Gender sayings
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- Jane Austen99◆ I do not think, sir, you have any right to command me, merely because you are older than I, or because you have seen more of the world than I have; your claim to superiority depends on the use you have made of your time and experience.
- Charlotte Bront?99◆ I was not ladylike, nor was I manly. I was something else altogether. There were so many different ways to be beautiful.
- Michael Cunningham99◆ I am not an angel,' I asserted; 'and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself. Mr. Rochester, you must neither expect nor exact anything celestial of me - for you will not get it, any more than I shall get it of you: which I do not at all anticipate.
- Charlotte Bront?99◆ As long as she thinks of a man, nobody objects to a woman thinking.
- Virginia Woolf99◆ A woman knows very well that, though a wit sends her his poems, praises her judgment, solicits her criticism, and drinks her tea, this by no means signifies that he respects her opinions, admires her understanding, or will refuse, though the rapier is denied him, to run through the body with his pen.
- Virginia Woolf99◆ Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.
- Virginia Woolf99◆ I do not wish them [women] to have power over men; but over themselves.
- Mary Wollstonecraft99◆ Wherever you find a great man, you will find a great mother or a great wife standing behind him -- or so they used to say. It would be interesting to know how many great women have had great fathers and husbands behind them.
- Dorothy L. Sayers99◆ I would rather trust a woman's instinct than a man's reason.
- Stanley Baldwin99◆ My own sex, I hope, will excuse me, if I treat them like rational creatures, instead of flattering their fascinating graces, and viewing them as if they were in a state of perpetual childhood, unable to stand alone.
- Mary Wollstonecraft99◆ Last night I was seriously considering whether I was a bisexual or not but I don't think so though I'm not sure if I'd like to be and argh I don't think there's anything wrong with that, if you like a person, you like the person, not their genitals.
- Jess C. Scott99◆ The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.
- Virginia Woolf99◆ A girl's got to use what she's given and I'm not going to make a guy drool the way a Britney video does. So I take it to extremes. I don't say I dress sexily on stage - what I do is so extreme. It's meant to make guys think: ‘I don't know if this is sexy or just weird.
- Lady Gaga99◆ Do you really believe ... that everything historians tell us about men – or about women – is actually true? You ought to consider the fact that these histories have been written by men, who never tell the truth except by accident.
- Moderata Fonte99
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