#ender

Drag queen is a gender like no other, and with practice I'd learned to rise to it. ↗

— Kate Bornstein

#drag-queen #gender #love

It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple; one must be woman-manly or man-womanly. ... Some marriage of opposites has to be consummated. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#gender #gender-identity #marriage

I was acting like a child. Wanting his full attention. His declarations of love. I wanted to be his little princess, I guess. The one he worshiped and adored. Well, life's not like that. And after thinking it through, I actually wouldn't want it to be. We aren't put together in a marriage to stroke each other's ego. Marriage is a partnership. A blending of two lives working together. That's where the commitment comes in. It's a determination of the head - not the heart. No, I shouldn't say it that way. It still involves the heart. It still is based on love, but it's new kind of love. A mature love. One that doesn't ask, "What will you do for me?" but rather "What can I do for you?" or "What can we do for each other? ↗

— Janette Oke

#the-tender-years #life

La femme mariée est une esclave qu'il faut savoir mettre sur un trône. ↗

— Honoré de Balzac

#marriage #mysogyny #marriage

In politics, If you want anything said, ask a man. If you want anything done, ask a woman. ↗

— Margaret Thatcher

#gender-stereotypes #men #women #men

Men learn to love the woman they are attracted to. Women learn to become attracted to the man they fall in love with. ↗

— Woody Allen

#men-and-women #love

Women have a much better time than men in this world; there are far more things forbidden to them. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#gender-roles #suffrage #womens-rights #men

What’s the worst possible thing you can call a woman? Don’t hold back, now. You’re probably thinking of words like slut, whore, bitch, cunt (I told you not to hold back!), skank. Okay, now, what are the worst things you can call a guy? Fag, girl, bitch, pussy. I’ve even heard the term “mangina.” Notice anything? The worst thing you can call a girl is a girl. The worst thing you can call a guy is a girl. Being a woman is the ultimate insult. Now tell me that’s not royally fucked up. ↗

— Jessica Valenti

#eye-opening #feminism #gender-inequality #insults #men

Of all the nasty outcomes predicted for women's liberation...none was more alarming than the suggestion that women would eventually become just like men. ↗

— Barbara Ehrenreich

#gender #men #women #women-s-liberation #men

He shook his head. "The next time I hear a women going on about how neurotic men are, I'm going to remember this. You tell me you like my body, and what do I say? I say, thank you. Then I tell you I like yours and what do I hear? A long lists of grievances. ↗

— Susan Elizabeth Phillips

#contemporary #gender-stereotypes #romance #sep #men