Quotes About Gender

You know men. You confuse 'em, they panic. Much like possum.

Women never thought beyond the happy ending. We'd been taught to believe that our world revolved around securing a commitment from a man.

it was time I gave up my foolish, romantic notions of happily-ever-afters… Women never thought beyond the happy ending. We'd been taught to believe that our world revolved around securing a commitment from a man

I've always liked men better than women.

Strong women only marry weak men.

Men become much more attractive when they start looking older. But it doesn't do much for women, though we do have an advantage: make-up.

Much depends, of course, on the nature of the male-female relationship in the society. The psychological mechanism behind the assertion that rebirth takes place in initiation may in many cases be very simple: men's desire to detract from the importance of childbearing or to cancel their own obligations to women as the source of life.

Women hope men will change after marriage but they don't; men hope women won't change but they do.

We are constantly protecting the male ego, and it's a disservice to men. If a man has any sensitivity or intelligence, he wants to get the straight scoop from his girlfriend.

Somehow men were supposed to have gained enough sexual expertise to teach women about sex. But having to project a masculine image at all times kept them from learning. If you already know all the answers, you can't ask questions.

Men weren't really the enemy — they were fellow victims suffering from an outmoded masculine mystique that made them feel unnecessarily inadequate when there were no bears to kill.

No woman gets an orgasm from shining the kitchen floor.

Men are not the enemy, but the fellow victims. The real enemy is women's denigration of themselves.

In almost every professional field, in business and in the arts and sciences, women are still treated as second-class citizens. It would be a great service to tell girls who plan to work in society to expect this subtle, uncomfortable discrimination--tell them not to be quiet, and hope it will go away, but fight it. A girl should not expect special privileges because of her sex, but neither should she "adjust" to prejudice and discrimination

The feminists had destroyed the old image of woman, but they could not erase the hostility, the prejudice, the discrimination that still remained.

The feminist revolution had to be fought because women quite simply were stopped at a state of evolution far short of their human capacity.

It is perhaps beside the point to remark that bowling alleys and supermarkets have nursery facilities, while schools and colleges and scientific laboratories and government offices do not.

The key to the trap is, of course, education. The feminine mystique has made higher education for women seem suspect, unnecessary and even dangerous. But I think that education, and only education, has saved, and can continue to save, American women from the greater dangers of the feminine mystique.

Man is not the enemy here, but the fellow victim. The real enemy is women's denigration of themselves.

Men weren't really the enemy — they were fellow victims suffering from an outmoded masculine mystique that made them feel unnecessarily inadequate when there were no bears to kill.

It is wrong to keep spelling out unnecessary choices that make women unconsciously resist either commitment or motherhood--and that hold back recognition of the needed social changes.

Why should anyone raise an eyebrow because a latter-day Einstein's wife expects her husband to put aside that lifeless theory of relativity and help her with the work that is supposed to be the essence of life itself: diaper the baby and don't forge to rinse the soiled diaper in the toilet paper before putting it in the diaper pail, and then wax the kitchen floor.

I didn't like it when men presumed to answer for their women; as a detective, I liked it even less.

In their minds, women can't do anything wrong.