A determining point in the history of gynecology is to be found in the fact that sex plays a more important part in the life of a woman than in that of man, and that she is more burdened by her sex.
-Henry E. Sigerist, Swiss medical historian
in the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology
"Some patients, and unfortunately some doctors, [think that] as long as the patient will complain of
madalas umihi-they label the patient as having UTI."
-Urologic surgeon
Carmela Lapitan, University of the Philippines-Philippine General Hospital
"Women's attitude towards Pap Smear is acquired, not inborn. That means we can teach women to acquire new and positive attitude towards the Pap smear or similar tests."
-Dr. Cecilia Llave, president, Philippine Society of Cervical Pathology and Colposcopy and head, UP-PGH Cancer Institute
"We cannot tell people not to have sex, but we can tell them to do it safely, using barrier methods, stay in a relationship with a partner who is known to be not infected."
-Dr. Ricardo Manalastas, vice-chair for research, obstetrics-gynecology department, UP-PGH
"Feminism is about empowering all our patients-men, women, and children-and treating them with respect."
-Laura Helfman, emergency room doctor
quoted in Leslie Laurence and Beth Weinhouse's Outrageous Practices
"If men could menstruate...clearly, menstruation would become an enviable, boast-worthy, masculine event: men would brag about how long and how much."
-Gloria Steinem, US feminist writer, editor
"If Men Could Menstruate" in Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions, 1983
"What is a woman? I assure you, I do not know. . . . I do not believe that anybody can know until she has expressed herself in all the arts and professions open to human skill."
-Virginia Woolf, Professions for Women
"One is not born a woman, one
becomes one."
-Simone de Beauvoir, in The Second Sex
"After all, as a pretty girl once said to me, women are a sex by themselves, so to speak."
-Sir Max Beerbohm, in The Perversion of Rouge
"Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult."
-Charlotte Whitton, quoted in Canada Month
"I'll wager that in 10 years it will be fashionable again to be a virgin."
-Barbara Cartland
The Observer, "Sayings of the Week," June 20, 1976
"The most important sex organ is not the genitals; it's the brain."
-Pediatric urologist
and child psychiatrist
William Reiner,
quoted in John Colapinto's As Nature Made Him: The Boy who was Raised as a Girl
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