Gender Relations Quotes

#1. The appeal to the 'natural' is one of the most powerful aspects of common-sense thinking but it is a way of understanding social relations which denies history and the possibility of change for the future.

Chris Weedon

#2. ...there is more mercy in God than sin in us.

William Sloane Coffin

#3. I tell yeh, Bright-eyes. Men and women? A bloody mess. Every time.

David Kudler

#4. Without the presence of black people in America, European-Americans would not be "white"
they would be Irish, Italians, Poles, Welsh, and other engaged in class, ethnic, and gender struggles over resources and identity. (p. 107-108)

Cornel West

#5. Gender relationships, which are tough for people to deal with, are key to whether a society orients to domination or partnership in all its relations.

Riane Eisler

#6. She had done the usual trick-been nice. She would never know him. He would never know her. Human relations were all like that, she thought, and the worst were between men and women. Inevitably these were extremely insincere.

Virginia Woolf

#7. Never ask your wife if she still hears from her old pimp.

Johnny Carson

#8. Power relations between men and women must change profoundly, men must be partners in the pursuit of gender equality, in their decision-making roles, as heads of state, CEOs, religious and cultural leaders, and as partners and parents.

Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka

#9. Bless the ladies and their charming inconsistency! They demand to be treated like men, but they react like women.

Elizabeth Peters

#10. Light you shine on others returns twice as bright to shine on you.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#11. All he think about since us married is how to make me mind. He don't want a wife, he want a dog. (Walker 2000: 58)

Alice Walker

#12. Men who are afraid to feel must keep women around to do their feeling for them while dismissing us for the same supposedly "inferior" capacity to feel deeply. But in this way also, men deny themselves their own essential humanity, becoming trapped in dependency and fear.

Audre Lorde

#13. Historians who write about families are usually feminists who think in terms of gender relations.

Jane Ridley

#14. Gender relations are a sad story of men talking trash about women all over the world.

John Darnielle

#15. Education about gender and peace is important. Educational strategies to promote peace must consider all relations of dominance.

Widad Akreyi

#16. Supposing that originally there was nothing but one creator, how could ordinary binary sexual relations come into being?

Neal Stephenson

#17. Photography is truth.

Jean-Luc Godard

#18. I remember my mean mouth, I remember how wise I thought I was. But I was not wise then. Now I am wise.

Margaret Atwood

#19. Lovers are not snails; they don't have to protrude from their shells and meet each other halfway. Meet me within your own self.

Jerzy Kosinski

#20. There is no lack in the world. The lack is in you , and if you will stop seeking lack and stop thinking lack ... you will make marvelous demonstrations.

Al Koran

#21. Seventy is wormwood, Seventy is gall But its better to be seventy, Than not alive at all.

Phyllis McGinley

#22. Do we need recourse to a happier state before the law in order to maintain that contemporary gender relations and the punitive production of gender identities are oppressive?

Judith Butler

#23. I'm no great fan of the phallus, and have made my own views known on this subject before, so I do not propose a return to a notion of the phallus as the third term in any and all relations of desire.

Judith Butler

#24. NOTHING LEFT TO LOSE

Lisa McMann