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Quotes About Gender

One religion after another has accepted and perpetuated man's original mistake in making a private servant of the mother of the race.
~ Charlotte Perkins Gilman
What people in Burma need is a democratic federal Burma that guarantees autonomy, rights and protection for all, regardless of ethnicity, gender, religion or race.
~ Zoya Phan
Religion is increasingly a woman's domain in America.
~ Bruce Feiler
Anyhow, I say, the God I been praying and writing to is a man. And act just like all the other mens I know. Trifling, forgitful, and lowdown.
~ Alice Walker, The Color Purple
God created man and then woman but the atheist created himself.
~ Anonymous
All the good things a man can do for a woman is against her religion
~ M.F. Moonzajer
In a society where women are truly equal to men, a kid bred by a theist mother and an atheist father is born an agnostic. In a patriarchal society, the kid is automatically an atheist.
~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana
God didn't make Eve from Adam's rib. He took out half of Adam's brain by accident.
~ Shirley Jump, Kissed by Cat
A woman's experience is different from a man's in virtually every respect, including how she is treated by the media.
~ Carly Fiorina
My grandfather was the first feminist in my life. He taught me if a woman can do something, a man will respect her.
~ Pam Grier
You have to fight for respect. In life, even cashiers at the supermarket, if they're women, they're differently treated. It's a reality. The reality is not nice; it's not pretty.
~ Isabel Coixet
A woman takes off her claim to respect along with her garments.
~ Herodotus
I think somehow men understand other men's need for respect differently than they understand it for a woman. I'm disappointed to have to say that, but I think it's undeniably true.
~ Carly Fiorina
Out of respect, a man must veil his words when talking with a woman, but with a man he can frankly say whatever's on his mind.
~ Aeschylus
And the woman who could win the respect of man was often the woman who could knock him down with her bare fists and sit on him until he yelled for help.
~ Agnes Smedley
Hopefully, 21 years later, Judge Roberts possesses an openness with respect to issues of gender-based wage discrimination.
~ Olympia Snowe
What we need are lots of girls who aren't as good as us, who'll treat us with the proper respect and reverance.
~ David Norwood
Men didn't respect beauty...they used it.
~ Nora Roberts, Montana Sky
To me, liberation doesn't mean that I can think just like a man. Real liberation means that I can think, act, and be like a woman and receive equal respect, honor, and compensation.
~ Marianne Williamson
I've always been given respect because I'm kind of mannish, and I'm not a great beauty. I've never played the coquette card because I'm no good at it.
~ Martha Wainwright
A lot of men wouldn't like being called a romantic. It's not macho enough.' Quite often men are fools.
~ P. C. Cast
The great irony is that women are accused of making romantic comedies, as if it's a bad thing, but Marc Webb makes a romantic comedy and he gets 'Spider-Man.' Are you kidding me? You cannot win.
~ Manohla Dargis
We "chicks" have munched our popcorn while romantic comedies became just comedies, and then each female protagonist got recast for Mathew McConaughey or Seth Rogan.
~ Emma McLaughlin
I had to trick people into giving me money for my first film. Making a romantic comedy is easier and more expected from a woman than it is to make a drama about a Japanese warrior.
~ Julie Delpy