{"quotes":[{"text":"As far as I was concerned men were something you had around the place, not particularly interesting, but quite harmless. I had never shown the slightest feeling for them, and apart from my never wearing a skirt, saw nothing else in common between us.","author":"Jeanette Winterson","tags":["gender","lesbian","tomboy"],"id":1880,"author_id":"Jeanette+Winterson"},{"text":"In reaction against the age-old slogan, 'woman is the weaker vessel,' or the still more offensive, 'woman is a divine creature,' we have, I think, allowed ourselves to drift into asserting that 'a woman is as good as a man,' without always pausing to think what exactly we mean by that. What, I feel, we ought to mean is something so obvious that it is apt to escape attention altogether, viz: (...) that a woman is just as much an ordinary human being as a man, with the same individual preferences, and with just as much right to the tastes and preferences of an individual. What is repugnant to every human being is to be reckoned always as a member of a class and not as an individual person.","author":"Dorothy L. Sayers","tags":["classification","clichés","dignity","discrimination","double-standards","empowerment","feminism","gender","individuality","misogyny","self-determination","social-norms","stereotypes","women"],"id":2459,"author_id":"Dorothy+L.+Sayers"},{"text":"As Atwood concludes after a random and informal sampling, men and women differ markedly in the 'scope of their threatenability': 'Why do men feel threatened by woman?' I asked a male friend of mine....'[M]en are bigger, most of the time...And they have on the average a lot more money and power.' 'They're afraid women will laugh at them,' he said. 'Undercut their world view.' Then I asked some women students in a quickie poetry seminar I was giving, 'Why do women feel threatened by men?' 'They're afraid of being killed,' they said'.","author":"Shuli Barzilai","tags":["gender","humor","men","power","women"],"id":4771,"author_id":"Shuli+Barzilai"},{"text":"[M]en, though they know full well how much women are worth and how great the benefits we bring them, nonetheless seek to destroy us out of envy for our merits. It's just like the crow, when it produces white nestlings: it is so stricken by envy, knowing how black it is itself, that it kills its own offspring out of pique.","author":"Moderata Fonte","tags":["crows","dignity","empowerment","envy","feminism","gender","hypocrisy","imagery","inequality","jealousy","men","merits","misogyny","suppression","ugliness","women","worth"],"id":5753,"author_id":"Moderata+Fonte"},{"text":"JP shouted, 'TELL THEM WHAT YOU JUST DID TO EACH OTHER!'Um,' I said.'We kissed,' the Duke said.'That's kinda gay,' Keun said.'I AM A GIRL.'Yeah, I know, but so is Tobin,' Keun said.","author":"John Green","tags":["gender","humor"],"id":5833,"author_id":"John+Green"},{"text":"I would rather trust a woman's instinct than a man's reason.","author":"Stanley Baldwin","tags":["gender","gender-stereotypes","men-and-women","trust"],"id":7582,"author_id":"Stanley+Baldwin"},{"text":"Now why should that man have fainted? But he did,and right across my path by the wall, so that I had to creep over him every time!","author":"Charlotte Perkins Gilman","tags":["english-literature","feminism","gender","psychology"],"id":8659,"author_id":"Charlotte+Perkins+Gilman"},{"text":"The Statue of Liberty's gender changed nothing. It was the same here as anywhere: men and their wars.","author":"Jeffrey Eugenides","tags":["gender","war"],"id":14017,"author_id":"Jeffrey+Eugenides"},{"text":"Being equal does not mean being the same.","author":"Rebekah Elizabeth Gamble","tags":["culture","gender","identity","lgbtq","race","relationships"],"id":14465,"author_id":"Rebekah+Elizabeth+Gamble"},{"text":"The role of gender in society is the most complicated thing I’ve ever spent a lot of time learning about, and I’ve spent a lot of time learning about quantum mechanics.","author":"Randall Munroe","tags":["gender","nerd","society"],"id":16713,"author_id":"Randall+Munroe"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":518,"pages":52,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}