Ruth believes that boys are not found around stables because what they like is taking things apart and putting them together again, and for this purpose horses are not so satisfactory as cars, motorcycles, and even bicycles, while girls adore horses because they are biological and have functions.
Wallace StegnerTags: gender
In the grammar of the phallus -- the I, I, I -- [woman] can't utter female experience.
Nancy MairsTags: gender language feminism
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 WolfTags: gender
I had a romance novel inside me, but I paid three sailors to beat it out of me with steel pipes.
Patton OswaltTags: humor gender writing romance violence femininity romance-novels masculinity sailors
If you want to see a man come to his senses, try something like, Do you happen to carry a rubber in your wallet? Did I mention I'm not on the pill?
Catherine Ryan HydeTags: gender sex responsibility
If art is not to be life-enhancing, what is it to be? Half the world is feminine--why is there resentment at a female-oriented art? Nobody asks The Tale of Genji to be masculine! Women certainly learn a lot from books oriented toward a masculine world. Why is not the reverse also true? Or are men really so afraid of women's creativity (because they are not themselves at the center of creation, cannot bear children) that a woman writer of genius evokes murderous rage, must be brushed aside with a sneer as 'irrelevant'?
May SartonTags: gender women writers creativity femininity masculine-feminine
The fundamental condition of man is his verticality.
Laura FraserTags: gender
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'BrienTags: gender
When I was a girl
the books I read were by men.
Tags: gender
Supposing that originally there was nothing but one creator, how could ordinary binary sexual relations come into being?
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