Quotes About Gender

I get kind of, um, bored by all the sexuality and gender labels because I feel like that's where the problem comes in, when people feel that they need to have these particular identities. If you didn't have these labels, and you just acted on how you genuinely felt at any point, then you wouldn't have anything to contend with.

The trouble with women umpires is that I couldn't argue with one. I'd put my arms around her and give her a little kiss.

Patriarchy is impotent and qualitatively unable to solve even the most simple problems in the cosmos such as picking up their own socks or placing a carton of milk back in the refrigerator after drinking from it.

Suppose the pay gap between men and women were magically eliminated. If that happened, simple arithmetic suggests that half of women would be unable to find what they regard as a suitable mate.

Women do kids. Women do cooking. Women doing everything. And yet, their position in society is totally unacceptable.

It's still unacceptable for women to have negative emotions, especially anger, and I was trying to write against that.

If it's unseemly and possibly dangerous for a man to be angry, it's totally unacceptable for a woman to be angry.

As a woman, I have faced issues that men do not have to face - sexism included. I think that all women have, and that is totally unacceptable.

Why don't women say what they want, why wait to be asked? Do women intuit that it is unacceptable to appear ambitious?

Most female actresses will have a very difficult time being made unattractive.

Moms Mabley blazed a path for female stand-ups in a housecoat and floppy hat. Phyllis Diller worked equally hard to make herself unattractive to men and non-threatening to women.

I was very worried about being unattractive because I think I look quite masculine. Sometimes I feel more masculine than feminine and I don't like it.

At least through most of the 1960s, I basically lived in a man's world, hardly speaking to a woman all day except to the secretaries. But I was almost totally unaware of myself as an oddity and had no comprehension of the difficulties faced by working women in our organization and elsewhere.

It's quite unbelievable that Charlie Crist is getting away with this reinvention of himself - this rewriting of history for blatantly political purposes. Other than his gender, the guy has flip-flopped on everything, and I don't put that past him either.

I've got six brothers, so I grew up with all boys, then I moved in with three girls, and the differences were incredible. Living in a very feminine house threw me a bit. The bathroom was unbelievable; it was like a chemist's.

Can you imagine the Mail on Sunday asking the weight of the prime minister, George Osborne or any other leading politician? I just think it's unbelievable that in the 21st century women still get asked such very, very different questions from men.

To Barack Obama, if you believe in traditional marriage, you are a homophobe. If you believe men shouldn't go into women's bathrooms and showers, you are a bigot. If you believe the unborn have a right to life, you must hate women.

A terrible animal, indeed, is an unbridled woman.

Women don't go to war to kill other women. Wars and armies and nuclear weapons are essentially heterosexual hobbies.

In order to successfully impersonate men, the woman [Margaret Thatcher] launched a war.

Honey, the only experts in PMS are men. That's why men are so good at fighting wars; they learned Escape and Evade at home.

All war will end when women cease to find men in uniforms attractive - discuss.

Tatjana Soli, The Lotus Eaters

Men love war because it allows them to look serious because it is the only thing that stops women laughing at them.