Quotes About Gender

Modern American marriage is like a wire fence. The woman's the wire -the posts are the husband's.

There is more difference within the sexes than between them.

Breathes there a man with hide so tough Who says two sexes aren't enough?

Women have one great advantage over men. It is commonly thought that if they marry they have done enough, and need career no further. If a man marries, on the other hand, public opinion is all against him if he takes this view.

A woman means by unselfishness chiefly taking trouble for others; a man means not giving trouble to others. Thus each sex regards the other as basically selfish.

A man is a person who will pay two dollars for a one-dollar item he wants. A woman will pay one dollar for a two-dollar item she doesn't want.

The double standard of morality will survive in this world so long as the woman whose husband has been lured away is favoured with the sympathetic tears of other women, and a man whose wife has made off is laughed at by other men.

Men don't get cellulite. God might just be a man.

The male sex still constitute in many ways the most obstinate vested interest one can find.

There was never any reason to believe in any innate superiority of the male, except his superior muscle.

The desire of a man for a woman is not directed at her because she is a human being, but because she is a woman. That she is a human being is of no concern to him.

Buy old masters. They fetch a better price than old mistresses.

Sir, a woman preaching is like a dog's walking on his hind legs. It is not done well: but you are surprised to find it done at all.

Reason is an emotion for the sexless.

When men reach their sixties and retire, they go to pieces. Women just go right on cooking.

If school results were the key to power, girls would be running the world.

Long ago I understood that it wasn't merely my being a woman that was preventing my being welcomed into the world of what I long thought of as my peers. It was that I had succeeded in an undertaking few men have even attempted: I have become myself.

The sexes in each species of beings . . . are always true equivalents-equals but not identicals.

Christabel Pankhurst

Whether there are innately female leadership styles ... is not really the right question. It is more important to ask why there has been so little attention paid to women leaders over the years as well as why the styles of leading more often exhibited by women are particularly useful at this critical moment in history.

Once, power was considered a masculine attribute. In fact, power has no sex.

It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.

The reason that husbands and wives do not understand each other is because they belong to different sexes.

As a matter of biology, if something bites you it is probably female.