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Quotes About Gender

I think that the day you've figured out the differences between women and men is the day that you're no longer attracted to women. It's the difference that is so fantastic and frustrating and angering, and really sexy.
~ Kiefer Sutherland
I am absolutely not a feminist, I am against stupidity, and if it comes from males or females, it doesn't change anything. If it means that women and men, they are equal, then OK, certainly I am a feminist.
~ Marjane Satrapi
Women and men just aren't that different. Oh, we're different in some intriguing ways, and it can be fun to band together for all-gal or all-guy projects. But when it comes to the tragic mess Christ came to heal, we're pretty much the same.
~ Frederica Mathewes-Green
During practice, I train with both women and men. I think it's good to have a mixture of strengths because both have different fighting styles. Every person offers something different, and the more body types you get used to, the better fighter you will become.
~ Kelita Zupancic
My next project is 'Venus Vs,' which is a documentary that follows tennis star Venus Williams and her effort to get equal-award pay for women at Wimbledon. Most people don't realize that Venus fought for years to make sure women and men winners of that tennis championship received the same amount in award money.
~ Ava DuVernay
It might seem at first surprising that when I studied women and men talking at work, I found that women 'interrupted' each other more often than men did - when they were in all-women conversations.
~ Deborah Tannen
Men are different than women, and men live with - with some very difficult obstacles. I mean, a man, basically, in his true nature, is to spread his seed, and a woman is a gatherer, and that's kind of the way we're - our limbic system is set up, you know.
~ Goldie Hawn
Establishing a 'livable wage' floor would immediately reduce the gap in average pay between American women and men.
~ Stephanie Coontz
I'm not sure I'm going to say that women and men are exactly the same. I think we may have different ways of approaching things, different sensitivities, and women are often better than men at picking up emotional cues.
~ Margaret MacMillan
There are no 'strong women.' And men, don't say, 'Real men don't try to bully women.' If a woman attacks you, you fight back.
~ Jesse Lee Peterson
I mean that I consider myself a feminist. I think anybody who thinks women and men should be treated equally is a feminist, whether or not they know it.
~ MJ Hegar
I do think, of course, that women and men should be paid the same.
~ Zoe Ball
It should be common knowledge that women and men can talk about sports.
~ Jessica Mendoza
In my opinion, you keep the standards very high and you maintain one standard. There shouldn't be two standards for women and men, there should be a standard for this job: To do this job, you should have to do these things.
~ MJ Hegar
There's a personality trait known as agreeableness. Agreeable people are compassionate and polite. And agreeable people get paid less than disagreeable people for the same job. Women are more agreeable than men.
~ Jordan Peterson
Women are systematically degraded by receiving the trivial attentions which men think it manly to pay to the sex, when, in fact, men are insultingly supporting their own superiority.
~ Mary Wollstonecraft
When women are encouraged to be competitive, too many of them become disagreeable.
~ Benjamin Spock
Very learned women are to be found, in the same manner as female warriors; but they are seldom or ever inventors.
~ Voltaire
Women are really emotional creatures, and men are kind of closed in terms of emotions. I think women are just a lot more out there.
~ Darren Star
My mother never made me do anything for my brothers, like serve them. I think that's an important lesson, especially for the Latino culture, because the women are expected to be the ones that serve and cook and whatever. Not in our family. Everybody was equal.
~ Dolores Huerta
Studies show that women are more likely than men to die in natural disasters. Women's voices must be heard.
~ Frances Beinecke
I think women are really good at multitasking. Men just cannot do it.
~ Kate Moss
Women are blessed with lots and lots of extra ways to win or lose validation. If you're a woman, you'll be judged on your beauty and your wit and how often you smile. You'll be judged on how much hair you have in some places and not in others.
~ Faith Salie
Men are shameless in selling their story. Women are often reserved. So we do need to encourage women to know their story and then tell it strategically as to how they can add value.
~ Jenny Shipley