Femininity is wearing shoes that make it difficult to run, skirts that inhibit movement, and underclothes that interfere with blood circulation. It can hardly be coincidental that the clothes men find most flattering on a woman are precisely those that make it most difficult for her to defend herself against aggression. Anonymous
You can't beat women anyhow and that if you are wise or dislike trouble and uproar you don't even try to.
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William Faulkner
With boys there was a fundamental assumption that they had a right to be there –Â not always, but more often than not. With girls, 'Why her?' came up so quickly.
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Helen Oyeyemi
Gender mattered a whole lot less to Shakespeare than it seems to matter to us.
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John Irving
Look, girls. It is important to all of us that we win this game, right? Well, when it comes to athletics, boys are simply better suited than girls. It’s a fact of nature that no one can change. I’m sorry, but maybe you can play...
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Francine Pascal
Woman is not born: she is made. In the making, her humanity is destroyed. She becomes symbol of this, symbol of that: mother of the earth, slut of the universe; but she never becomes herself because it is forbidden for her to do so.
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Andrea Dworkin
