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Quotes About Gender

While farmers generally allow one rooster for ten hens, ten men are scarcely sufficient to service one woman.
~ Giovanni Boccaccio
I do ballads that say what every man wants to say and that every woman wants to hear, or I do songs about social issues.
~ Kenny Rogers
There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman.
~ Margaret Fuller
By the way, only a real man can accept his feminine side." "I don't know who fed you that line of garbage, but I can promise she's laughing at you right now.
~ Gena Showalter
I want to know what the difference between the essence of a man and woman is.
~ Tina Turner
And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better.
~ George Eliot
The arena of logic was made by men for men; it was expressly founded on the exclusion of what is not male, as well as what is not Greek, not Christian, nor Western, not Aryan.
~ Catharine MacKinnon
I have just as much woman in me as I have man. It's just a matter of channeling the energy into which way you use it.
~ Grace Jones
I detest the masculine point of view. I am bored by his heroism, virtue, and honour. I think the best these men can do is not talk about themselves anymore.
~ Virginia Woolf
The high-heeled shoe is a marvellously contradictory item; it brings a woman to a man's height but makes sure she cannot keep up with him.
~ Germaine Greer
If a man fights his adversaries, he's called determined. If a woman does it, she's frustrated.
~ Esther Peterson
A revolutionary woman can't have no reactionary man.
~ Assata Shakur
I have only hated men at those moments when I realized that I was doing all the giving and they the taking. At least when I was a prostitute, it was all honest and upfront.
~ Xaviera Hollander
Woman gives herself as a prize to the weak and as a prop to the strong and no man ever has what he should.
~ Cesare Pavese
I like movies about women behaving badly, because women behave badly just like men, and we're not always adorable and cute about it.
~ Greta Gerwig
Whatever happens, never forget that people would rather be led to perdition by a man, than to victory by a woman.
~ Rebecca West
Men are always ready to die for us, but not to make our lives worth having. Cheap sentiment and bad logic.
~ Louisa May Alcott, Jo's Boys
Man is no match for woman where mischief reigns.
~ Honore de Balzac
Men are committing the rapes. Let them be put under curfew.
~ Golda Meir
A man's home is his castle, and his wife is the janitor
~ Lucille Kallen
The common law of this state held man and wife to be one person, but that person was the husband.
~ Harriet Hanson Robinson
There must be an authority, and we believe that the most qualified authority in a household is the man's.
~ Jean-Marie Le Pen
For a woman to go out alone into architecture is still very, very hard. It's still a man's world.
~ Zaha Hadid
If men got pregnant, there would be safe, reliable methods of birth control. They'd be cheap, too.
~ Anna Quindlen