Sexes Quotes
162 quotes by 140 authors
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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
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...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
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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
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Kerouac opened a million coffee bars and sold a million pairs of Levis to both sexes. Woodstock rises from his pages.
— William S. Burroughs
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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
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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
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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
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There is more difference within the sexes than between them.
— Ivy Compton-Burnett
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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
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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
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Book reviewers are little old ladies of both sexes.
— John O'Hara
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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I have a lot of really wonderful friends who are of very different sexes and genders.
— Ezra Miller
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Feminist: A person who believes in the social, political and economic equality of the sexes.
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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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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