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Quotes About Gender

There is simply no way our nation can progress if its women population is left behind.
~ Pratibha Patil
A feminist is a person who wants equal things for men and women, and I definitely believe in that. This doesn't mean I will degrade anyone. In our house, I want my mother and father to have equal importance and that's the only way to bring up a socially responsible child.
~ Aishwarya Lekshmi
A gender line... helps to keep women not on a pedestal, but in a cage.
~ Ruth Bader Ginsburg
If you live in rock and roll, as I do, you see the reality of sex, of male lust and women being aroused by male lust. It attracts women. It doesn't repel them.
~ Camille Paglia
Whenever people say 'women's soccer,' I want to correct them to say 'soccer.' Every girl has had their sport diminished because they're girls.
~ Alex Morgan
When men call women ambitious they mean pushy.
~ Liz Truss
Too often the great decisions are originated and given form in bodies made up wholly of men, or so completely dominated by them that whatever of special value women have to offer is shunted aside without expression.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
Indeed, the Muslims have all the social evils of the Hindus and something more. That something more is the compulsory system of purdah for Muslim women. These burka women walking in the streets is one of the most hideous sights one can witness in India.
~ B. R. Ambedkar
I've been in love with both men and women. I've been ghosted by both men and women.
~ Bari Weiss
Where there is so much racket, there must be something out of kilter. I think that 'twixt the Negroes of the South and the women at the North, all talking about rights, the white men will be in a fix pretty soon.
~ Sojourner Truth
It's a small percentage of people who do the 80-hour-a-week high-powered career thing, and they're almost all men. Why? Well, men are driven by socio-economic status more than women.
~ Jordan Peterson
I didn't fight to get women out from behind vacuum cleaners to get them onto the board of Hoover.
~ Germaine Greer
But the true feminist deals out of a lesbian consciousness whether or not she ever sleeps with women.
~ Audre Lorde
Nothing changes the gender equation more significantly than women's economic freedom.
~ Gloria Steinem
Women love an honest man. An honest man that isn't afraid to say, 'Men get hurt too.' And a lot of men don't admit that.
~ Rita Ora
Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Older men get lovable, and older women get monstrous.
~ Eileen Myles
Women, on average, are less knowledgeable than men. They're less intellectual than men.
~ Amy Wax
I hate to generalize, but in general, both men and women suffer from ageism. Men much less because men gain power as they get older. Women lose power as they get older. Men are seen as gaining experience and being distinguished. Sons look forward to replacing their fathers.
~ Gloria Steinem
The older we women grow, the more clearly we see what men really are: hypocrites, boasters, he-goats. The older men grow, the more they doll us up with every perfection.
~ Jean Giraudoux
I really think that Muslim people should stop raising their boys and girls that way. They instill a macho culture right from the start of childhood. And if you have never learned to treat girls and women respectfully, you will never be able to act differently later on than the men in your culture, and in your family. That's fact.
~ Sibel Kekilli
We like to imagine that women would do a better job of ruling the world - and I'm one of those optimists - but women aren't a superior kind of life form just because of our gender. We're awesome but not perfect. We're human. Just like men.
~ Marjorie Liu
The culture of tech companies cannot change if women aren't in the room.
~ Reshma Saujani
Our society demands that women be treated equally and that we not discriminate against them.
~ John McCain