Gendered Experiences Quotes

For women's tears are but the sweat of eyes.

The woman's position in the world today is so much harder than a man's that it makes me choke every time I hear a man complain about anything.

Every Black woman in America lives her life somewhere along a wide curve of ancient and unexpressed angers.

It can be exhausting eating a meal cooked by a man. With a woman, it's, Ho hum, pass the beans. A guy, you have to act like he just built the Taj Mahal.

I want to support young girls who are in their 20s now and tell them: You're not just imagining things. It's tough. Everything that a guy says once, you have to say five times.

It's hard to negotiate the present landscape with a brain and a female body.

Men's stories are seen as universal, women's as particular. What women are up against is the battle to not be marginalized.

A man's eroticism is a woman's sexuality.

What are other women really thinking, feeling, experiencing, when they slip away from the gaze and culture of men?

Christ, if he had been a woman, might have been nothing but a great complainer

For men, the answer was always the same and never farther away than the nearest sword. For a woman, a mother, the way was stonier and harder to know.

Sexism is discounting the female experience of powerlessness; the new sexism is discounting the male experience of powerlessness.

My research suggests that men and women may speak different languages that they assume are the same, using similar words to encode disparate experiences of self and social relationships. Because these languages share an overlapping moral vocabulary, they contain a propensity for systematic mistranslation.

Don't you know girls have to fool people every day of their lives if they want to get anywhere?

Perhaps there are only a few women who experience without deception the overwhelming intoxication of the senses which they expectfrom their encounters with men, which they feel bound to expect because of the fuss made about it in novels, written by men.

What intrigues me is the difference in how women experience power, and how men do.

As I looked more carefully at the listening matrix I saw that during the past twenty years we had taken a magnifying glass to the first of these four quadrants, the female experience of powerlessness. I saw I was subconsciously making a false assumption: The more deeply I understood women's experience of powerlessness, the more I assumed men had the power women did not have. In fact, what I was understanding was the female experience of male power.

I have a rule for working out if the root problem of something is, in fact, sexism. And it is this: asking 'Are the boys doing it? Are the boys having to worry about this stuff? Are the boys the centre of a gigantic global debate on this subject?