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Quotes About Gender

I was sent to a nice Church of England girls' school and at that time, after university, a woman was expected to become a teacher, a nurse or a missionary - prior to marriage.
~ Kate Adie
I also like the whole idea of fairy tales and folk tales being a woman's domain, considered a lesser domain at the time they were told.
~ Alice Hoffman
This will be the fourth time I've seen this film. I'm very proud of it and I think it's a great movie for women of any age. And almost every single man I've talked to has admitted to crying.
~ Amber Tamblyn
I get really excited every time there's a female character who is really strong because a lot of females in film are really soft.
~ Anna Kendrick
What does being a girl have to do with it? There's no time to think when you're on the spot.
~ Bisco Hatori
That's like the fourth time I've been called a women in this past hour. It's really starting to boost my self-esteem.
~ Drew Chadwick
You don't have to be pretty for people to come and see you play. At the same time, if you're a good athlete, it doesn't mean you're not a woman.
~ Martina Navratilova
Premenstrual Syndrome: Just before their periods women behave the way men do all the time.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
I'm a guy, but I'm not afraid to cry. Not all of the time. But when I'm watching a movie, I'll sometimes shed a tear, especially 'Moulin Rouge'.
~ Zac Efron
Women aren't physically afraid of men; women are genetically afraid of men. It's happened for such a long time.
~ Eileen Myles
A woman's always younger than a man at equal years.
~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Of all "rights" which command attention at the present time among us, woman's rights seem to take precedence.
~ Horace Mann
I don't think men have time to be funny because they have to make all of our rules about what we can do with our vaginas.
~ Jenny Slate
Women were seldom given quality assignments or adequate air time.
~ Jessica Savitch
I have a hard time watching films and not thinking how I would play any part, whether its a man or a woman.
~ B. D. Wong
If I can make a generalization, men get into politics because, from the time they're little boys, they've been wanting to be President.
~ Barbara Boxer
You know, women are burdened with all this other crap all the time, like looking good. You need to be really superhuman to be successful as a woman.
~ Bonnie McFarlane
Now why should that man have fainted? But he did,and right across my path by the wall, so that I had to creep over him every time!
~ Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Perhaps it is time to debate culture. The common story is that in "real" African culture, before it was tainted by the west, gender roles were rigid and women were contentedly oppressed.
~ Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The next time your daughter asks, 'Where are all the men?' Tell them that the Democratic party and its policies got rid of them'
~ Dennis Prager
Men should spend less time with guns and more time in childbirth.
~ Lisa Gardner
For the longest time, I thought I was a boy. I really did. I wore boys' clothes, played tag football.
~ Eliza Dushku
I think if I had been a man, I would be richer. That hurts. But at the same time, I have to keep fighting and not think too much about "what if," because that doesn't lead you anywhere.
~ Isabel Coixet
I think men spend so much time passing for being men.
~ Junot Diaz