My favorite Rorty quote is from his November 1999 Atlantic Monthly article "Phony Science Wars:"
"... 'the homosexual,' 'the Negro,' and 'the female' are best seen not as inevitable classifications of human beings but rather as inventions that have done more harm than good."
I've often reflected since then on how "the female" is not an inevitable classification of human beings. I mean, who are you going to believe? A famous philosopher or your lying eyes?