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Quotes About Gender

There was one time I wrestled two boys and I beat them both! They weighed a lot less than I did and I think they didn't want to hurt a girl, so I don't know if I really won - I'd like to think I did.
~ Jaimie Alexander
Wearing a dress shows I can be as feminine as I want. I'm a heterosexual...big deal, but if I was a homosexual, it wouldn't matter, either.
~ Kurt Cobain
Boys will be boys and girls will be girls, and if you want it any different you can join a Shubert chorus
~ J. P. McEvoy
Honestly, because of the way women were treated, I wouldn't want to go back to Puritan times.
~ Janet Montgomery
The part we play is not as we want it, but as we are made-with the genitals God gave us.
~ Maureen Howard
People see weakness in a woman and they want to help. They see weakness in a man and they want to stamp it out
~ Norah Vincent
I'm not for women, frankly, in any job. I don't want any of them around. Thank God we don't have any in the Cabinet.
~ Richard M. Nixon
I'd quite like to do a film but I'd also love to do more theatre. I want to keep challenging myself with good roles. It's harder for women because there aren't as many challenging roles.
~ Ruth Wilson
We know that the only way to achieve equality is if both men and women want to achieve equality. We also know that equality is not just the right thing to do for men, it is a good thing to do.
~ Sheryl Sandberg
Boys always like to see girls kiss. I don't get it; girls don't want to see boys kiss.
~ Dominique Swain
Women are skinny for other women. Men want something they can actually hold on to.
~ Garcelle Beauvais
If Sigmund Freud had watched Phil Donahue he would never have wondered what women want.
~ Nora Ephron
a lady could do, so I was told, just about nothing that she might want to do except attend all parties.
~ Evalyn Walsh McLean
Why do Jewish men die before their wives? They want to.
~ Henny Youngman
Oh God, if you want women to never again raise their voices, then create an adult man!
~ Jean Giraudoux
The entire social order ... is arrayed against a woman who wants to rise to a man's reputation.
~ Madame de Stael
Girls like to see girls dressed up like princesses occasionally. Guys don"t really care, they just want to get the clothes off.
~ Nelly Furtado
Successful men don't date up. They are intimidated by wealthy women unless they are blue bloods. Successful men want to always take care of their women, and that means financially.
~ Patti Stanger
All men are afraid of eyelash curlers. They don't understand them, and they don't want to get near them. I sleep with one under my pillow, instead of a gun.
~ Rita Rudner
I think maybe it's too bad that our society isn't further along and this is such a big deal. I think it's time...that people realize that women in this country can do any job they want to do.
~ Sally Ride
Men who define themselves as breadwinners are going to have to leave the traditional iconography of masculinity behind if they want to be breadwinners.
~ Stephen Marche
Women want to serve, and this is where their happiness lies: but the free spirit does not want to be served, and this is where hishappiness lies.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
I don't really consider myself a female director, and I don't want to do so for other women. Female directors are just directors.
~ Alante Kavaite
I don't believe for a minute that women really want to be understood by men.
~ Allison Pearson