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Quotes About Gender

My wife is a size zero and eats more than I do, and I'm a 6'4", 225 lb. man!
~ Nigel Barker
To be honest, the piece of clothing from a man's wardrobe I wear most often, to bed and around the house, is my boyfriend's underwear. I think it's infinitely unfair that women are compelled to wear underwear with a comfort factor of zero whilst men stroll around in essentially the most comfortable item of clothing ever made.
~ Emma Ishta
There's nothing that can drive me from zero to crazy faster than a man who comes up to me and says, 'You know, I don't normally read books by women, but I really liked 'Gone Girl.''
~ Gillian Flynn
I really like female singers; I've got zero interest in working with male singers. Any male voice I need to do, I can do.
~ Devin Townsend
When I first signed a contract with a women's team, my contract stated that if I played, I would get 100 pounds, and if I didn't play, it would be zero.
~ Lucy Bronze
You know, women not making dollar for dollar the same as a man is not new. It's been that way since day zero, since the founding of this country. And when you put African-American women and Hispanic women into the mix it's even worse than that.
~ Nina Turner
There is a mindset that has to be changed - the sense of entitlement of the man. That happens when you are bringing up someone. If you are going to differentiate between a boy and a girl from age zero, then he is bound to grow up with the sense of entitlement.
~ Sharmila Tagore
America's liberal arts universities have long been safe zones for leftist thinking, protected ivory towers for the pseudo-elite who earn their livings writing papers nobody reads about gender roles in the poetry of Maya Angelou.
~ Ben Shapiro
I'm not sure if guys are supposed to read Vanity Fair. I feel very metrosexual with it but am not sure it's in my comfort zone.
~ Mohsin Hamid
England Women regularly play against Under-15 and U-17 county men's sides, which is great for the girls to take them out of their comfort zones. It's important to find a balance, though, because the way in which women's cricket is played is still very different.
~ Isa Guha
One boy is more trouble than a dozen girls.
~ English proverb
Canada is so square even the female impersonators are women.
~ Anonymous
A Torontonian is a man who leaves culture to his wife.
~ Brendan Behan
Those mausoleums of inactive masculinity are places for men who prefer armchairs to women.
~ V. S. Pritchett
Debate is masculine; conversation is feminine.
~ Louisa May Alcott
Book reviewers are little old ladies of both sexes.
~ John O'Hara
Women distrust men too much in general, and too little in particular.
~ Philibert Commerson
Women can form a friendship with a man very well; but to preserve it, a slight physical antipathy most probably helps.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
We're half the people, we should be half the Congress.
~ Jeannette Rankin
[My father] said, Don't grow up to be a woman, and what he meant by that was, a housewife ... without any interests.
~ Maria Goeppert Mayer
In some remote regions of Islam it is said, a woman caught unveiled by a stranger will raise her skirt to cover her face.
~ Raymond Mortimer
If a man is pictured chopping off a woman's breast, it only gets an R rating, but if, God forbid, a man is pictured kissing a woman's breast, it gets an X rating. Why is violence more acceptable than tenderness?
~ Sally Struthers
Instead of getting hard ourselves and trying to compete, women should try to give their best qualities to men- bring them softness, teach them how to cry.
~ Joan Baez
You may try but you can never imagine what it is to have a man's form of genius in you, and to suffer the slavery of being a girl.
~ George Eliot