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“As far as I was concerned men were something you had around the place, not particularly interesting, but quite harmless. I had never shown the slightest feeling for them, and apart from my never we...”
“All this pitting of sex against sex, of quality against quality; all this claiming of superiority and imputing of inferiority, belong to the private-school stage of human existence where there are ...”
“gender is not sane. It's not sane to call a rainbow black and white.”
“Any serious shift towards more sustainable societies has to include gender equality.”
“True gender equality in Scotland - and elsewhere - is still some way off.”
“I feel like a feminist is gender equality.”
“We are a model country where gender equality is concerned.”
“I've never treated anyone badly or in a discriminatory way based on their gender, race, religion or sexuality - period.”
“A gender-equal society would be one where the word 'gender' does not exist: where everyone can be themselves.”
“Supposing that originally there was nothing but one creator, how could ordinary binary sexual relations come into being?”
“She must have already forgiven him for leaving her behind. Girls were good at colouring in those disappointing blank spots. I thought of the night before, her exaggerated moans.”
“When women reassert their relationship with the wildish nature, they are gifted with a permanent and internal watcher, a knower, a visionary, an oracle, and inspiratrice, and intuitive, a maker, a ...”
“The Statue of Liberty's gender changed nothing. It was the same here as anywhere: men and their wars.”
“You really work in those conditions?”She, irritated by the contact, pulled her arm away, protesting: “And how do you work, the two of you, how do you work?”They didn’t answer. They worked hard, tha...”
“It is as though they simply cannot contemplate the notion of a short, slight man who dresses and moves like a popular (mis)conception of a homosexual being attractive to millions of women.”
“If the immutable character of sex is contested, perhaps this construct called ‘sex’ is as culturally constructed as gender; indeed, perhaps it was always already gender, with the consequence that t...”
“Griffin Hansbury, who was born female but underwent a sex change after graduating from college, has another well-informed view of the powers of testosterone. “The world just changes,” he said. “The...”
“[In reference to cases of testicular feminization]: “The incredible lesson about our sexual biology is that all men at one point in their fetal development have the capacity to be women. Moreover t...”
“John [the father] kept saying, "You have a penis. That means you’re a boy." One day, Shannon noticed that her son had been in the bathroom an awfully long time and pushed the door open. "He had a p...”
“The role of gender in society is the most complicated thing I’ve ever spent a lot of time learning about, and I’ve spent a lot of time learning about quantum mechanics.”
