“Two options - male and female - describe every person in the world. Seven billion individual identities simplified into two.”— Sam Killermann, youtube.com
“Gender is the mechanism by which notions of masculine and feminine are produced and naturalized, but gender might very well be the apparatus by which such terms are deconstructed and denaturalized. Indeed, it may be that the very apparatus that seeks to install the norm also works to undermine that…”— Judith Butler, amazon.com
“The kids get it. But the grown-ups do not. While celebrating the diversity of sexual and gender identities, we also need to celebrate tomboys and other girls who fall outside the narrow confines of gender roles. Don’t tell them that they’re not girls. My daughter is happy with her body and comfortab…”— Lisa Selin Davis, mobile.nytimes.com
“But you can only lie about who you are for so long without going crazy.”— Ellen Wittlinger, amazon.com
“People changed lots of other personal things all the time. They dyed their hair and dieted themselves to near death. They took steroids to build muscles and got breast implants and nose jobs so they'd resemble their favorite movie stars. They changed names and majors and jobs and husbands and wives.…”— Ellen Wittlinger, amazon.com
“There are rigid gender roles in the relationship. He expects you to serve, obey and remain at home.”— Wendy Kay, yourtango.com
“A real man or woman is whatever any man or woman is at those times when he or she is living authentically, in accord with his or her true self and temperament. There is no truer definition of your gender than you.”— Elaine N. Aron, amazon.com
“Sex with someone of the same sex. Exploring someone’s body that is similar to yours can be electrifying and even educational as well as opening you up to erotic pleasures you’ve never tried before!”— Rebecca Lowrie, sex.sofeminine.co.uk
“I understood her, trusted her, and loved her as a dear friend. None of that had changed, or could be changed by anything as inconsequential as her gender, or skin color, or sexual orientation.”— Ernest Cline, amazon.com
“Where do you get the right to decide our lives? I'll tell you where. From that little hog's gut that hangs between your legs. Well, let me tell you something... you will need more than that.”— Toni Morrison, amazon.com
“Women are always expected to be the gracious hostess, quick with an anecdote and a sprinkling of laughter at others’ stories. We are always the ones who have to smooth over all the awkward moments in life with soul-crushing pleasantries. We are basically unpaid geishas. But when we do not fulfill th…”— Amy Schumer, amazon.com
“Now there you have a sample of man’s ‘reasoning powers,’ as he calls them. He observes certain facts. For instance, that in all his life he never sees the day that he can satisfy one woman; also, that no woman ever sees the day that she can’t overwork, and defeat, and put out of commission any ten m…”— Mark Twain, amazon.com
“Ugh. Boys. They're like French class--no matter how much I study, I'll never be fluent in the language.”— Jen Calonita, amazon.com
“All that time I had spent readying myself, the articles that taught me life was really just a waiting room until someone noticed you - the boys had spent that time becoming themselves.”— Emma Cline, amazon.com
“Boys are idiots. Girls are idiots, too, of course, but boys are a special kind of idiot. A girl, for instance, will vote for a boy in an election, or go to a movie that's about a boy, or buy a book that features a boy hero (or villain). Boys are much less likely to return the favor. They can't wrap…”— Josh Lieb, amazon.com
“The boys, as they talked to the girls from Marcia Blaine School, stood on the far side of their bicycles holding the handlebars, which established a protective fence of bicycle between the sexes, and the impression that at any moment the boys were likely to be away.”— Muriel Spark, amazon.com
“I think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men. They are far superior and always have been.”— William Golding, amazon.com
“Men are visually aroused by women's bodies and less sensitive to their arousal by women's personalities because they are trained early into that response, while women are less visually aroused and more emotionally aroused because that is their training. This asymmetry in sexual education maintains m…”— Naomi Wolf, amazon.com