#gender

There are many different rivers that lead into despair: there's poverty; there's political repression; there's gender apartheid - there's a sense of culture loss; there's religious fanaticism. ↗

— Lawrence Wright

#culture #despair #different #fanaticism #gender

I don't see gender as the most significant fact of human existence. ↗

— Jim Harrison

#fact #gender #human #human existence #i

I'm the result of upbringing, class, race, gender, social prejudices, and economics. So I'm a victim again. A result. ↗

— James Hillman

#class #economics #gender #i #prejudices

American movies are often very good at mining those great underlying myths that make films robustly travel across class, age, gender, culture. ↗

— Tom Hooper

#age #american #american movies #class #culture

What do you fear, lady?" [Aragorn] asked. "A cage," [Éowyn] said. "To stay behind bars, until use and old age accept them, and all chance of doing great deeds is gone beyond recall or desire. ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#fear #gender-roles #age

Men marry women with the hope they will never change. Women marry men with the hope they will change. Invariably they are both disappointed. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#gender-stereotypes #marriage #men-and-women #change

I cant take it like this much longer, Milt," Karen said muffledly into the big CKC shirt with its male smell, allowing herself the luxury of letting the bars all the way down for once, enjoying for just this moment the eternal degradation of being a woman. "I cant take it much longer," she whimpered, tasting it, the eternally caught and held hard in the grasp of some man, the forever humiliated heavy weight it was impossible to squirm out from under, the forever helpless except for the mercy of him who always takes what he wants without any, and that all women learn instinctively not to expect [...] That was all they wanted. That was all any of them wanted. You give them the greatest thing you possess, the most intimate secret, and they --- just take it. Well, let them have it. Let them all have some of it. Let them root and rut and rowel, as if it was no more important than that why were they all so anxious to keep it away from each other? ↗

— James Jones

#gender-politics #men #misanthropy #monogamy #power

We have to have a way of dealing with this that engenders confidence, trust, gives us every chance of getting the right outcome and boosts both sustainability and economic return at the same time. ↗

— John Anderson

#both #chance #confidence #dealing #economic

College women are typically given to declaring for one or the other (in my day, for marriage; now, generally, for careers), and only later finding to their surprise that they must cope with both--while their men may be trying to figure out how to get out of doing both. ↗

— Judith Martin

#gender-roles #miss-manners #equality

But let me tell you, this gender thing is history. You're looking at a guy who sat down with Margaret Thatcher across the table and talked about serious issues. ↗

— George H. W. Bush

#across #down #gender #guy #history