Quotes About Gender

It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics and chemistry.

A man loses his sense of direction after four drinks; a woman loses hers after four kisses.

Whenever a woman begins to talk of anything, she is talking to, of, or at a man.

A man's women folk, whatever their outward show of respect for his merit and authority, always regard him secretly as an ass, and with something akin to pity.

If it were advertised that a troupe of men of easy virtue were to appear half-clothed upon a public stage, exposing their chests, thighs, arms and calves, the only women who would go to the entertainment would be a few delayed adolescents, a psychopathic old maid or two, and a guard of indignant members of the parish Ladies Aid.

I can't recall a single masculine figure created by a woman who is not, at bottom, a booby.

That it should still be necessary, at this late stage in the senility of the human race to argue that women have a fine and fluent intelligence is surely an eloquent proof of the defective observation, incurable prejudice, and general imbecility of their lords and masters.

Our fathers were both rude and bold, And would not live like brothers; But we are of a finer mould - We're much more like our mothers!

Immoral women do not exist, said the organist. That this only a superstition. On the other hand there exist women who sleep thirty times with one man, and women who sleep once with thirty men.

Just remember what Satan says: I teach men what I learn from women!

It was clear that Eleanor had been to bed with a large and random collection of people, but when I suggested she go to bed with me, she said, 'I don't think we should, just at the moment, do you?' As a man I found this pretty fucking insulting.

Women are brought up to think of others. [...] When I start to think of myself I feel sick.

Popeye the Sailor Man has more cultural longevity. Only women and poofs read or write now. Otherwise, these days, no sooner has someone been sodomised by a close relative than they think they can write a memoir. The game's up.

Women only wear beautiful clothes so that men will want to remove them.

I've learned that unfeeling, bloodsucking men like you need to reduce women to manageable cliches, even to destroy them, for the sake of control.

You're one of those old-fashioned, romantic men for whom women aren't really there unless you decide we are.

Papá me enseñó a coquetear con todo el mundo, chicas y chicos, y acabé por considerar el encanto -y no la cortesía o la franquza, o incluso la decencia- la principal virtud mundana

My father] murmured only, 'you can always tell when a woman is ready for sex. Oh yes. Her ears get hot.' I looked keenly at Helen's ears. I even reached out and pinched one of them lightly, for scientific confirmation. Warmish!

I've always hated your fucking nagging.' 'It's not nagging, it's for compassion.' 'Right. I won't be coming back here, Eva. You're such a drag now. It's your age. Is it the menopause that's making you like this?

Few men are true masters over their women. In truth, I would eye with suspicion any woman who acts as if that is the truth. Either she lies, or she is so dull-witted or weak-spirited that she will make you a tedious wife.

Beware of fascist feminism.

Defining virginity means directly affecting the lives of nearly all women, and many men as well. Despite what some people appear to think, defining virginity is not merely a philosophical exercise. It is an exercise in controlling how people behave, feel, and think, and in some cases, whether they live or die.

In actuality there are no such things as male or female hormones. Hormones have no sex of their own, and all types of sex hormones are present in all human beings in varying amounts.)

Locker rooms are not, in actual fact, the secret clubhouses of the Effortlessly Thin Women's Fat-Lady Harassment Society.