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Quotes About Gender

Women's studies is a comfy, chummy morass of unchallenged groupthink . It is, with rare exception, totally unscholarly. Academic feminists have silenced men and dissenting women.
~ Camille Paglia
Men are more sentimental than women. It blurs their thinking.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
Although approximately 80% of osteoporosis sufferers are women, as the longevity of the male population increases, the disease will assume increasing importance in men
~ Gro Harlem Brundtland
The Saudi government's denial of basic rights to women is not only wrong, it hurts Saudi Arabia's economic development, modernization and prosperity.
~ Barbara Boxer
We're not sexists, we're chauvinists - we're male chauvinist pigs, and we're happy to be because we think that's what men were destined to be. We think that's what women want.
~ Rush Limbaugh
One of my theories is that men love with their eyes; women love with their ears.
~ Zsa Zsa Gabor
There aren't any hard women, only soft men.
~ Raquel Welch
The extension of women's rights is the basic principle of all social progress.
~ Charles Fourier
I don't paint like a woman is supposed to paint. Thank God, art doesn't bother about things like that.
~ Alice Neel
We'll never solve the feminization of power until we solve the masculinity of wealth.
~ Gloria Steinem
I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.
~ Virginia Woolf
Both men and women should feel free to be sensitive. Both men and women should feel free to be strong... It is time that we all perceive gender on a spectrum not as two opposing sets of ideals.
~ Emma Watson
Gender equality, historically has been predominantly a women's movement for women. But I think the impact of gender inequality and how it's affecting men hasn't really been addressed.
~ Emma Watson
The United States is a place where the men govern, but the women rule.
~ John Brown
Ma, sooner or later there comes a point in a man's life when he's gotta face some facts. And one fact I've got to face is whateverit is women like, I ain't got it.
~ Paddy Chayefsky
A Negro woman has the same kind of problems as other women, but she can't take the same things for granted.
~ Dorothy Height
We cannot all succeed when half of us are held back.
~ Malala Yousafzai
In the seventies we had to make it acceptable for people to accept girls and women as athletes. We had to make it okay for them to be active. Those were much scarier times for females in sports.
~ Billie Jean King
There is no slave, after all, like a wife...Poor women, poor slaves All married women, all children and girls who live in their father's house are slaves.
~ Mary Boykin Chesnut
Women need to become literary "criminals," break the literary laws and reinvent their own, because the established laws prevent women from presenting the reality of their lives.
~ Kathy Acker
Women with whiskers... its a bummer.
~ Phil Robertson
Women are from their very infancy debarred those Advantages with the want of which they are afterwards reproached.
~ Mary Astell
I asked [my father] what there was to make doctoring more disgusting than nursing, which women were always doing, and which ladies had done publicly in the Crimea. He could not tell me.
~ Elizabeth Garrett Anderson
Now that women are jockeys, baseball umpires, atomic scientists, and business executives, maybe someday they can master parallel parking.
~ Bill Vaughan