Quotes About Gender

They say women have a much higher pain threshold. They say it's because we are the ones who have to go through childbirth. I say it's because women have a much higher everything than most men.

men and women and members of the genders beyond and in between

Boys," I mutter tolerantly across the years to Saleem-at-twenty-four, "will be boys.

It was always women who did the choosing, and men's place was to be grateful if they were lucky enough to be the chosen ones.

Any culture that raises men and boys to kill unlucky girls, rather than comfort them, is a culture that has managed to retard the growth of love. Such

I'm probably taller than 90% of the men I meet.

It's surely no accident that there are horoscopes in Vogue, Glamour, Mademoiselle, Woman, New Woman, Elle and Cosmo ... but not Sports Illustrated, GQ, Esquire, Field & Stream or Guns & Ammo.

Sport has been called the last bastion of male domination. Unfortunately, there are others - Congress, for instance.

As a woman I resent the fact that in golf if I have the highest score I'm the loser.

About 10,000 years ago, males and females were acting equitably and were treating one another as equals, and then males took over the power, because they have physical power and physical strength.

People say to me, 'Has being a woman helped or hindered your career?' And the answer is yes.

Charm is a woman's strength just as strength is a man's charm.

The stronger a woman gets, the more insecure the men in her life feel. It doesn't work that way for a woman. We celebrate strength--in our partners as well as in ourselves.

On the strength of his literary output alone... any woman of sense would decline to tackle D.H. Lawrence at 1,000 pounds a night.

Misfortune sprinkles ashes on the head of the man, but falls like dew on the heart of the woman, and brings forth [gems] of strength of which she herself had no conscious possession.

... health is the obstacle, which ... must stand in the way of a girl's acquiring the intellectual strength, which ... is so invaluable to a boy.

I am a woman and I don't have the power and the strength of a man, so I have to use my technique and my strategy more than just using brute strength like some of the guys do.

A strong man can handle a strong woman. A weak man will say she has an attitude.

Girls and boys respond to stress differently - not just in our species, but in every mammal scientists have studied. Stress enhances learning in males. The same stress impairs learning in females.

I think especially as women we nned to recognize that feeling pressure is completely selfimposed.

When you educate a girl, you kick-start a cycle of success. It makes economic sense. It makes social sense. It makes moral sense. But, it seems, it's not common sense yet.

One danger of a man succeeding is that it teaches his wife and daughter not to worry about success.

As you become more successful, the gender barrier disappears. The credibility challenges you have during your growing up years starts disappearing when you start demonstrating success.

It's hard for a man to live with a successful woman - they seem to resent you so much. Very few men are generous enough to accept success in their women.