275 quotes found
“We change our attitudes, our careers, our relationships. Even our age changes minute by minute. We change our politics, our moods, and our sexual preferences. We change our outlook, we change our m...”
“There are more locations than girl and boy, man and woman. Decamping from one does not have to mean climbing into another. Theres plenty of space in between, or beyond the bounds, or all along and ...”
“My conversations with people who are just beginning to understand and include transsexual and transgender people in their plans or programs lean heavily on this. For them, the very fact of a transs...”
“I began to wonder if what makes men walk so lordlike and speak so masterfully is having the love of women. If that was it, Sarah and I would make lords of each other.”
“From the moment we take our first breath (and sometimes even before that, what with sonic imaging technology), the cry Its a boy or Its a girl ushers us into this world. As we grow into adulthood, ...”
“We make assumptions every day about other people's genders without ever seeing their birth certificates, their chromosomes, their genitals, their reproductive systems, their childhood socialization...”
“Many people believe that gender identity...is rooted in biology...Many other people understand that gender is more like language than like biology; that is, while they understand us humans to have ...”
“As has been long observed, men are people, but women are women.”
“Women's deference is rooted not only in their social subordination but also in the substance of their moral concern. Sensitivity to the needs of others and the assumption of responsibility for taki...”
“I won't tolerate vanity in a man, though I will in a woman.”
“Gender, not religion, is the opiate of the masses.”
“A sociocultural environment is not some cunningly contrived thing only exists in social psychology labs. Don't look now, but you're in one right this moment.”
“I actually chafe at describing myself as masculine. For one thing, masculinity itself is such an expansive territory, encompassing boundaries of nationality, race, and class. Most importantly, indi...”
“I might go anywhere and do any magic I pleased if I were Peter, not Prunella.”
“As the Greeks saw it, to be a man was to be defined by your ability to exert power in a world articulated through transcendent forces ultimately beyond human control. The apparent futility of this ...”
“Granddaddy had told me about the wasp that could opt to be male or female while in a larval stage. An interesting thought. I wondered why human children weren't given that option in their grub stag...”
“The need to control others as a prerequisite for male agency presupposed self-control. That imperative, in turn, included both the physical and emotional dimensions of a mans bodily self.”
“It wasn't that dwarfs weren't interested in sex. They saw the vital need for fresh dwarfs to leave their goods to and continue the mining work after they had gone. It was simply that they also saw ...”
“You're free to wear whatever you want, you know ”
“If I hadn't trained Lula Ann properly she wouldn't have known to always cross the street and avoid white boys.”
