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Quotes About Gender

When women act like women, they are accused of being inferior. When women act like human beings, they are accused of behaving like men.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a generation.
~ Brigham Young
I think men talk to women so they can sleep with them and women sleep with men so they can talk to them.
~ Jay McInerney
The best way to improve economic prospects for women is to improve job prospects for the men in their lives, even if that means increasing the so-called pay gap.
~ Phyllis Schlafly
The best thermometer to the progress of a nation is its treatment of its women.
~ Swami Vivekananda
The best judge of whether or not a country is going to develop is how it treats its women
~ Barack Obama
I was admonished ot adopt feminine clothes; I refused, and still refuse. As for other avocations of women, there are plenty of other women to perform them.
~ Joan of Arc
The task of organizing human happiness needs the active cooperation of man and woman: it cannot be relegated to one half of the world.
~ Lillian Wald
World will prosper in knowledge and intellect, if both men and women are deemed equal.
~ Subramanya Bharathi
There are three classes of human beings: men, women and women physicians.
~ William Osler
As long as the family and the myth of the family ... have not been destroyed, women will still be oppressed.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
Indian men are still used to the traditional role given to women; they want intelligent girls for company but not to marry... they have yet to taste and relish the company of mature women.
~ Amrita Pritam
A strong man can handle a strong woman. A weak man will say she has an attitude problem
~ Boonaa Mohammed
If a woman wants to fly, first of all she must, of course, abandon skirts and don a knickerbocker uniform.
~ Harriet Quimby
In revenge and in love, woman is more barbarous than man.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Women are the holders of all knowledge, everything a man knows he stole from a woman.
~ Bill Mollison
Only he who is man enough will release the woman in woman.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Women have babies and men provide the support. If you don't like the way we're made you've got to take it up with God.
~ Phyllis Schlafly
I believe that women have a capacity for understanding and compassion which a man structurally does not have, does not have it because he cannot have it. He's just incapable of it.
~ Barbara Jordan
Men are gentle, honest and straightforward. Women are convoluted, deceptive and dangerous.
~ Erin Pizzey
To recommend that women become identical to men, would be simple reversal, and would defeat the whole point of androgyny, and for that matter, feminism: in both, the whole point is choice.
~ Carolyn Heilbrun
In a society where the rights and potential of women are constrained, no man can be truly free. He may have power, but he will not have freedom.
~ Mary Robinson
A man told me that for a woman, I was very opinionated. I said, 'for a man you're kind of ignorant'.
~ Anne Hathaway
Each test pilot I know considers him, or herself, now that there are women, to be the very best. It's very demeaning to step down the ladder once in a while
~ Wally Schirra