Quotes About Gender

What a man is is an arrow into the future, and what a woman is is the place the arrow shoots off from.

Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women, it is simply a good excuse not to play football.

A woman can take care of the family. It takes a man to provide structure, to provide stability.

I have an idea that the phrase 'weaker sex' was coined by some woman to disarm the man she was preparing to overwhelm.

A king is always a king - and a woman always a woman: his authority and her sex ever stand between them and rational converse.

It's not easy being a woman. Especially when you're a part-time one. You never really get used to it.

A woman simply is, but a man must become.

Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female - whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male.

There isn't a woman player in the world I can't give knights-odds to and still beat.

Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.

If you're a woman, it's almost impossible to establish a relationship. You're too much for everybody. It's too much. The woman always has to play this role of being fragile and dependent. And if you're not, they're fascinated by you, but only for a little while. And then they want to change you and crush you. And then they leave.

I want to be a good leader, not a good lady leader. I don't want to be known simply as the woman who gave birth.

I certainly respect other people's opinions, but I would not vote for a woman to be the pastor of a church.

Gold and precious gems are, in many places, the one form of wealth a woman can use to protect and enhance herself within the elaborate structure of patriarchy.

When a woman removes her garment, she also removes the respect that is hers.

Can a woman become a genius of the first class? Nobody can know unless women in general shall have equal opportunity with men in education, in vocational choice, and in social welcome of their best intellectual work for a number of generations.

One is not born a woman, but becomes one.

I've always said that at the end of the day, on a legal issue, I think a wise old woman and a wise old man are going to reach the same conclusion.

If a woman possesses manly virtues one should run away from her; and if she does not possess them she runs away from herself.

In the duel of sex woman fights from a dreadnought and man from an open raft.

My mother always told me never offend a man's ego and never hurt a woman's emotions - an advice I will not forget to pass on to my daughter.

Outside every thin woman is a fat man trying to get in.

To say that gender is performative is a little different because for something to be performative means that it produces a series of effects. We act and walk and speak and talk in ways that consolidate an impression of being a man or being a woman.

It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.