Quotes About Gender

Hollywood is the definition of sexual discrimination.

lo que les permite discernir con implacable rigor las fantasías y deseos propios de cada sexo pese a que, en apariencia, sólo han tenido ocasión de conocer uno de las dos.

concebir y alimentar a las crías que engendra el macho de la especie. Y nada más, porque todo lo demás es cultura.

ser una mujer es tener piel de mujer, dos cromosomas X y la capacidad de concebir y alimentar a las crías que engendra el macho de la especia. Y nada más, porque todo lo demás es cultura.

Si fuerzas a alguien a escoger, no debería sorprenderte que no te escojan" "No es gracioso cómo los chicos y las chicas siempre mienten en sentidos opuestos? Los chicos añaden, las chicas restan

Sometimes I don't know what I am. But what I would like to be on the outside -- what I want other people to see -- is a girl.

Japanese women live in fear of making the least sound in a bathroom stall. Japanese men pay no attention to the subject whatsoever.

Men are actually the weaker sex.

Women always go through the door first. Even ardent feminists would admit it's nice. It's not an acknowledgment of women as the weaker sex; it's perhaps an acknowledgment of women as the stronger sex.

The guardianship of the weaker sex has survived in the family law which still states, 'And he shall be your master.'

Men are the weaker sex and retain their immaturity, it seems, to the grave. It's like a built-in design fault. You can't do anything about it.

You know it's harder to be a girl in this world because we're the weaker sex.

In marriage, a woman becomes the weaker sex, even if her husband doesn't want her to be. This happens because of the way society has built the institution.

Females make better cooks than men. Females have a better palate. They have a better sense of smell. They never take shortcuts; this is why they're very good in kitchens. The weakness in what they do is they are not as physically strong as men, so they're never really given the opportunity.

I don't know why femininity should be associated with weakness. Women should be free to express who they are without thinking, 'I need to act like a man, or I need to tone it down to be successful.' That's a very good way to keep women down.

We need to understand that femininity is not weakness. And our society, for some reason, equates the two.

I grew up in a family where you were allowed to say anything; you were allowed to show weakness... I have no problems talking about anything, basically. But at the same time, I know I'm different than a woman.

The Hegelian dynamic plays out daily on and off the film sets - women are not lesser beings, but because they are assumed to be, they are subjected to inferior conditions. And this inferiority projects itself through the feeling of weakness and subjugation.

Women use men's weaknesses toward them to cause trouble and distraction.

We live in a world where there are a hell of a lot of new inputs that need to be factored in to your business. It used to be just about your employees and your customers. Now there are all the issues about global warming, about sustainability, about ethics and now about gender and the distribution of wealth.

If women had better access to the financial system - even so much as a basic deposit account at a bank - it would be a major step in the direction of greater wealth and greater economic empowerment.

Marriage has been a way of attempting to ensure the replication of power and wealth from one generation of another, passing it down from men to men.

In the sex war, thoughtlessness is the weapon of the male, vindictiveness of the female.

There is no more potent weapon in any profession than a woman with a feminine exterior and a will of steel, and I defy you to find one man who will disagree.