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Quotes About Gender

I need someone physically stronger than me.... I am always on top. It's really unfortunate. I am begging for the man that can put me on the bottom. Or the woman. Anybody that can take me down.
~ Angelina Jolie
People say, ''I'm a woman trapped in a man's body'' or ''I'm a man trapped in a woman's body,'' but I say ''I'm trapped in a body.''
~ Genesis P-Orridge
After love, the man sleeps, while the woman reflects.
~ Monica Bellucci
Bowie's a real man, and I'm a real woman - just like Catherine Deneuve.
~ Iggy Pop
It is sometimes better to be a dead man than a live woman.
~ Matilda Joslyn Gage
Pride in a man is confused with dignity; in a woman, with self-love.
~ Jose Bergamin
The proportion of men must be reduced to and maintained at approximately 10% of the human race.
~ Sally Miller Gearhart
You can be a boy, a girl, whatever you want. I have a lot of man in me.
~ Grace Jones
A political man is disgusting, but a political wife, horrible.
~ Richard Wagner
The three great problems of this century; the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy of the child by darkness.
~ Victor Hugo
Unfortunately, most men would only be interested in a woman's mind if it bounced when she walked.
~ Ray Toro
I generally don't like living in a world where being what a man is, is a horrible thing; and no matter what a woman is, is a wonderful thing.
~ Patrice O'Neal
The feminine in the man is the sugar in the whisky. The masculine in the woman is the yeast in the bread. Without these ingredients the result is flat, without tang or flavor.
~ Edna Ferber
I like men to behave like men. I like them strong and childish.
~ Francoise Sagan
Had you fought like a man, you need not have been hang'd like a dog.
~ Anne Bonny
Both church and state claiming to be of divine origin have assumed divine right of man over woman; while church and state have thought for man, man has assumed the right to think for woman.
~ Matilda Joslyn Gage
Hinder me? Thou fool. No living man may hinder me!" "But no living man am I!
~ J. R. R. Tolkien
A man attaches himself to woman -- not to enjoy her, but to enjoy himself.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
Balls are to men what purses are to women.
~ Sarah Jessica Parker
Charm, in most men and nearly all women, is a decoration.
~ E. M. Forster
They say that women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men.
~ Clare Boothe Luce
The image of the woman as we know it is an image created by men and fashioned to suit their needs.
~ Kate Millett
We have the data to prove to men that gender equality is not a zero-sum game, but a win-win.
~ Michael Kimmel
The average man has a carefully cultivated ignorance about household matters - from what to do with the crumbs to the grocer's telephone number - a sort of cheerful inefficiency which protects him.
~ Crystal Eastman