Quotes About Gender

Half the population of the entire world is women, and people are somehow shocked that this entire half is as capable as the other half.

It's rare to see women in a film who are not somehow validated by a male or discussing a male or heartbroken by a male,or end up being happy because of a male. It's interesting to think about, and it's very true.

I just think there are certain men who feel like engaging in a story told from a female point of view is somehow a feminizing experience. And that itself is something that they're almost supposed to not want to engage.

When a man strikes another man, he better have a good reason. There is never a good reason for a man to strike a woman.

It is astounding how women influence our entire ambit, and that's in this 'manly' world! They amaze you, don't they? And man, we get amazed!

Chorus of old men: How true the saying: 'Tis impossible to live with the baggages, impossible to live without 'em.

Boys find love in pants and girls find in pockets.

He was the most beautiful boy I had ever seen in my life. But he really looked like a girl. She was the most beautiful boy I'd ever seen in my life.

Love makes of the wisest man a fool and of the most foolish woman a sage.

Women are just beginning to see that there's something about being a woman that's innately different from being a man. I love what I'm seeing take place and I know Julia has so much to offer.

Men are from Mars and Women are from Venus. Where are Angels like you are from?

The weakness of a man is the strength of a woman

Virginia Alison, Heaven Scent

If I were born a woman, my clothes would be for any man with rough hands to tear down and my body to be made love to by any heart lost enough to love

A woman's lust is for a short time

Misogyny or misandry is not a status or a belief

A woman sees the strength and potentials in a man and pushes him through support to be the very best. A girl sees him as less than he is capable of achieving.

Giving context to how radical bloomers as an article of clothing were at the time] The women shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man, neither shall a man put on a woman's garment: for all that do so are abomination unto the Lord they God. - Deutronomy 22:5

I lament that women are systematically degraded by receiving the trivial attentions, which men think it manly to pay to the sex, when, in fact, they are insultingly supporting their own superiority.

That your sex are naturally tyrannical is a truth so thoroughly established as to admit of no dispute; but such of you as wish to be happy willingly give up the harsh title of master for the more tender and endearing one of friend. Why, then, not put it out of the power of the vicious and the lawless to use us with cruelty and indignity with impunity. Men of sense in all ages abhor those customs which treat us only as the vassals of your sex.

None of us have ever asked the men for anything, Agata states. Not a single thing, not even for the salt to be passed, not even for a penny or a moment alone or to take the washing in or to open a curtain or to go easy on the small yearlings or to put your hand on the small of my back as I try, again, for the twelfth or thirteenth time, to push a baby out of my body. Isn't it interesting, she says, that the one and only request the women would make of the men would be to leave?

I think Ray might have wanted a son. One night when I was seven or eight I announced to my family that I wanted to play hockey with the boys on Friday nights and Ray became just a little too eager. Okay he shouted. All right We have to get you a stick We have to get tape I'll be waiting in the car

They were apoplectically suspicious of higher learning—especially for girls. Public enemy number one for these men was a girl with a book.

I'm a post-menopausal woman who's lived in a man's world for twenty years. A more cynical, cruel creature it's hard to find.