275 quotes found
“What all of this suggests is that we need a more complex understandingof identities. If we identify on the basis of race, class, sexuality, orgender alone we cannot make sense of the ways these ide...”
“When gender non-conforming people cross paths with sexually confused and repressed people, shit hits the fan.”
“If sexual physiology provides the pattern for our experience of the world, what is woman's basic metaphor? It is mystery, the hidden. Karen Horney speaks of a girl's inability to see her genitals a...”
“You are a real hermaphrodite, Mafouka, I said. 'That is what our age is supposed to have produced because the tension between the masculine and the feminine has broken down, people are mostly half ...”
“There is abundant scholarship which establishes that the delegitimation of homosexual desire and the production of the naturally heterosexual, properly bi-gendered (unambiguously male or female) po...”
“The effect of legalised prostitution on women outside prostitution is to lower the status of all women. Women are recognised by the state in this system as the appropriate objects of male penetrati...”
“Instead of saying that all gender is this or all gender id that, let's recognize that the word gender has scores of meanings built into it. It's an amalgamation of bodies, identities, and life expe...”
“What is most important is to cease legislating for all lives what is liveable only for some, and similarly, to refrain from proscribing for all lives what is unlivable for some.”
“Thats the funny thing, she said. Men always want to die for something. For someone. I can see the appeal. You do it once and its done. No more worrying, not knowing, about tomorrow and tomorrow and...”
“All of my books are acts of subversion disguised as historical fiction.”
“I quit because I was good, and when youre good and a girl at something, you should be suspicious.Of what?Of what part of yourself you didnt know you were selling.”
“Who are we to say getting incested or abused or violated or any of those things cant have their positive aspects in the long run? You have to be careful of taking a knee-jerk attitude. Having a kn...”
“The first question we usually ask new parents is : Is it a boy or a girl ?.There is a great answer to that one going around : We dont know ; it hasnt told us yet. Personally, I think no question co...”
“I have grown up to be many things, but dainty sure as hell isn't one of them.”
“I was not really surprised by what he was saying. A lot of people felt that way. Especially men. There was a quantity of things that men hated. Or had no use for, as they said. And that was exactly...”
“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, moto...”
“It's imprecise and insufficient, defining the homosexual as a person whose gender expression is at odds with his or her sex.”
“Man will never understand woman and vice versa. We are oil and water. An equal level can never be maintained, as one will always excel where the other doesn't, and that breeds resentment.”
“So please, for the love of gender- go bloom. Or water someone else while they do.”
“The misapprehension about gender performativity is this: that gender is a choice, or that gender is a role, or that gender is a construction that one puts on, as one puts on clothes in the morning,...”
