Quotes About Gender

Men! What do any of you ever do without us?" "Live in hovels?

I thought things were fine between us." "Of course you did. You're a man, aren't you?

It was a rare man who didn't mind having a woman dump all her problems and insecurities in his lap.

One does so hate to admit that the average woman is kinder, finer, more quick of sympathy and on the whole so much more first class than the average man.

It might be that women who have been nurses should not marry physicians. They have too much respect for physicians, are taught to have too much respect

I have a five year-old son and a three year-old daughter. I want my son to have a choice to contribute fully in the workforce or at home. And I want my daughter to have the choice to not just succeed, but to be liked for her accomplishments.

The No. 1 impediment to women succeeding in the workforce is now in the home.

Women are not making it to the top. A hundred and ninety heads of state nine are women. Of all the people in parliament in the world, thirteen per cent are women. In the corporate sector, women at the top - C-level jobs, board seats - tops out at fifteen, sixteen per cent.

If you ask men why they did a good job, they'll say, 'I'm awesome. Obviously. Why are you even asking?' If you ask women why they did a good job, what they'll say is someone helped them, they got lucky, they worked really hard.

I never thought a basketball shoe would be named after a woman, let alone me.

Women are the victims of this patriarchal culture, but they are also its carriers. Let us keep in mind that every oppressive man was raised in the confines of his mother's home.

was a female Palestinian suicide bomber clutching a rifle in one hand and her little son in the other. This, it seemed, was the state's only vision of gender equality. Ahmadinejad instituted separate elevators for men and women in government buildings, and he fired swaths of municipal workers who were not religious or devoted enough to his ideology. Tehran

Under the Iranian code, the worth of a woman's life equals half of a man's, a point that often leads to grotesque legal judgments that effectively punish the victims. In this instance, the judge ruled that the 'blood money' for the two men was worth more than the life of the murdered nine-year-old girl, and he demanded that her family come up with thousands of dollars to finance their executions.

If I grew up in the simple-minded belief that women were as strong and intelligent as men, it was because I came from a society that had once believed it.

I think men are afraid to be with a successful woman, because we are terribly strong, we know what we want and we are not fragile enough.

Tremendous amounts of talent are lost to our society just because that talent wears a skirt.

Liberty and justice for all" were beautiful words, but the ugly fact was that liberty and justice were only for white males.

The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says: It's a girl.

I did this [ran for president as a democrat instead of third party] because I feel that the time for tokenism and symbolic gestures is past. Women need to plunge into the world of politics and battle it out toe to toe on the same ground as male counterparts. (From Voices of Multicultural America)

That was the problem. Somehow you got this feeling that a dependent woman was feminine and an independent woman wasn't feminine, that it was unfeminine to be responsible for yourself.

Women can be divided, more or less, into cows and shrews, and the shrews are to be avoided. [p. 74]

I find it strange that practicing law in a comfortable well-heated office is considered too demanding an occupation for women, yet laboring from dawn's first light in crowded, drafty, ill-lit sweatshops is not.

Not for nothing was the MGM lot known as the "factory," a studio perfumed with sultry, busty creatures with long legs and tight haunches, and more than its quota of lecherous older men.

For the real issue under all the fights about other women is the man is unable to commit himself.