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Quotes About Gender

When I was really young, the women's national team wasn't on a grand media stage, so my role models were male basketball and male American football players.
~ Abby Wambach
I don't think there's anything that is a greater area of discrimination against women today than the fact that nowhere in the world is there a female role model in team sports that more than half of a general audience would recognize.
~ Warren Farrell
What is that in his hand?" "A cleaver. As in-" "Butcher's knife." "You got it." "I hope not." "He does not look happy." "Are you sure it's a he?" "I don't want to know.
~ Ridley Pearson
Since she's discovered men would rather drown than nibble, she does just fine.
~ Rita Dove
If the world was truly a rational place, men would ride sidesaddle.
~ Rita Mae Brown
What's the point of being a lesbian if a woman is going to look and act like an imitation man?
~ Rita Mae Brown
When God made man she was practicing.
~ Rita Mae Brown
If the world were a logical place, men would ride side-saddle.
~ Rita Mae Brown
Men reach their sexual peak at eighteen. Women reach theirs at thirty-five. Do you get the feeling that God is playing a practical joke?
~ Rita Rudner
When a woman tries on clothing from her closet that feels tight, she will assume she has gained weight. When a man tries on clothing from his closet that feels tight, he will assume the clothing has shrunk.
~ Rita Rudner
What are men wearing? Why do they think women like horse saddles and pine sap? If a man wanted me to follow him down the street, he should wear something called "Butter Cookie" or, even better, "Croissant."
~ Rita Rudner
Men don't feel the urge to get married as quickly as women do because their clothes all button and zip in the front. Women's dresses usually button and zip in the back. We need men emotionally and sexually, but we also need men to help us get dressed.
~ Rita Rudner
There is truth in what they say about the sexes. Men like cars; women like clothes. I also like cars because they take me to clothes.
~ Rita Rudner
Men have an easier time buying bathing suits. Women have two types: depressing and more depressing. Men have two types: nerdy and not nerdy.
~ Rita Rudner
Men forget everything; women remember everything. That's why men need instant replays in sports.
~ Rita Rudner
Some people think having large breasts makes a woman stupid. Actually, it's quite the opposite: a woman having large breasts makes men stupid.
~ Rita Rudner
Men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage — they've experienced pain and bought jewelry.
~ Rita Rudner
The old theory was "Marry an older man, because they're more mature." But the new theory is: "Men don't mature. Marry a younger one."
~ Rita Rudner
The modern individual family is based on the open or disguised domestic enslavement of the woman; and modern society is a mass composed solely of individual families as its molecules. Today, in the great majority of cases, the man has to be the earner, the breadwinner of the family, at least among the propertied classes, and this gives him a dominating position which requires no special legal privileges. In the family, he is the bourgeois; the wife represents the proletariat.
~ Rius
You're in a physical landscape you share with this bizarre and fundamentally alien creature, not alien because she's female but alien because you're a fool in love and there's nothing not alien about that.
~ Rob Sheffield
Many of these mothers raised their daughters to not need a man. At
~ Robert A. Glover
Premenstrual Syndrome: Just before their periods women behave the way men do all the time.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
Once a month, some women act like men act all the time.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
Margaret noticed that he was one of the many men who classify women into those you talk to and those with whom words merely impede the way.
~ Robert Aickman