The Two Sexes Quotes

#1. The first symptom of true love in a man is timidity, in a young woman, boldness. This is surprising, and yet nothing is more simple. It is the two sexes tending to approach each other and assuming each the other's qualities.

Victor Hugo

#2. We must not allow ourselves to be deflected by the feminists who are anxious to force us to regard the two sexes as completely equal in position and worth.

Sigmund Freud

#3. Thus, that happiness the two sexes cannot find with the other they will find, one in blind obedience, the other in the most energetic expression of his domination.

Marquis De Sade

#4. Woman has always been man's dependent, if not his slave; the two sexes have never shaped the world in equality. And even today woman is heavily handicapped, though her situation is beginning to change.

Simone De Beauvoir

#5. In America, more than anywhere else in the world, care has been taken constantly to trace clearly distinct spheres of action for the two sexes, and both are required to keep in step, but along paths that are never the same.

Alexis De Tocqueville

#6. The two sexes mutually corrupt and improve each other.

Mary Wollstonecraft

#7. Anyhow, with their extraordinary gift for, and experience in, affairs of the heart from the double point of view, both of the man and of the woman it is not difficult to see that these people have a special work to do as reconcilers and interpreters of the two sexes to each other.

Edward Carpenter

#8. There are the two of you - the two sexes- to love and help one another. It must be a rich and wonderful world

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

#9. The finest people marry the two sexes in their own person.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#10. Throughout the island they wear the same sort of clothes, without any other distinction except what is necessary to distinguish the two sexes and the married and unmarried.

Thomas More

#11. Hegel held that the two sexes were of necessity different, the one being active and the other passive, and of course the female would be the passive one.

Simone De Beauvoir

#12. The differences between the two sexes is one of the important conditions upon which we have built the many varieties of human culture that give human beings dignity and stature.

Margaret Mead

#13. Him & Her are born directly from the ideas behind the Panton Chair. An evolution of the hermaphroditic original, declined into the harmony of the two sexes. They assume sculpted forms like naked models of seduction ... but they feel no shame.

Fabio Novembre

#14. while many moral systems have set restraints on sex almost as severe as any Eugenist could set, they have almost always had the character of securing the fidelity of the two sexes to each other, and leaving the rest to God.

G.K. Chesterton

#15. It's a great shame that the world was organized with two sexes. It makes for a lot of trouble.

Margaret Ayer Barnes

#16. I've always felt there are three sexes: men, women, and actors. And actors combine the worst qualities of the other two.

Peter Biskind

#17. The Phoenix riddle hath more wit By us, we two being one, are it. So to one neutral thing both sexes fit, We die and rise the same, and prove Mysterious by this love.

John Donne

#18. As long as there are two nations, two parties, two sexes or even two people there are going to be divisions. And all the talk in the world isn't going to change that. Thank goodness!

Lyn Nofziger

#19. I love the idea of there being two sexes, don't you?

James Thurber

#20. The sexes were made for each other, and only in the wise and loving union of the two is the fullness of health and duty and happiness to be expected.

William Hall

#21. If there are more than two sexes, then so be it and, of course, the assumption that there are two helps shape, as many have argued, the binary logic that underpins much of the history of western philosophy.

Alison Assiter

#22. No practical biologist interested in sexual reproduction would be led to work out the detailed consequences experienced by organisms having three or more sexes; yet what else should he do if he wishes to understand why the sexes are, in fact, always two?

Ronald Fisher

#23. True emancipation ... will have to do away with the absurd notion of the dualism of the sexes, or that man and woman represent two antagonistic worlds.

Emma Goldman

#24. I think competitiveness between two people is still relevant, and the battle of the sexes still intrigues.

Julian Ovenden

#25. Human kind is made up of two sexes, women and men. Is it possible that a mass is improved by the improvement of only one part and the other part is ignored? Is it possible that if half of a mass is tied to earth with chains and the other half can soar into skies?

Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

#26. Most Elizabethan men will shake their heads in disbelief if you suggest the idea of the equality of the sexes. No two men are born equal - some are born rich, some poor; the elder of two brothers will succeed to his father's estates, not the younger - so why should men and women be treated equally?

Ian Mortimer

#27. You can learn more by going to the opera than you ever can by reading Emerson. Like that there are two sexes.

David Markson

#28. The planet is populated by human beings, of which there are only two sexes, and the role of the writer is to explore otherness, other realities. So the idea of a man exploring what it's like to be a woman doesn't strike me as being that wild or crazy an idea.

Yann Martel

#29. Making love is not just becoming as one, or even two, but becoming as a hundred thousand. Desiring-machines or the nonhuman sex: not one or even two sexes, but n sexes.

Gilles Deleuze

#30. On the steps of the Federal Building we ran into Carmencita Ibanez, a classmate of ours and one of the nice things about being a member of a race with two sexes.

Robert A. Heinlein

#31. Marriage ... is the union of two people of different sexes with a view to the mutual possession of each other's sexual attributes for the duration of their lives.

Immanuel Kant