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Quotes About Gender

Men fall in love with their eyes. Women fall in love with their ears.
~ Phil McGraw
A man who moralizes is a hypocrite, and a woman who does so is invariably plain.
~ Oscar Wilde
Woman, in short, has an unconscious life, man a conscious life, and the genius the most conscious life.
~ Otto Weininger
They took a survey: Why do men get up in the middle of the night? Ten percent get up to go to the bathroom and 90 percent get up to go home.
~ Rodney Dangerfield
...counselling man to treat her as a slave while persuading her that she is a queen.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
Never let a beautiful woman pick your path for you when there is a man in her line of sight
~ Terry Goodkind
No man should ever publish a book until he has first read it to a woman.
~ Van Wyck Brooks
Woman, no less than man, can qualify herself for the more onerous occupations of life.
~ Victoria Woodhull
If you are flattering a woman, it pays to be a little more subtle. You don't have to bother with men, they believe any compliment automatically.
~ Alan Ayckbourn
This has always been a man's world, and none of the reasons that have been offered in explanation have seemed adequate.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
Too many women have given up the power over the years because men have created the terms.
~ Steve Harvey
Men are just as vain as women, and sometimes even more so.
~ Helena Rubinstein
...the man of my dreams is a girl.
~ Julie Anne Peters
A couple of hanging glands have nothing to do with making someone a man.
~ Cynthia Nixon
If men don't have to be aggressive in order to be accepted, women won't feel compelled to be submissive. If men don't have to control, women won't have to be controlled.
~ Emma Watson
I think dancing is a man's game and if he does it well he does it better than a woman.
~ Gene Kelly
That was the way of this cold world, where men fished the sea and dug in the ground and died, whilst women brought forth short-lived children from beds of blood and pain.
~ George R. R. Martin
There are poems about the internet and about the shipping forecast but very few by women celebrating men.
~ Germaine Greer
I think it's better if blokes can admit that they can have crushes on other blokes. I've probably had crushes but never really sexual crushes on men.
~ Graham Coxon
A woman's intuition has often proved truer than a man's arrogant assumption of knowledge.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Man proposes, woman forecloses.
~ Minna Antrim
Every problem in history is due to men, so I'm basically asking for humanity to nest itself in a feminine culture, probably for the next 1,000 years.
~ Patch Adams
Men always want to be a woman's first love. That is their clumsy vanity. We women have a more subtle instinct about things.
~ Oscar Wilde
Women hear rhythm differently than men.
~ Elvis Costello