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• The extraordinary gentleness of the adult male with his young dispels all the King Kong mythology.

  Dian Fossey

  Kings, Wildlife, Adults

  Dian Fossey (2000). “Gorillas in the Mist”, p.64, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Yes. The original argument is defective. Substitute the word 'male' for 'gay,' and you'll see the flaw: 'Male people cannot be normal. If everyone were male starting tomorrow, the human race would die out, so being male cannot be nature's intended way.' Or you could substitute the word 'female.' In either case, the argument makes no sense: Being male or female is perfectly normal.

  Marilyn vos Savant

  Gay, Perfectly Normal, Race

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• Within the new self-help books for women, patriarachy and male domination are rarely identified as forces that lead to the oppression, exploitation, and domination of women. Instead, these books suggest that individual relationships between men and women can be changed solely by women making the right choices.

  Bell Hooks

  Book, Men, Self

  bell hooks (2014). “Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black”, p.45, Routledge

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• Even the new feminist research on sex-role socialization and sex differences has sometimes had the unfortunate consequence of creating a new set of stereotypes about what women feel and how women behave. Despite the large amount of overlap between the sexes in most research, the tendency to label and polarize and thus to exaggerate differences remains in much reporting of data, which may, for example, report the mean scores of male and female populations but not the degree of overlap.

  Rosabeth Moss Kanter

  Sex, Mean, Data

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• Now you ask a group of young women on the college campus, 'How many of you are feminists?' Very few will raise their hands because young women don't want to be associated with it anymore because they know it means male-bashing, it means being a victim, and it means being bitter and angry.

  Christina Hoff Sommers

  Mean, College, Hands

  "Has Feminism Gone Too Far?". "Think Tank" with Ben Wattenberg, www.pbs.org. 1995.

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• how many times would a defendant's lawyer enter the courtroom before a session and ask each of the male clerks and paralegals around me, 'Are you the assistant in charge?' while I sat there invisible to him at the head of the table?

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Clerks, Tables, Assistants

  Sonia Sotomayor (2013). “My Beloved World”, Vintage

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• Some feminist critics debate whether we take our meaning and sense of self from language and in that process become phallocentric ourselves, or if there is a use of language that is, or can be, feminine. Some, like myself, think that language is itself neither male nor female; it is creatively expansive enough to be of use to those who have the wit and art to wrest from it their own significance. Even the dread patriarchs have not found a way to 'own' language any more than they have found a way to 'own' earth (though many seem to believe that both are possible).

  Paula Gunn Allen

  Art, Believe, Thinking

  Paula Gunn Allen (1998). “Off the Reservation: Reflections on Boundary-busting Border-crossing Loose Canons”, Boston, Mass. : Beacon Press

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• Women are penalized both for deviating from the masculine norm and for appearing to be masculine. When women try to establish their competence, they are scrutinized for evidence that they lack masculine (instrumental) characteristics as well as for signs that they no longer possess female (expressive) ones. They are taken to fail, in other words, both as a male and as a female.

  Kathleen Hall Jamieson

  Taken, Trying, Female

  Kathleen Hall Jamieson (1995). “Beyond the Double Bind: Women and Leadership”, p.125, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• Give not reins to your inflamed passions: take time and a little delay; impetuosity manages all things badly.

  Statius

  Anger, Passion, Giving

  "Thebaid" by Statius, translated by D. R. Shackleton Bailey in "Loeb Classical Library", Vol. 207, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2003.

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• certain ancient cavilers have gone so far as to deny that the female sex, as opposed to the male sex, is made in the likeness of God, which likeness they must have taken to be, as far as I can tell, in the beard.

  Marie de Gournay

  Sex, Taken, Female

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• The human animal ... is ... neither male nor female ... And if I am allowed to jest a little in passing, I have a joke that is not altogether irrelevant: nothing resembles a male cat on the windowsill more than a female cat.

  Marie de Gournay

  Cat, Animal, Female

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• We are able to speak for ourselves through our music rather than being defined and put into the spotlight in a very male kind of groomed way for an obviously predominantly male audience.

