David Gemmell Quotes

I was really raised in a gender-neutral household. I always knew I was a girl, but it never occurred to me that there was a limitation.

Masculinity involves feminine qualities, and femininity involves masculine qualities.

Boys are much more likely to objectify girls bodies, while boys are seen by girls as whole people.

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.

If there's a distinction between men and women, I don't pay attention to it. Honestly, I don't see it. I think all of us are part feminine and part masculine.

I think it is absurd to give such tremendous importance to the distinctions between men and women. When I meet someone I regard that person as a human being. I do not say "This is a man; this is a woman."

I say that male and female are cast in the same mold; except for education and habits, the difference is not great.

The terms 'male' and 'female' must be understood as representing no mere primitive opposition of sex to sex; but as defining two worlds of differing quality, in either of which men and women may jointly move and live.

The first thing that strikes the careless observer is that women are unlike men. They are 'the opposite sex' - (though why 'opposite' I do not know; what is the 'neighbouring sex'?).

"After all," as a pretty girl once said to me, "women are a sex by themselves, so to speak."

I'm sorry, but I do hate this differentiation between the sexes. The modern girl has a thoroughly businesslike attitude to life! That sort of thing. It's not a bit true! Some girls are businesslike and some aren't. Some men are sentimental and muddle-headed, others are clear-headed and logical. There are just different types of brains.

Unlike furious thin-lipped feminists, I tend not to draw distinctions between men and women, apart from in bed where you really do need to spot the difference.

It seems to me that "Gender trouble" will always be important to try and open up our ideas of what gender is. So, I don't know if it's revolutionary, but maybe it still has something to say to those issues.

I am not elevating women to sainthood, nor am I suggesting that all women share the same views, or that all women are good and all men bad.

In human beings pure masculinity or femininity is not to be found either in a psychological or biological sense.

I just think that people are complicated, both men and women. It happens that I write more about women.

Nobody is surprised that women writers accurately represent male characters over and over again, no doubt because everybody knows that women understand men much better than vice-versa.

In the end, I do think it's insulting to men and women to insist that they fit a certain profile. I never understood that.

I was a regular little boy who also enjoyed things that girls did.

I'm supposed to have a Ph.D. on the subject of women. But the truth is I've flunked more often than not. I'm very fond of women; I admire them. But, like all men, I don't understand them.

There is more difference within the sexes than between them.

On one issue at least, men and women agree; they both distrust women.

Hedi was and is still misspelled 'Heidi,' and my perception of genders ended up slightly out of focus from an early age.

Men and women, women and men. It will never work.

Well I do think, when there are more women, that the tone of the conversation changes, and also the goals of the conversation change. But it doesn't mean that the whole world would be a lot better if it were totally run by women. If you think that, you've forgotten high school.