#gender

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

The female mind is certainly a devious one, my lord." Vetinari looked at his secretary in surprise. "Well, of course it is. It has to deal with the male one. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#gender-stereotypes #men-and-women #funny

That one can love another of the same gender, that is what the homophobe really cannot stand. ↗

— Stephen Fry

#cannot #gender #love #really #same

The only feeling that a closer intimacy has created in him for his wife is that of indulgent contempt. As there is no equality between man and woman, so there can be no respect. She is a different being. He must either look up to her as superior to himself, or down upon her as inferior. When a man does the former he is more or less in love, and love to John Ingerfield is an unknown emotion. Her beauty, her charm, her social tact--even while he makes use of them for his own purposes, he despises as the weapons of a weak nature. ↗

— Jerome K. Jerome

#gender-stereotypes #beauty

I didn't want to be discriminated against because of my gender and status. I promised myself I was never going to be treated as a second-class citizen. ↗

— Bianca Jagger

#because #citizen #discriminated #gender #going

I just wish that every responsible and concerned person would step back regardless of race and gender and just take a closer look at what's really going on in the world today, and say enough is enough! ↗

— Lonnie Earl Johnson

#closer #concerned #enough #enough is enough #every

Truth engenders hatred of truth. As soon as it appears, it is the enemy. ↗

— Tertullian

#enemy #engenders #hatred #soon #truth

I thought, transgender people are much worse off than I am. That's why they're willing to risk everything to be who they are. But the older I got, the harder it got to stay in my body. ↗

— Chastity Bono

#body #everything #got #harder #i

The self-esteem of western women is founded on physical being (body mass index, youth, beauty). This creates a tricky emphasis on image, but the internalized locus of self-worth saves lives. Western men are very different. In externalizing the source of their self-esteem, they surrender all emotional independence. (Conquest requires two parties, after all.) A man cannot feel like a man without a partner, corporation, team. Manhood is a game played on the terrain of opposites. It thus follows that male sense of self disintegrates when the Other is absent. ↗

— Antonella Gambotto-Burke

#boys #center #centre #conquest #femininity

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

— Marina Warner

#feminism #gender #grammar #male #grammar