Quotes About Gender

Guys are like dogs. They keep comin' back. Ladies are like cats. Yell at a cat one time, they're gone.

a girl takes too much time to love and a few seconds to hate. but a boy takes a few seconds to love and too much time to hate.

Sexual difference is probably the issue in our time which could be our 'salvation' if we thought it through.

I live by a man's code, designed to fit a man's world, yet at the same time I never forget that a woman's first job is to choose the right shade of lipstick.

The woman's position in the world today is so much harder than a man's that it makes me choke every time I hear a man complain about anything.

When Ginger Rogers danced with Astaire, it was the only time in the movies when you looked at the man, not the woman.

It is time we gave man faith in woman -- and, still more, woman faith in herself.

I've always said I have nothing against a woman doing anything a man can do as long as she gets home in time to cook dinner.

The boys of my people began very young to learn the ways of men, and no one taught us; we just learned by doing what we saw, and we were warriors at a time when boys now are like girls.

I don't face any particular problems as a woman president because I have been a professional for a long time. I keep telling people: I am a technocrat who happens to be a woman.

Gender is an identity tenuously constituted in time, instituted in an exterior space through a stylized repetition of acts.

A man is designed to walk three miles in the rain to phone for help when the car breaks down - and a woman is designed to say, 'you took your time' when he comes back dripping wet.

School was great. There were no boys there, which didn't really bother me at the time because I had two brothers, so I was quite pleased not to spend any more time with boys.

I knew I was weird by the time I was four. I knew I wasn't like other boys. I knew I was more fearful. I didn't like the rough and tumble most boys were into. I knew I was a sissy.

The amount of time that a young girl spends wearing pink will be inversely proportional to her future income.

I'm terrified that I'm genetically predisposed to only having boys. That's frightening. By the time I was 10 years old, and I'm not exaggerating, I knew how to patch drywall.

I think there was the studio mentality for a long time that women and girls can relate to a male hero, but boys and men can't relate to a female hero.

Here's the dilemma, Itself the solution. I have always been at the same time woman enough to be moved to tears and man enough to drive my car in any direction.

The principle of equal pay for equal work is written in the EU Treaties since 1957. It is high time that it is put in practice everywhere.

By the time the traditionally male lexicographers become interested in looking at fashion words, their origins are lost in the mists of time.

Recent research into the problem shows that three percent of all American males are considered antisocial, while only one percent of women are. Interestingly, little boys tend to show sociopathic traits early in childhood, while girls with antisocial personality disorders rarely exhibit symptoms before the onset of puberty.

Men are strange beings, and must not be judged by rules that apply to women.

When an actress takes off her clothes onscreen but a nursing mother is told to leave, what message do we send about the roles of women? In some ways we're as committed to the old madonna-whore dichotomy as ever. And the Madonna stays home, feeding the baby behind the blinds, a vestige of those days when for a lady to venture out was a flagrant act of public exposure.

What I expect from my male friends is that they are polite and clean. What I expect from my female friends is unconditional love, the ability to finish my sentences for me when I am sobbing, a complete and total willingness to pour their hearts out to me, and the ability to tell me why the meat thermometer isn't supposed to touch the bone.