  Shingai Shoniwa

  Spotlight, Able, Way

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• there are only two basic ways of structuring the relations between the female and male halves of humanity. All societies are patterned on either a dominator model - in which human hierarchies are ultimately backed up by force or the threat of force - or a partnership model, with variations in between.

  Riane Eisler

  Two, Humanity, Female

  Riane Tennenhaus Eisler (1987). “The Chalice and the Blade: Our History, Our Future”, Harpercollins

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• When I made the decision to transition, I honestly had no idea what it would be like for me to live as female. The only thing I knew for sure was that pretending to be male was slowly killing me.

  Julia Serano

  Ideas, Decision, Transition

  Julia Serano (2016). “Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity”, p.50, Seal Press

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• The point of women's liberation is not to stand at the door of the male world, beating our fists, and crying, 'Let me in, damn you, let me in!' The point is to walk away from the world and concentrate on creating a new woman.

  Vivian Gornick

  Doors, Damn You, Creating

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• there are two types of the male species of Homo sapiens: men, and Italian men.

  Letitia Baldrige

  Italian, Men, Two

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• God hath put no such difference between the Male and Female as man would make.

  Margaret Fell

  Equality, Men, Differences

  Margaret Fell (1989). “Womens Speaking”

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• No matter how entrenched in the imagination of the average Christian the image of a male God might be, theological tradition has never assigned sex to God.

  Sandra Marie Schneiders

  God, Christian, Sex

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• What transsexuality emphatically is not is a 'lifestyle,' any more than being male or female is a lifestyle. Gender is many things, but one thing it is surely not is a hobby. What it is, more than anything else, is a fact.

  Jennifer Finney Boylan

  Hobbies, Female, Facts

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• I claim that every woman in this century and in our culture sphere who has ventured into male-dominated institutions - 'literature' and 'aesthetics' are such institutions - must have experienced the desire for self-destruction.

  Christa Wolf

  Self, Desire, Culture

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• the way in which a faith community shapes language about God implicity represents what it takes to be the highest good, the profoundest truth, the most appealing beauty. ... While officially it is rightly and consistently said that God is spirit and so beyond identification with either male or female sex, yet the daily language of preaching, worship, catechesis, and instruction conveys a different message: God is male, or at least more like a man than a woman, or at least more fittingly addressed as male than as female.

  Elizabeth A. Johnson

  God, Sex, Men

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• From a biological viewpoint, patriarchal religion denied women the natural rights of every other mammalian female: the right to choose her stud, to control the circumstances of her mating, to occupy and govern her own nest, or to refuse all males when preoccupied with the important business of raising her young.

  Barbara G. Walker

  Women, Rights, Religion

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• Will it be said that the judgment of a male of two years old, is more sage than that of a female's of the same age? I believe the reverse is generally observed to be true. But from that period what partiality! how is the one exalted, and the other depressed, by the contrary modes of education which are adopted! the one is taught to aspire, and the other is early confined and limited. As their years increase, the sister must be wholly domesticated, while the brother is led by the hand through all the flowery paths of science.

  Judith Sargent Murray

  Brother, Believe, Hands

  Judith Sargent Murray, Sharon M. Harris (1995). “Selected Writings of Judith Sargent Murray”, p.6, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• Prostitution means sexual intercourse between a man and a woman aimed at satisfying the man's sexual and the woman's economic needs. It is obvious that sexual needs, even in a male dominated system, are not as urgent and important as economic needs which, if not satisfied, lead to disease and death. Yet society considers the woman's economic need as less vital than the man's sexual one.

  Nawal El Saadawi

  Mean, Men, Disease And Death

  Nawal El Saadawi (2007). “The Hidden Face of Eve: Women in the Arab World, Second Edition”, p.84, Zed Books

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• For a woman to be a lesbian in a male-supremacist, capitalist, misogynist, racist, homophobic, imperialist culture, such as that of North America, is an act of resistance.

  Cheryl Clarke

  America, Culture, Racist

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