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In short, pornography is not about sex. It's about an imbalance of male-female power that allows and even requires sex to be used as a form of aggression. ... But until we finally untangle sexuality and aggression, there will be more pornography and less erotica. There will be little murders in our beds - and very little love.

Gloria Steinem

Sex, Littles, Imbalance

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You will hardly conquer, but conquer you must.
[Lat., Male vincetis, sed vincite.]

Ovid

Conquer, Conquest

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There is no such thing as a heterosexual male, only men who haven't met Oscar Wilde yet.

Oscar Wilde

Men, Oscars, Wilde

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The female population exceeds the male, you know, especially in New England, which accounts for the high state of culture we are in, perhaps.

Louisa May Alcott

Population, Female, Culture

Louisa May Alcott (2015). “Louisa May Alcott Premium Edition - 16 Novels in One Volume: Little Women Trilogy & Other Novels (Illustrated): Moods, The Mysterious Key and What It Opened, An Old Fashioned Girl, Work, Eight Cousins, Rose in Bloom, Under the Lilacs, Jack and Jill, Behind a Mask, The Abbot's Ghost, A Modern Mephistopheles…”, p.1128, e-artnow

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When the Hymalayan peasant meets the he-bear in his pride,
He shouts to scare the monster, who will often turn aside.
But the she-bear thus accosted, rends the peasant tooth and nail,
For the female of the species is more deadly than the male.

Rudyard Kipling

Women, Pride, Scare

"The Female of the Species" st. 1 (1911)

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In the middle-class United States, a veneer of "alternative lifestyles" disguises the reality that, here as everywhere, women's apparent "choices" whether or not to have children are still dependent on the far from neutral will of male legislators, jurists, a male medical and pharmaceutical profession, well-financed lobbies, including the prelates of the Catholic Church, and the political reality that women do not as yet have self-determination over our bodies and still live mostly in ignorance of our authentic physicality, our possible choices, our eroticism itself.

Adrienne Rich

Determination, Children, Ignorance

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Femininity and masculinity are social constructs. Female and male are biological. We don't have to learn to be men or women but we do have to learn to be ladies and gentlemen.

Rita Mae Brown

Men, Gentleman, Female

Rita Mae Brown (2009). “Rita Will: Memoir of a Literary Rabble-Rouser”, p.232, Bantam

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Armies are dependent on youthful male ignorance.

Rita Mae Brown

Ignorance, Army, Militarism

Rita Mae Brown (1982). “Southern discomfort”, Harpercollins

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Publishers are in business to make money, and if your books do well they don't care if you are male, female, or an elephant.

Margaret Atwood

Book, Elephants, Female

Margaret Atwood (2006). “Waltzing Again: New and Selected Conversations with Margaret Atwood”

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Congress is a middle-aged, middle-class, white male power structure ... no wonder it's been so totally unresponsive to the needs of this country.

Bella Abzug

Country, White, Class

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I do believe deeply that all human beings, male and female, are sexual beings, most likely bisexual beings channeled this way and that by cultures terrified of boundary crossings without passports stamped gay or straight.

Robin Morgan

Believe, Gay, Bisexual

Robin Morgan (2014). “The Anatomy of Freedom: Feminism in Four Dimensions”, p.129, Open Road Media

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It is a sad paradox that when male authors impersonate women ... they are said to be dealing with 'cosmic, major concerns' - but when we impersonate ourselves we are said to be writing 'women's fiction' or 'women's poetry.

Erica Jong

Writing, Fiction, Paradox

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[On gay men:] Let me say, a more artistic, appreciative group of people for the arts does not exist ... They are more knowledgeable, more loving of the arts. They make the average male look stupid.

Bette Davis

Art, Stupid, Gay

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Just as the difference in height between males is no longer a realistic issue, now that lawsuits have been substituted for hand-to-hand encounters, so the difference in strength between men and women is no longer worth elaboration in cultural institutions.

Margaret Mead

Men, Hands, Differences

Margaret Mead (1963). “Sex and Temperament in Three Primitive Societies”

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It is of very doubtful value to enlist the gifts of a woman into fields that have been defined as male; it frightens the men, unsexes the women, and muffles and distorts the contribution women could make.

Margaret Mead

Men, Fields, He Man

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It was hard to speed the male child up the stony heights of erudition, but it was harder still to check the female child at the crucial point, and keep her tottering decorously behind her brother.

Agnes Repplier

Education, Brother, Children

Agnes Repplier (1908). “A Happy Half-century: And Other Essays”

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There is, of course, no reason for the existence of the male sex except that one sometimes needs help with moving the piano.

Rebecca West

Sex, Moving, Men

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When those of our army whose voices are likely to coo tell us that the day of sex antagonism is over and that henceforth we only have to advance hand in hand with the male, I do not believe it.

Rebecca West

Sex, Believe, Army

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Idiocy is the female defect ... It is no worse than the male defect, which is lunacy.

Rebecca West

Female, Idiocy, Defects

Rebecca West (2010). “Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: A Journey Through Yugoslavia”, p.7, Open Road Media

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What I expect from my male friends is that they are polite and clean. What I expect from my female friends is unconditional love, the ability to finish my sentences for me when I am sobbing, a complete and total willingness to pour their hearts out to me, and the ability to tell me why the meat thermometer isn't supposed to touch the bone.

Anna Quindlen

Friendship, Women, Heart

Anna Quindlen (2010). “Living Out Loud”, p.32, Ballantine Books

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Nature is a universal that is shareable by all, males and females, men and women, and can thus be of use in mediating between all. The same does not apply for already constructed worlds and cultures. They are neither universal nor easily shareable.

Luce Irigaray

Nature, Men, Female

Luce Irigaray (2008). “Sharing the world”, Continuum Intl Pub Group

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Sometimes, with luck, we find the kind of true friend, male or female, that appears only two or three times in a lucky lifetime, one that will winter us and summer us, grieve, rejoice, and travel with us.

Barbara Holland

Friendship, Summer, True Friend

Barbara Holland (1996). “One's Company: Reflections on Living Alone”

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In the sex-war, thoughtlessness is a weapon of the male, vindictiveness of the female. Both are reciprocally generated, but a woman's desire for revenge outlasts all other emotion. Yet when every unkind word about women has been said, we have still to admit, with Byron, that they are nicer than men. They are more devoted, more unselfish and more emotionally sincere. When the long fuse of cruelty, deceit and revenge is set alight, it is male thoughtlessness which has fired it.

Cyril Connolly

Sex, Revenge, War

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every artist is both male and female, and ... sometimes, the two great elements are in conjunction with him, so that all by himself he suddenly gets the melody and the burst of feeling of a great symphony without any external stimuli.

Ruth St. Denis

Artist, Two, Symphony

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In those days, young stars, male and female, were all virgins until married, and if divorced, they returned magically to that condition.

Shelley Winters

Stars, Female, Married

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