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Quotes About Gender

Not until the space shuttle started flying did NASA concede that some astronauts didn't have to be fast-jet pilots. And at that point, sure enough, women started becoming astronauts.
~ Henry Spencer
It was the era when women were in the kitchen. Space travel was the old-boy network.
~ Wally Funk
he was so beautiful because when he held her he was not concerned with 'being a man.' 'being a man' had nothing to do with this. these flowers pouring from his chest. – weightless
~ Nayyirah Waheed, Salt
they say that girls are the ones who want fairy tail endings, but then again, who are the authors of fairy tales? mostly men...
~ Alina Radoi
Never blame men, they have too many responsibilities because they live in a country where they are being taught to take up the burden since they get an erection.
~ Himmilicious
Womanly Power: Hurting a man and then making him apologize.
~ Rebecca Warner
A man is just as sensitive as a woman because we are all human.
~ Terraine Francois
We are faithful as long as we love, but youdemand faithfulness of a woman without love, and the giving ofherself without enjoyment. Who is cruel there--woman or man?
~ Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
This is a love story. It's about the good old days, when men were men and women were women and books were books.
~ Jonathan Galassi, Muse
It has been my experience, that women possess little or no pride where love affairs are concerned. Pride is a quality often on their lips, but not apparent in their actions.
~ Agatha Christie, Towards Zero
Poverty does not always prevent a rich person from dating someone who is poor, unless the man is the one who is poor.
~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana
When anyone thinks a woman who serves "gives 'cause that's what mothers or real women do, " they deny her full humanity and thus fail to see the generosity inherent in her acts.
~ bell hooks
When a lady is ready to marry, she has to wait for a man to come for her.When a man is ready to marry, he just has to make his choice
~ Faithful Akpaloo
Man loves pleasure. But women desire purposeful commitment.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
You don't love Buck. If you did, you'd have four kids by now. Wouldn't you? Now wouldn't you? A woman like you...
~ Erskine Caldwell
Take women out of their lives, and great wealth would be useless to most men. It is this inherent desire of man to please woman, which gives woman the power to make or break a man.
~ Napoleon Hill
In the past, only some of the males, but all of the females, were able to procreate. Equality is more natural for females.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Assume that you live in a town with two hospitals—one large, the other small. On a given day 60 percent of those born in one of the two hospitals are boys. Which hospital is it likely to be?
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Si veo a una mujer embarazada, el sexo del niño que lleva en su seno es para mí una cuestión puramente aleatoria (un 50% para cada sexo); pero no para el ginecólogo, que podría haber hecho una ecografía. En la práctica, la aleatoriedad es fundamentalmente información incompleta.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Men are judged, and are encouraged to judge themselves, by how well they can financially take care of others. Men are socialized to be "servants" fully as much as women; only the forms of culturally encouraged servitude are different. If a man cannot support a woman, he tends to lose stature in her eyes and in his own.
~ Nathaniel Branden
In therapy I have found that one of the most powerful ways to help men and women become more effective in love relationships is to work with them on their relationship to their opposite-gender-self
~ Nathaniel Branden
America is now wholly given over to a damned mob of scribbling women
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
America is now wholly given over to a damned mob of scribbling women, and I should have no chance of success while the public taste is occupied with their trash--and should be ashamed of myself if I did succeed. What is the mystery of these innumberable editions of The Lamplighter (by Maria Susanna Cummins), and other books neither better nor worse? Worse they could not be, and better they need not be, when they sell by the hundred thousand.
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
Or this:—that the whole universe, her own sex and yours, and Providence, or Destiny, to boot, make common cause against the woman who swerves one hair's breadth out of the beaten track.
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne