Quotes About Gender

Men always want to be remembered whereas women realize that requires being dead.

Feminists have not tried to "destroy the family". We just thought the family was such a good idea that men might want to get involved in it too.

Hillary Clinton wants to run on the historic nature of her candidacy. I will force her to run on accountability for the Clinton way.

People don't always want to have females as leaders.

The very first email I got [was] from a women's group saying 'We don't want this stimulus package to just create jobs for burly men.'

The Egyptian society needs to include its women if it wants to have economic prosperity.

Most women do not want to be liberated from their essential natures as women.

A bludgeon of wives (surely that must be the plural assignation)!

It must be taken as given that a man who happens to be the world's most powerful, most terrible, most deadly sorceror, must have a woman at his side. But it does not follow, my children, that a woman of similar proportions requires a man at hers.

Gruntle subsided, muttering under his breath. Gods, I wish the world was full of passive, mewling women. He thought about that a moment longer, then scowled. On second thought, what a nightmare that'd be. It's the job of a man to fan the spark into flames, not quench it …

On a cobbled beach, a man looks down and sees one rock, then another and another. A woman looks down and sees…rocks. But perhaps even this is simplistic. Man as singular and women as plural. More likely we are bits of both, some of one in the other. We just don't like admitting it.

It's a fact that men don't need words, but women do. We have penises, after all. Who needs words when you have a penis? Whereas with women there are two breasts, which invites conversation, just as a good behind presents perfect punctuation, something every man knows. What's wrong with the world? You ask a man and he says, 'Don't ask.' Ask a woman and you'll be dead of old age before she's finished.

any exchange of words with a woman was fraught with her torturer's array of deadly implements, each one hovering at the very edge of a man's comprehension.

You're thinking like a man. That's your mistake. It's all our mistakes, in fact. It's why we're standing out here, three men, no women. If we'd gone and said, why, Precious, we wouldn't even think of it, you know what she'd say then? "What's wrong with me? Am I too ugly or something?" and we'd be in trouble all over again!' Gruntle glanced bemusedly at Mappo, who, rather cryptically, simply nodded.

It's a fact that men don't need words, but women do. We have penises, after all. Who needs words when you have a penis? Whereas with women there are two breasts, which invites conversation, just as a good behind presents perfect punctuation, something every man knows . What's wrong with the world? You ask a man and he says, 'Don't ask.' Ask a woman and you'll be dead of old age before she's finished. Hah. Hah ha.

Reagan called Allen two hours later when he was changing planes in Chicago, asking, "Who is he?" "Who is who?" Allen replied. "Who is this Jeane Kirkpatrick?" "Well, first, he's a she."71

Women everywhere had higher scores in two of these categories—social responsibility and empathy—while men universally scored higher on stress tolerance.

She noted the lack of female hardware hackers, and was enraged at the male hacker obsession with technological play and power.

If a man says something in the woods and there are no women there, is he still wrong?

Women. Can't live with 'em, can't shoot 'em.

Dressed as man, and with all the poise of someone at least six years older, he had learned quickly from his Magravandian classmates.

An androgynous deity has many ways of manifesting.

The sacrifice of men guarantees we women still have these splendid domains to wander around, but we wander around them alone.

The men, comparitively dull beings in this house of feminine finery, were dashing nonetheless in tight clothes of viridian and iron blue, gold earrings glittering among the oiled ringlets around their shoulders.