“But the novels of women were not affected only by the necessarily narrow range of the writer's experience. They showed, at least in the nineteenth century, another characteristic which may be traced to the writer's sex. In Middlemarch and in Jane Eyre we are conscious not merely of the writer's character, as we are conscious of the character of Charles Dickens, but we are conscious of a woman's presence of someone resenting the treatment of her sex and pleading for its rights.” MayCharacterSexNovelRightsCenturyConsciousRangeCharacteristicsTreatmentAffectedJaneNineteenth CenturyDickensPleadingMiddlemarch Book:Selected essays Source: Selected essays
“Sex and love are like tea and milk. They can be mixed or they can be taken straight. Each has certain distinctive characteristics, but when they are combined they form a unique substance.” FormCertainSexTakenUniqueAnd LoveTeaSubstanceCharacteristicsMilkDistinctiveSex And Love Author:Joyce Brothers
“Peace or harmony between the sexes and individuals does not necessarily depend on a superficial equalization of human beings; nor does it call for the elimination of individual traits and peculiarities. The problem that confronts us today, and which the nearest future is to solve, is how to be one's self and yet in oneness with others, to feel deeply with all human beings and still retain one's own characteristic qualities.” FeelsHumansDoeStillsSelfProblemTodayIndividualSexHuman BeingsQualityDependsHarmonySolveOnenessCharacteristicsTraitsSuperficialElimination Book:Anarchism and Other Essays Source: Anarchism and Other Essays
“the term 'androgyny' ... defines a condition under which the characteristics of the sexes, and the human impulses expressed by men and women, are not rigidly assigned. Androgyny seeks to liberate the individual from the confines of the appropriate.” MenHumansIndividualSexTermConditionsMen And WomenGenderImpulseCharacteristicsAppropriateAndrogyny Book:Toward a recognition of androgyny Source: Toward a recognition of androgyny
“The caste system, in all its various forms, is always based on identifiable physical characteristics - sex, color, age.” AgeFormSexColorRacismVariousDiscriminationCharacteristicsBigotryCastesCaste System Author:Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
“The first thing, the very very first thing, "Find out what your greatest characteristic is, your greatest undoing, your central characteristic of unconsciousness." Each one's is different. Somebody is sex-obsessed. In a country like India, where for centuries sex has been repressed, that has become almost a universal characteristic; everybody is obsessed with sex. Somebody is obsessed with anger, and somebody else is obsessed with greed. You have to watch which is your basic obsession.” FirstsHas BeensDifferentCountrySexWatchesCenturyUniversalIndiaGreedObsessionObsessedCharacteristicsRepressedUnconsciousnessUndoing Author:G. I. Gurdjieff
“Images have become our true sex objects. It is this promiscuity and the ubiquity of images, this viral contamination of images which are the fatal characteristics of our culture.” CultureSexObjectsCharacteristicsPromiscuityViralContaminationUbiquity Author:Jean Baudrillard