Gender Identity

Man’s love is of man’s life a thing apart, ’Tis woman’s whole existence.

As long as she thinks of a man, nobody objects to a woman thinking.

Any fool knows men and women think differently at times, but the biggest difference is this. Men forget, but never forgive; women forgive, but never forget.

The principle which regulates the existing social relations between the two sexes—the legal subordination of one sex to the other—is wrong in itself, and now one of the chief hindrances to human improvement.

What is now called the nature of women is an eminently artificial thing—the result of forced repression in some directions, unnatural stimulation in others.

To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow.

Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman.

When a man goes out of the room, he leaves everything in it behind. . . . When a woman goes out she carries everything that happened in the room along with her.

Any woman who chooses to behave like a full human being should be warned that the armies of the status quo will treat her as something of a dirty joke. That’s their natural and first weapon. She will need her sisterhood.

I am the androgyne.

We men have got love well weighed up; our stuff

Homosexuality should not be punishable except to protect children.

Anybody who believes that the way to a man’s heart is through his stomach flunked geography.

Man does not control his own fate. The women in his life do that for him.

Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives’ mouths.

We know of no culture that has said, articulately, that there is no difference between men and women except in the way they contribute to the creation of the next generation.

A living doll, everywhere you look. It can sew, it can cook, It can talk, talk, talk…. My boy, it’s your last resort. Will you marry it, marry it, marry it.

If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.

A real man wants two things: danger and play. Therefore he wants woman as the most dangerous plaything. Man shall be educated for war, and woman for the recreation of the warrior: all else is folly.

One can find women who have never had one love affair, but it is rare indeed to find any who have had only one.

Instead of warning pregnant women not to drink, I think female alcoholics should be told not to fuck.

The psychology of adultery has been falsified by conventional morals, which assume, in monogamous countries, that attraction to one person cannot coexist with a serious affection for another. Everybody knows that this is untrue.

It will need more than the Nineteenth Amendment to convince me that there are no differences between men and women, or that legislation cannot take those differences into account.

 

There’s nought but care on ev’ry han’, In every hour that passes, O: What signifies the life o’ man, An’ ’t were nae for the lasses, O.