Quotes About Gender

Women, who on grounds of modesty alone might be expected to prefer being killed or cured by one of their own sex, prove as incalculable in this as in most other things;

Men do not have to cook their food they do so for symbolic reasons to show they are men and not beasts.

Just think of dick as pussy on a stick.

Where is Prince Charming? What ever happened to happily ever after? Why is it that a man who is unhappy with a woman--a man who may neglect, abuse or abandon her--cannot bear to see her happy alone or with someone else? That manner of macho is decidedly unattractive.

Men give love because they want sex. Women give sex because they want love. That's the difference between men and women. Ever notice how when we talk about our love lives, it's always about a man? Singular. All most of us want is one good man. But when men talk, it's about women. Plural. They want as many as they can get.

Whoever heard of a woman having to enter her house past a row of guns! These weren't Indian days—pioneer scalping days.

I have some women friends but I prefer men. Don't trust women. There is a built-in competition between women.

I, being born a woman and distressed By all the needs and notions of my kind...

Así funciona la cabeza de mamá: los hombres en general, y nuestro padre en particular, llevan las riendas de las cosas. Pero en el fondo, en la penumbra, las mujeres disponemos de una sanción final, de una palabra inapelable. Si el clan por algún motivo está en peligro y los hombres, en su ceguera consuetudinaria, en su simpleza ramplona, no advierten el riesgo, somos nosotras las que debemos intervenir.

The notion that women are less aesthetically profound and innovative than men--just not very important, if you know what I mean--doubtless spreads back to our beginnings as upright animals: the males hunted and killed for the family while the females stayed home in the cave and tended the strange little creatures they were giving birth to.

Badly off as the men...were in your day, they were more fortunate than their mothers and wives.

The word for woman is Gy (pronounced hard, as in Guy); it forms itself into Gy-ei for the plural, but the G becomes soft in the plural like Jy-ei. They have a proverb to the effect that this difference in pronunciation is symbolical, for that the female sex is soft in the concrete, but hard to deal with in the individual.

A Gy wears wings habitually when yet a virgin—she joins the Ana in their aerial sports—she adventures alone and afar into the wilder regions of the sunless world: in the boldness and height of her soarings, not less than in the grace of her movements, she excels the opposite sex. But, from the day of her marriage she wears wings no more, she suspends them with her own willing hand over the nuptial couch, never to be resumed unless the marriage tie be severed by divorce or death.

Anyhow, with their extraordinary gift for, and experience in, affairs of the heart from the double point of view, both of the man and of the woman it is not difficult to see that these people have a special work to do as reconcilers and interpreters of the two sexes to each other.

Woman is the most superstitious animal beneath the moon. When a woman has a premonition that Tuesday will be a disaster, to which a man pays no heed, he will very likely lose his fortune then. This is not meant to be an occult or mystic remark. The female body is a vessel, and the universe drops its secrets into her far more quickly than it communicates them to the male.

Through forty years of impatience, Nicholas still could not make up his mind which was more annoying, the guile of straight women or the wiles of gay men.

Man endures pain as an undeserved punishment; woman accepts it as a natural heritage.

The ladybug's a beetle. It's shaped like a pea. Its color is a bright red With lots of spots to see. Although the name is ladybug Some ladybugs are men. So why don't we say "gentleman bug" Every now and then?

Women belong in the house... and the Senate.

Man may work from sun to sun,But woman's work is never done.

Sexism is a social disease.

Drag is when a man wears everything a lesbian won't.

I was told that whistling wasn't ladylike, but I knew even then that women were simply not supposed to be that happy.

One man among a thousand have I found; but a woman among all those have I not found.