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Quotes About Gender

Some pale, hueless flicker of sensitivity is in me. God, must I lose it in cooking scrambled eggs for a man.
~ Sylvia Plath
I prefer men to cauliflowers
~ Virginia Woolf
I realised long ago that skirts are hopeless. Anytime I hear a man say he prefers a woman in a skirt, I say, 'Try one. Try a skirt.'
~ Katharine Hepburn
And by the way, my belief is that if men were the ones getting pregnant, abortions would be easier to get than food poisoning in Moscow.
~ Dennis Miller
If a man speaks his mind in a forest, and no woman hears him, is he still wrong?
~ Ken Robinson
I've always had a problem with the average macho man - they've always been a threat to me.
~ Kurt Cobain
Plain women know more about men than beautiful women do.
~ Katharine Hepburn
A nun, at best, is only half a woman, just as a priest is only half a man.
~ H. L. Mencken
A woman's sphere of influence is a unique sphere, one that cannot be duplicated by men.
~ M. Russell Ballard
A woman's life in the orchestra is not as long as a man's; she is just not as good at 60 as a man is at 60.
~ Zubin Mehta
Checkers taught me that a King is a man with another man on top of him. But life taught me that that's actually called a Queen.
~ Demetri Martin
Sometimes a woman needs a man for company, no matter how useless he is.
~ Lisa Kleypas, Sugar Daddy
Keeping a feminine approach is vital - men hate bossy females.
~ Ida Lupino
You may try — but you can never imagine what it is to have a man's force of genius in you, and yet to suffer the slavery of being a girl.
~ George Eliot
They had always told me that I wrote like a man.
~ Ama Ata Aidoo
A woman's got as much right -and more cause - to get drunk than any man
~ Shelagh Delaney
Even nowadays a man can't step up and kill a woman without feeling just a bit unchivalrous.
~ Robert Benchley
Like when I had long hair, you kind of got male attention from everything. But when you had short hair, it was a different kind of man that was attracted to you or I found coming up.
~ Ashley Scott
It's always nerve-racking to take off your clothes on film. But doing it with a woman felt safer than with a man. You know you can say, 'Don't grab me there: That's where my cellulite is'!
~ Naomi Watts
If God had meant men to have children, he would have given them a PVC apron.
~ Victoria Wood
You see, dear, it is not true that woman was made from man's rib; she was made from his funny bone.
~ James M. Barrie
The moral influence of woman over man is almost always salutary.
~ John Stuart Mill
Every woman's man, and every man's woman.
~ Julius Caesar
One word of praise from a woman is dearer to me than a whole ode from a man . .
~ Maxim Gorky