I'm not afraid of men. I'm not afraid of women. I'm not afraid of sex and sexuality. It's part of me, and it comes out in the photograph. It's as if at that moment when I'm taking pictures, I'm not a man and I'm not a woman. If I see a moment that seems true to me, that seems honest, whether it's female or male, it's part of me as well.”

Ifs Men Wells Moments Seems Sex Honest Female Males Photograph Sexuality That Moment Not Afraid Taking Pictures

Author:Mario Sorrenti

“When you can find a strong character and a director that does want to protect the integrity of all characters, female and male, then you have a good deal.”

Want Doe Character Strong Deals Integrity Directors Protect Female Males Strong Character Females And Males

Author:Amber Heard

“A female's career as an actor is very different from a male's career as an actor. That's just the way it is. So, I'm fascinated by really strong male careers that have inspired me, and also really incredible male roles.”

Way Different Actors Strong Careers Roles Female Inspired Males Incredibles Fascinated

Author:Abbie Cornish

“And so when the essential idea of love is lost there comes talk of fidelity. Actually, the only possible basis for two beings, male and female, to relate to each other is to grant each other total freedom.”

Two Ideas Lost Love Is Essentials Female Bases Males Relate Grants Fidelity Love Is Lost

Author:Alan Watts

“The only sexism involved in the Miers nomination is the administration's claim that once they decided they wanted a woman, Miers was the best they could do. Let me just say, if the top male lawyer in the country is John Roberts and the top female lawyer is Harriet Miers, we may as well stop allowing girls to go to law school.”

Ifs Wells May Country Wanted School Law Girl Involved Female Decided Let Me Claims Males Lawyer Administration Allowing Sexism Nominations Law School

Author:Ann Coulter

“When gender comes down upon us, male or female, it comes as a restriction.”

Female Males Gender Restriction

Author:Gloria Steinem

“The young-old polarization and the male-female polarization are perhaps the two leading stereotypes that imprison people.”

People Two Young Female Males Stereotype Polarization Male Female

Author:Susan Sontag

“The "female culture" has shifted more rapidly than the "male culture"; the image of the go-get 'em woman has yet to be fully matched by the image of the let's take-care-of-the-kids- together man. More important, over the last thirty years, men's underlying feelings about taking responsibility at home have changed much less than women's feelings have changed about forging some kind of identity at work.”

“Three factors--the belief that child care is female work, the failure of ex-husbands to support their children, and higher male wages at work--have taken the economic rug from under that half of married women who divorce.”

Children Care Three Belief Half Support Taken Economic Higher Husband Married Female Males Divorce Factors Wages Exes Married Women Child Care Ex Husband

Author:Arlie Russell Hochschild

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