Active Quote by Simone de Beauvoir

“In the unfertilised egg not even the concept of femaleness is as yet established. As Hegel justly remarks the sexual relation cannot be referred…

— Simone de Beauvoir

The Hegelian dynamic plays out daily on and off the film sets - women are not lesser beings, but because they are assumed to…

— Padmapriya Janakiraman

“I consider it presumption in anyone to pretend to decide what women are or are not, can or cannot be, by natural constitution. They…

— John Stuart Mill

“Male and female are complementary states, and there is a healthy natural tension between them.”

— Heather E. Heying

“And here it would seem from some ambiguity in her terms that she was censuring both sexes equally, as if she belonged to neither;…

— Anonymous

“In the task God planned for mankind of tending and keeping, serving and protecting God’s creation, one gender wasn’t adequate.”

— Wendy Alsup

The female form provides the solution in which the essence itself is held; she is passio, and acted upon, the male is actio, the…

— Marina Warner

There is more difference within the sexes than between them.

— Ivy Compton-Burnett

Since male and female incarnations are equally necessary for self-knowledge, it is not right to look upon one as being more important than the…

— Meher Baba

The terms 'male' and 'female' must be understood as representing no mere primitive opposition of sex to sex; but as defining two worlds of…

— Laura Riding

In every company, there is not only the active and passive sex, but, in both men and women, a deeper and more important sex…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Male and female represent the two sides of the great radical dualism. But in fact they are perpetually passing into one another. Fluid hardens…

— Margaret Fuller