The human animal ... is ... neither male nor female ... And if I am allowed to jest a little in passing,… — Marie de Gournay Copy Share Image
The truth is, a man can choose to objectify a woman whether she’s wearing a bikini or a burqa. We don’t stop… — Rachel Held Evans Copy Share Image
Yin and yang, male and female, strong and weak, rigid and tender, heaven and earth, light and darkness, thunder and lightning, cold… — Confucius Copy Share Image
A military audience is kind of weird. Pretty much how you would imagine a troop of males that haven't seen a female… — Missy Higgins Copy Share Image
Employers should not be able to impose their religious beliefs on female employees, ignoring their individual health decisions and denying their right… — Dina Titus Copy Share Image
Shaka Zulu had an all-female force of fighters. Women have been part of every resistance movement. Women dressed as men and went… — Kameron Hurley Copy Share Image
Not getting girls is the story of my life. I have always had a bit of a tough time with the ladies.… — Josh Peck Copy Share Image
A male usually had made up his mind before you began to talk to him -so why bother?- but a female, because… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
Until quite recently I've been wholly cut off from [the Shias] because their tenets forbid them to look upon an unveiled woman… — Gertrude Bell Copy Share Image
What Women's Lib might achieve if their 'consciousness raising' - or in plain English, brainwashing- campaign succeeds is a society whose members… — Arianna Huffington Copy Share Image
Women are penalized both for deviating from the masculine norm and for appearing to be masculine. When women try to establish their… — Kathleen Hall Jamieson Copy Share Image
It has been our experience that women usually prefer thin, undernourished, flatchested females, dressed to the teeth, as a concept of "feminine… — Hugh Hefner Copy Share Image
The 19th century Mormons, including some of my ancestors, were not eager to practice plural marriage. They followed the example of Brigham… — Dallin H. Oaks Copy Share Image
In order for me to engage in a revolutionary struggle for collective Black self-determination, I have to engage feminism because that becomes… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
In my early 20s, I had this idea that I was going to front a band, like Robert Plant of Led Zeppelin.… — Pat Benatar Copy Share Image
Should or can there be a single standard of behavior for both sexes? Is there such a thing as a biologically rooted… — Phyllis Chesler Copy Share Image
The vast literature concerning whistleblowers shows that, far from weird extremists, they are really quite ordinary people: male and female, young and… — Margaret Heffernan Copy Share Image
I am comforted by the fact that I find a real range of female bodies beautiful, and I hope that other people… — Lena Dunham Copy Share Image
All humans are part male and part female. The other side must be explored to gain complete understanding ofourselves and the world… — Billy Corgan Copy Share Image
All leaders, male or female, innately possess feminine qualities like empathy, candor and vulnerability - the difference lies in which leaders choose… — John Gerzema Copy Share Image
We, who have had tender, perfect mothers, would like to make it law that the other kind should always be called 'she-parents,'… — Florence L. Barclay Copy Share Image
I've been pitching a show of five female stand-up comedians through the generations, from Phyllis Diller to Amy Schumer, so when I… — Wendy Liebman Copy Share Image
If, Sir, I possessed the power of conveying unlimited sexual attraction through the potency of my voice, I would not be reduced… — Gilbert Harding Copy Share Image
An unprecedented number of uniformed males, marching, parading and engaging in mock battles in every region of Great Britain brought a pleasant… — Linda Colley Copy Share Image
“For thousands of years, the dumb, uncivilized, stone-age society has reduced women to mere prizes to be won, objects to be shown… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Sure, there are times when the guys talk about playing football in school and I can't relate to that, but I can… — Megan Alexander Copy Share Image
Masculinity cannot exist without femininity. On its own, masculinity has no meaning, because it is but one half of a set of… — Sheila Jeffreys Copy Share Image
People didn't really take white rappers seriously until Eminem, because he was better than everybody. Like female emcees, you need to be… — Talib Kweli Copy Share Image
No matter what the genre, I want to see me and my friends. I want to see reality. I want to see… — Drew Barrymore Copy Share Image
Feminine traits are called weaknesses. People joke about them; fools ridicule them; but reasonable persons see very well that those traits are… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
The big lamas coming from Tibet, Ladakh, India - everywhere - have been very friendly. But I don't figure in their world.… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
A third volume of Memoirs is really a bold undertaking ... I cannot, like a certain female writer, say, I hope if… — Laetitia Pilkington Copy Share Image
We throw at female artists this expectation that their work has to speak to the female experience. And if it doesn't, you're… — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
Readers understand that the books celebrate female power. In the romance novel, the woman always wins. With courage, intelligence and gentleness she… — Jayne Ann Krentz Copy Share Image
The first class opposition that appears in history coincides with the development of the antagonism between man and woman in monogamous marriage,… — Friedrich Engels Copy Share Image
Because I didn't have any queer, lesbian, female role models I hated my own femininity and had to look deep within myself… — Beth Ditto Copy Share Image
No female - young, old, black or white - could ever play the knight-on-charger with meager experience. If she presented herself as… — Froma Harrop Copy Share Image
Well a lot of females complain about getting into the business, like men producers always wanna get (in bed) with them before,… — Lady Saw Copy Share Image
If Lacan presumes that female homosexuality issues from a disappointed heterosexuality, as observation is said to show, could it not be equally… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
Whatever you got you have to accentuate. I ran my female card up and down the ladder my whole career, because I… — Barbara Corcoran Copy Share Image