Sexes Quotes

162 quotes by 140 authors

The word love has by no means the same sense for both sexes, and this is one cause of the serious misunderstandings that divide them. — Simone de Beauvoir
...there is simply nothing so important to a people and its government as how many of them there are, whether their number is growing or… — Daniel Patrick Moynihan
All the acquisitions or losses wrought by nature on individuals, through the influence of the environment in which their race has long been placed, and… — Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
Kerouac opened a million coffee bars and sold a million pairs of Levis to both sexes. Woodstock rises from his pages. — William S. Burroughs
Life for both sexes is arduous, difficult, a perpetual struggle. More than anything... it calls for confidence in oneself...And how can we generate this imponderable… — Virginia Woolf
The chief distinction in the intellectual powers of the two sexes is shown by mans attaining to a higher eminence, in whatever he takes up,… — Charles Darwin
A woman should keep her separateness, should save all her feminine qualities and purify them. In this way she is going, according to her nature,… — Rajneesh
There is more difference within the sexes than between them. — Ivy Compton-Burnett
We have to be careful in this era of radical feminism, not to emphasize an equality of the sexes that leads women to imitate men… — Eva Burrows
It would be futile to attempt to fit women into a masculine pattern of attitudes, skills and abilities and disastrous to force them to suppress… — Arianna Huffington
Book reviewers are little old ladies of both sexes. — John O'Hara
The little rift between the sexes is astonishingly widened by simply teaching one set of catchwords to the girls and another to the boys. — Robert Louis Stevenson
We must not allow ourselves to be deflected by the feminists who are anxious to force us to regard the two sexes as completely equal… — Sigmund Freud
For the record, feminism by definition is: 'The belief that men and women should have equal rights and opportunities. It is the theory of the… — Emma Watson
The care of children ..is infinitely better left to the best trained practitioners of both sexes who have chosen it as a vocation...[This] would further… — Kate Millett
Let there be then no coercion established in society, and the common law of gravity prevailing, the sexes will fall into their proper places. — Judith Sargent Murray
Except for their genitals, I don't know what immutable differences exist between men and women. Perhaps there are some other unchangeable differences; probably there are… — Naomi Weisstein
I have a lot of really wonderful friends who are of very different sexes and genders. — Ezra Miller
Feminist: A person who believes in the social, political and economic equality of the sexes. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
I do not believe in sex distinction in literature, law, politics, or trade-or that modesty and virtue are more becoming to women than to men,… — Belva Ann Lockwood

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