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Quotes About Gender

What do you remember—their kisses? All sorts of things…. Men are different with women. Different in what way? Oh, entirely—and quite inexpressibly. Men who had the most firmly rooted reputation for being this way or that would sometimes be surprisingly inconsistent with me. Brutal men were tender, negligible men were astonishingly loyal and lovable, and, often, honorable men took attitudes that were anything but honorable. For
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
Remember in all society nine girls out of ten marry for money and nine men out of ten are fools.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
I'm too bright for most men, and yet I have to descend to their level and let them patronize my intellect in order to get their attention.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
I mean the women who, without any of the prerogatives of youth and beauty, demand continual slavery from their men....They sit back complacently and watch their husbands slave for them; and, without furnishing any of the pleasantries of life for their husbands, they demand the sort of continual attention that a charming fiancée might get....They are harridans and shrews who continually nag and scold until the men are driven idiotic.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
I may be old-fashioned in my ideas, but women run around too much these days to suit me. They meet all kinds of crazy fish.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
Their point of resemblance to each other and their difference from so many American women lay in the fact that they were all happy to exist in a man's world - they preserved their individuality through men and not by opposition to them.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
You were brought up to work--not especially to marry. Now you've found your first nut to crack and it's a good nut--go ahead and put whatever happens down to experience. Wound yourself or him-- whatever happens it can't spoil you because economically you're a boy, not a girl.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
Most of the remaining women were now having fights with men said to be their husbands.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
You were brought up to work — not especially to marry. Now you've found your first nut to crack and it's a good nut — go ahead and put whatever happens down to experience. Wound yourself or him — whatever happens it can't spoil you because economically you're a boy, not a girl.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
La deshonestidad femenina es algo que no se puede criticar en serio
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
Parfait, ai-je dit, je suis contente que ce soit une fille. J'espère qu'elle sera idiote. Pour une fille, c'est la meilleure place à tenir sur terre — celle d'une ravissante petite idiote.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
The education of all beautiful women is the knowledge of men.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
Is it a boy or a girl?' she asked delicately. 'That dog? That dog's a boy.' 'It's a bitch,' said Tom decisively. 'Here's your money. Go and buy ten more dogs with it.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
DoÄŸum yapal? bir saat bile olmam??t?. Tom'un nerede olduÄŸunu Tanr? bilir. Narkozdan ç?k?nca yoÄŸun bir terkedilmiÅŸlik hissi içimi kaplad? ve hastabak?c?ya k?z m? oÄŸlan m? diye sordum. K?z olduÄŸunu öÄŸrenince de, arkam? döndüm ve aÄŸlad?m pekala dedim kendime k?z olduÄŸuna sevindim. Umar?m aptal olur. Çünkü bu dünyada bir k?z için en iyisi aptal ve güzel olmak.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
Mi fa piacere che sia femmina. E spero che sarà una stupida... è la cosa migliore per una bambina, a questo mondo, una bella e piccola stupida.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
I hate to be laughed at,' she said finally. 'I won't laugh any more, I'm not laughing now, am I?' 'You did.' 'Oh, don't be so darned feminine.' Her lips curled slightly. 'I'll be anything I want.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
Every time they have somebody born in the movies, it is a little boy. They never have little girls being born. What makes boys so great and woooonnnderfullll? I can do anything a boy can do
~ Fannie Flagg
Men are necessary up to a point, but women are the natural leaders in society and in the home.
~ Fannie Flagg
Now, I'm not saying they can help it, all I am saying is that in order for this world to keep on progressing the women have got to run things. The trick is to do it without them knowing it.
~ Fannie Flagg
Women are fools; they will marry anything that has a heartbeat just to have a man.
~ Fannie Flagg
It became obvious that you had to be a feminist because it was such a ridiculous state of affairs.
~ Fay Weldon
I cannot say whether there is fur on my wife's legs for I have never seen them nor do I intend to commit myself to the folly of looking at them. In any event and in all politeness -nothing would be further from me than to insult a guest- I deem the point you have made as unimportant because there is surely nothing in the old world to prevent a deceitful kangaroo from shaving the fur from her legs, assuming she is a woman?
~ Flann O'Brien
I love how Duran Duran had the female fan base, then it grew until males started to like them, too.
~ Ashton Irwin
Over the years, the kind of fan mail I've gotten from men has always been different from what I get from women.
~ Julie Newmar