Quotes About Gender

My father expected his first child to be a boy, and when it didn't turn out that way he didn't let the fact get in the way of a good story.

Girls aren't very good at keeping maps in their brains", said Edmund, "That's because we've got something in them", replied Lucy.

A woman should be good for everything at home, but abroad good for nothing.

There is no such thing as being good to your wife.

one of the good things about being a woman is that my level of testosterone poisoning is lower than most men's.

A woman will forget that a man is male, if they are good enough friends, but men rarely forget that a woman is feminine.

It's hard to find a good guy... all girls know that guys don't think with their brains.

A girl who bonnets a policeman with an ashcan full of bottles is obviously good wife-and-mother timber.

I don't think a woman should be in any government job whatever. I mean, I really don't. The reason why I do is mainly because they are erratic and emotional.

In Great Britain, woman was subordinate and confined. But at least she was also safe.

Going out and playing football or baseball with the boys, when I was a tomboy, was a great way to learn about winning and losing, and most girls didn't have that experience.

I have a great pack of female friends, but I also have a lot of guy friends. I believe that platonic relationship is entirely possible.

During the Renaissance, women were not allowed to attend art school. Everyone asks, where are the great women painters of the Renaissance?

Looking at health through a gender lens is the first step to a more helpful and personalized approach to healing.

Offering unequal leaves just reinforces the longstanding notion that parenting responsibilities aren't equal, and that doesn't help anyone.

That's the history of the world. His story is told, hers isn't.

all history shows that the hand that cradles the rock has ruled the world, not the hand that rocks the cradle!

We have a history of gender and racial bias on our court that continues to undermine the system. Excluding individuals based on race is antagonistic to the pursuit of justice.

Well, because I'm naturally a tomboy, when I have sleepovers with girls, they end up going home and crying.

Let woman out of the home, let man into it, should be the aim of education. The home needs man, and the world outside needs woman.

My parents were liberal intellectuals but even they expected me to stay at home and look after my younger siblings and do the housework.

We still live in a world in which a significant fraction of people, including women, believe that a woman belongs and wants to belong exclusively in the home.

No longer is the female destined solely for the home and the rearing of the family and only the male for the marketplace and the world of ideas.

The No. 1 impediment to women succeeding in the workforce is now in the home.