Quotes About Gender

It's okay to be a fat man. It's prestige and power and all of that. But fat women are seen as just lazy and stupid and having no self-control.

Women with money and women in power are two uncomfortable ideas in our society.

Man may have discovered fire, but women discovered how to play with it.

That's the difference between girls and women: Girls find men fascinating. Women know better.

Sometimes I think all the trouble in the world is caused by men. If there were no men, women would always be happy. ~Carrie

The enemy perhaps may challenge my sex for that I am a woman - so may I likewise challenge them, for they are but men.

You're a woman, women are pigs.You pig-woman* Well,that Miss Federal Pigs to you*

Si las mujeres de esta familia no hubieran sido tan estúpidas y los hombres tan ambiciosos, se habrían ahorrado años de dolor.

Adding to her frustration was the much more frequent attention being given to her gender. Throughout the twenties, Frances was hailed as "one of the most famous scenario writers" or "highest paid scenarist" and now The Big House was promoted in the Los Angeles Examiner under the headline "Woman Writes Film Plot of Penitentiary.

Women, particularly in big cities, live with a constant wariness. Their lives are literally on the line in ways men just don't experience. Ask some man you know, "When is the last time you were concerned or afraid that another person would harm you?" Many men cannot recall an incident within years. Ask a woman the same question and most will give you a recent example or say, "Last night," "Today," or even "Every day." Still

Whether or not men can relate to it or believe it or accept it, that is the way it is. Women, particularly in big cities, live with a constant wariness. Their lives are literally on the line in ways men just don't experience.

Most men fear getting laughed at or humiliated by a romantic prospect while most women fear rape and death.

It is understandable that the perspectives of men and women on safety are so different--men and women live in different worlds...at core, men are afraid women will laugh at them, while at core, women are afraid men will kill them.

At core, men are afraid women will laugh at them, while at core, women are afraid men will kill them.

One is in the cultural taboo against rounded bellies. Fashion dictates that both men and women must have flat bellies. The gaunt fashion-model look still has power over certain segments of the population, as does the ramrod-straight military-inspired look for men.

The average married man, if he had the energy, could have sex with several women without diminishing the affection and desire he felt for his wife. But women like Judith- unlike truly liberated females like Barbara and Arlene- could not simply accept a man as a temporary instrument of pleasure; they wanted soft lights and promises, not just a penis but the man attached to it.

Men admitted to being endlessly fascinated with the naked female form; they appreciated women in a detached, impersonal way that women, even those women who were flattered by such attention, rarely understood.

in a male-dominated world, Reich suggested, there was an "economic interest" in the continued role of women as "the provider of children for the state" and the performer of household chores without pay.

It seemed that the penis per se, except to male homosexuals, was not a very salable commodity in the sexual marketplace of America. Few women could be aroused by the sight of an erect penis unless they were warmly disposed to the man who was attached to it.

The penis, often regarded as a weapon, is also a burden, the male curse.

One day she told me that they'd decided that my gender was divvied into two neat piles-Men and Guys. Basically, all the saints of the world: Men. The jerks, the players, the wet T-shirt contest aficionados? They were Guys.

Men are such boys.

That happens a lot with Shakespeare. The women go after what they want; the men wind up suckered into things.

you think the whole thing was an act? Was a fake?" I shake my head... "I daresay it was real in the moment," she says, measuring her words. "But men are different than women. Their emotions are capricious.