#gender

You can learn more by going to the opera than you ever can by reading Emerson. Like that there are two sexes. ↗

— David Markson

#gender #men #opera #poetry #women

I see fashion as a proclamation or manifestation of identity, so, as long as identities are important, fashion will continue to be important. The link between fashion and identity begins to get real interesting, however, in the case of people who don't fall clearly into a culturally-recognized identity. ↗

— Kate Bornstein

#gender #queer #men

But Tik Tok believes everything's circular, including men and women. He says nature seems to go around and around, and that we all have bits of everything. ↗

— Jodi Lynn Anderson

#circular #gender #nature #tiger-lily #men

they all think men are obsolete. useless. as if we're just some sexual appendix. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#men #sexy-humor #men

Let louts learn [their] lesson and stifle their malicious talk! When they are enjoying themselves on the pub bench, with a jug and a glass and a barman there to serve up, then their chatter and their fun is to pass judmgent on some innocent girl -- would to God they'd drown in a beer barrel for it! ↗

— Anonymous

#gender #inequality #men #misogyny #morality

I don't know why people persist in believing women are inferior, when it is quite clear that men are the more feeble-minded of the two. ↗

— Julia Quinn

#men

Young men list music as their focus and means of identity -- before sport, before TV, before cinema -- while women cite fashion as most important, with music an ambivalent second. ↗

— Lucy O'Brien

#men

Grammar is politics by other means. ↗

— Donna J. Haraway

#gender #grammar #linguistics #politics #nature

Supposing that originally there was nothing but one creator, how could ordinary binary sexual relations come into being? ↗

— Neal Stephenson

#god #gender

Perhaps eggs are like neurons, which also are not replenished in adulthood: they know too much. Eggs must plan the party. Sperm need only to show up- wearing top hat and tails, of course. ↗

— Natalie Angier

#gender #science #sex #science