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“Standardized personality differences between the sexes are of this order, cultural creations to which each generation, male and female, is trained to conform.”

Order Sex Differences Generations Creation Personality Female Males Conform

Author:Margaret Mead

“There are many other (besides testosterone) behaviour-eliciting hormones fundamental for humen well-being, including estrogen and progesterone in females. The fact that complex behavioural patterns can be triggered by a tiny concentration of moleculas coursing through the bloodstream, and that different animals of the same species generate different amounts of these hormones, is something worth thinking about when it's time to judge such matters as free will, individual responsibility, and law and order.”

“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

“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 Was it linked to a new order in which the female goddesses had been replaced by one male god?”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

“Whatever each individual woman is facing; only she knows her biggest challenge. However, if we add up the problems that affect the biggest numbers of women, then issues having to do with physical safety and reproduction are still the biggest. Female bodies are still the battleground, whether that means restricting freedom, birth control and safe abortion in order to turn them into factories, or abandoning female infants because females are less valuable for everything other than reproduction.”

“As far as male and female are concerned, difference is a biological fact, whereas equality is a political, ethical and social concept. No rule of nature or of social organization says that the sexes have to be the same or do the same things in order to be social, political and economic equals.”

Facts Political Order Social Sex Differences Economic Concepts Concerned Female Organization Males Equality Ethical Social Organization

Author:Alice S Rossi

“In order for me to engage in a revolutionary struggle for collective Black self-determination, I have to engage feminism because that becomes the vehicle by which I project myself as a female into the heart of the struggle, but the heart of the struggle does not begin with feminism. It begins with an understanding of domination and with a critique of domination in all its forms.”

Heart Doe Self Form Order Understanding Black Struggle Feminism Projects Female Determination Revolutionary Collectives Self Determination Vehicle Domination Critique

Author:Bell Hooks

“In order to make a movie it isn't enough to have a script, it isn't enough to have a director, it isn't enough to have a male actor and a female actor, it isn't enough to have financing. You have to have them all at the same instant.”

Enough Order Actors Directors Female Males Scripts Instant Financing

Author:Lester Persky

“The capacity of the female mind for studies of the highest order cannot be doubted, having been sufficiently illustrated by its works of genius, of erudition, and of science.”

Mind Order Study Genius Highest Capacity Female Doubted Erudition Female Mind

Book:1816-1828

Source: 1816-1828

“Women have a thirst for order and beauty as for something physical; there is a strange female power of hating ugliness and waste as good men can only hate sin and bad men virtue.”

Men Love Hate Order Sin Virtue Strange Waste Female Good Man Thirst Ugliness Bad Man Female Power

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“Animals, even plants, lie to each other all the time, and we could restrict the research to them, putting off the real truth about ourselves for the several centuries we need to catch our breath. What is it that enables certain flowers to resemble nubile insects, or opossums to play dead, or female fireflies to change the code of their flashes in order to attract, and then eat, males of a different species?”

Source: Late Night Thoughts on Listening to Mahler's Ninth Symphony