Sexes Quotes
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Equality of sexes does not mean equality of occupations.
Mahatma Gandhi
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The sexes in each species of being... are always true equivalents - equals but not identical.
Antoinette Brown Blackwell
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Androgyny suggests a spirit of reconciliation between the sexes.
Carolyn Heilbrun
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We have to be careful in this era of radical feminism, not to emphasize an equality of the sexes that leads women to imitate men to prove their equality. To be equal does not mean you have to be the same.
Eva Burrows
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To the "masculists" of both sexes, "femininity" implies all that men have built into the female image in the past few centuries: weakness, imbecility, dependence, masochism, unreliability, and a certain "babydoll" sexuality that is actually only a projection of male dreams. To the "feminist" of both sexes, femininity is synonymous with the eternal female principle, connoting strength, integrity, wisdom, justice, dependability, and a psychic power foreign and therefore dangerous to the plodding masculists of both sexes.
Elizabeth Gould Davis
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The sexes were made for each other, and only in the wise and loving union of the two is the fullness of health and duty and happiness to be expected
William Hall
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If there are more than two sexes, then so be it and, of course, the assumption that there are two helps shape, as many have argued, the binary logic that underpins much of the history of western philosophy.
Alison Assiter
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How can you talk about power to the people unless you realise the people is both sexes.
John Lennon
The Beatles
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I never did believe in the equality of the sexes, but no girl is the weaker vessel if she gets first grip of the kitchen poker.
Edgar Wallace
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There is, between the sexes, a law of incessant reciprocal action, of which God avails himself in the constitution of the family, when He permits brothers and sisters to nestle about the same hearthstone. Its ministration is essential to the best educational results. Our own educational institutions should rest upon this divine basis.
Caroline Wells Healey Dall
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Androgyny suggests a spirit of reconciliation between the sexes; it suggests, further, a full range of experience…it suggests a spectrum upon which human beings choose their places without regard to propriety or custom.
Carolyn Heilbrun
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She represented the distilled essence of the battle between the sexes.
Anne Edwards
