Quotes About Gender

studies have shown that married fathers still spend more time in shared leisure activities with their sons, and children of both genders receive greater attention from their father when there is a son in the family.

Man must work, she might well have said, and woman must not weep.

It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.

In every power, of which taste is the foundation, excellence is pretty fairly divided among the sexes.

A woman, especially if she has the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.

I do not think I ever opened a book in my life which had not something to say upon woman's inconstancy. Songs and proverbs, all talk of woman's fickleness. But perhaps you will say, these were all written by men.

A woman should never be trusted with money.

I think women don't grow up with the harsh world of criticism that men grow up with, we are more sensitively treated, and when you first experience the world of film-making you have to develop a very tough skin.

About 10 000 years ago, males and females were acting equitably and were treating one another as equals, and then males took over the power, because they have physical power and physical strength.

Men are trained to discount women in any number of ways, Lydia.

A man has every season while a woman only has the right to spring.

You don't have to be anti-man to be pro-woman.

Women tend to be more intuitive, or to admit to being intuitive, and maybe the hard science approach isn't so attractive. The way that science is taught is very cold. I would never have become a scientist if I had been taught like that.

When a man falls in love with a woman, it is like an arrow piercing the meadow; when a woman falls in love with a man, it is like grain scattered on rocks.

Several men I can think of are as capable, as smart, as funny, as compassionate, and as confused — as remarkable you might say — as most women.

Then, a female was politically classed with infants, idiots, and lunatics, as 'naturally incapacitated… and therefore… so much under the influence of others that [she] cannot have a will of her own'.3 That is why there were such strict regulations governing her behaviour at university (and beyond), not only to protect her moral and physical welfare, but to defend good men, such as undergraduates and lecturers, from temptation and involuntary folly.

I didn't want to be a boy, ever, but I was outraged that his height and intelligence were graces for him and gaucheries for me.

The phrase "working mother" is redundant.

In my opinion, the only good spider is a dead spider, and women's rights aren't worth dick if they mean I can't ask a man to do my bug squashing.

Men drive off bridges and drink too much because of women like you.

Women always put men first. That's how everything got so screwed up.

Medea really does behave like a man in getting her revenge, instead of letting it go like the Chorus advises. And if every woman behaved like a man, then—well, I don't see how the human race would survive.

No feminist whose concern for women stems from concern for justice in general can ever legitimately allow her only interest to be the advantage of women.

An unmentored daughter is an unnurtured daughter, unnurtured in the strength she needs to Survive as an original woman in this world. Daughters, as compared to sons in a hetero-relational family, are more undernurtured in all ways by mothers and pressured prematurely to become nurturers of others—mostly of men. What also happens in this context, as Denice Yanni has pointed out, is "a silencing of woman's own needs for nurturing by making her the primary nurturer.