#gender

It was a fact generally acknowledged by all but the most contumacious spirits at the beginning of the seventeenth century that woman was the weaker vessel; weaker than man, that is. ... That was the way God had arranged Creation, sanctified in the words of the Apostle. ... Under the common law of England at the accession of King James I, no female had any rights at all (if some were allowed by custom). As an unmarried woman her rights were swallowed up in her father's, and she was his to dispose of in marriage at will. Once she was married her property became absolutely that of her husband. What of those who did not marry? Common law met that problem blandly by not recognizing it. In the words of The Lawes Resolutions [the leading 17th century compendium on women's legal status]: 'All of them are understood either married or to be married.' In 1603 England, in short, still lived in a world governed by feudal law, where a wife passed from the guardianship of her father to her husband; her husband also stood in relation to her as a feudal lord. ↗

— Antonia Fraser

#common-law #empowerment #fathers #feminism #feudalism

The Statue of Liberty's gender changed nothing. It was the same here as anywhere: men and their wars. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

#war #change

Whether born from experience or inherent physiological or cultural differences our gender and national origins may and will make a difference in our judging. ↗

— Sonia Sotomayor

#cultural #difference #differences #experience #gender

I don't care what gender someone is, or what race they are. Those things don't matter to me. ↗

— Louie Gohmert

#gender #i #matter #me #race

Love is pure and true; love knows no gender. ↗

— Tori Spelling

#knows #love #love is #pure #true

In a 1999 paper, Reiner indicates that his data show "that with time and age, children may well know what their gender is, regardless of any and all information and child-rearing to the contrary. They seem to be quite capable of telling us who they are, and we can observe how they act and function even before they tell us. ↗

— Deborah Rudacille

#intersex #age

I was used to being perceived as having a good attitude. Self-control, self-effacement, self-denial. People like this, especially in girls. ↗

— Stephanie Grant

#attitude

Some women have become far too proscriptive of other women's pleasures and private arrangements, and the definition of feminism has become ideologically overloaded. ↗

— Naomi Wolf

#change

It is a form of generational narcissism to change texts to suit one's own needs. ↗

— Luke Timothy Johnson

#political-correctness #change

The Christian versions of the household codes were clearly progressive for their time, but does that mean they have the last word, that Christians in changing places and times cannot progress further? ↗

— Rachel Held Evans

#gender-roles #progress #change