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Quotes About Gender

In my dating career, I had found that mothers seemed to like me; fathers did not. Period. So I tended to avoid contact with the dads. I assumed that this wasn't personal. Rather, it was simply the fact that I was a hormone-laden, male teenager with a fully functional penis, who happened to be in the presence of their daughters.
~ Robin Yocum
I understand my parents quite well. They think of a wife as a man's luxury, which he can afford only when he is making a comfortable living. I have a low opinion of this view of the relationship between man and wife, because it makes the wife and the prostitute distinguishable only insofar as the former is able to secure a lifelong contract from the man because of her more favourable social rank . . . Which
~ Robyn Arianrhod
Can't any of us stand up to those women?" "Nope," said at least three men in unison.
~ Robyn Carr
Why don't I give her a bottle while you eat. I brought coffee." "Really, I didn't know they made men like you," she said, letting him follow her into the kitchen. When he put down the plate and thermos, she handed over the baby and tested the bottle. "You seem very comfortable with a newborn. For a man. A man with some nieces in Sacramento." He just smiled at her. She passed him the bottle and got out two coffee mugs.
~ Robyn Carr
It's different for guys. They don't feel the same way about proms that girls do. Girls see it as a chance to feel like a princess. Guys see it as a chance to have sex.
~ Robyn Carr
Men should spend less time with guns and more time in childbirth.
~ Lisa Gardner
one may scarcely find one man among seven women, so many women are there widowed whilst their husbands are alive'.
~ Lisa Hilton
with Kurt Striker. He was just too damn male for his own good. Or her own. He'd
~ Lisa Jackson
She was touchy. Maybe that time of the month, but he didn't dare suggest it. She might come unglued and go all ape-shit on him and accuse him of not being PC.
~ Lisa Jackson
She wondered if that was how it worked, that while most women spent their lives searching for the perfect man, men sat around waiting to be chosen and then made the best of it.
~ Lisa Jewell
There was her life in a nutshell.  Beau was asked.  And Mandy wasn't.  Mandy was never asked, she was told.  And like the good girl she was raised to be, Mandy always complied. 
~ Lisa Mondello
Mary was always surprised at how terse men could be. She needed fifteen minutes to say hello. Plus hugging time.
~ Lisa Scottoline
As you know, the Complaint filed by Messrs. Battle, McManus, and Madden alleges that your law firm failed to hire them because of their gender.
~ Lisa Scottoline
two broads who cursed worse than the men. "It's
~ Lisa Scottoline
They hadn't discriminated against John because he was a man
~ Lisa Scottoline
I know a lot about women and their suffering, but I still know almost nothing about men.
~ Lisa See
Confucius didn't care much for women: When a girl, obey your father; when a wife, obey your husband; when a widow, obey your son.
~ Lisa See
What husband wants a wife who thinks she's smarter than he is?
~ Lisa See
We're told that men are strong and brave, but I think women know how to endure, accept defeat, and bear physical and mental agony much better than men.
~ Lisa See
No man was built to shoulder the full weight of feeding and caring for his family. That was why he had a wife and daughters.
~ Lisa See
Pocos hombres pueden salir adelante sin una mujer, mientras que las mujeres no necesitamos tener a un hombre al lado.
~ Lisa See
Raising a girl and marrying her off is like building a fancy road for others to use.
~ Lisa See
My father had shown me devotion, love, and many kindnesses over the years, but I now saw that my being a girl had diminished me in his affections. I cried and Grandmother held me.
~ Lisa See
Do-saeng finally joined the conversation. Not many men can do without a wife, while all women can do without a husband.
~ Lisa See