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Quotes About Gender

Modern invention has banished the spinning wheel, and the same law of progress makes the woman of today a different woman from her grandmother.
~ Susan B. Anthony
Women receive he insults of men with tolerance, having been bitten in the nipple by their toothless gums.
~ Dilys Laing
Men are just as sensitive, and in some ways more sensitive, than women are.
~ Barbara De Angelis
Few women care to be laughed at and men not at all, except for large sums of money.
~ Alan Ayckbourn
There is a battle that goes on between men and women. Many people call it love.
~ Edvard Munch
The only possible reason the Republicans have declared a war on women is they must think women have oil.
~ Andy Borowitz
The accusation that I am a woman is incontrovertible.
~ Frances Perkins
Toxic masculinity hurts men, but there's a big difference between women dealing with the constant threat of being raped, beaten, and killed by the men in their lives, and men not being able to cry.
~ Robert Jensen
Promiscuity in men may cheapen love but sharpen thought. Promiscuity in women is illness, a leakage of identity.
~ Camille Paglia
No country can ever truly flourish if it stifles the potential of its women and deprives itself of the contributions of half of its citizens.
~ Michelle Obama
I recognize no rights but human rights - I know nothing of men's rights and women's rights.
~ Angelina Grimke
Punch a man on the nose, kick an old man downstairs, shoot somebody or any old thing like that, that's my job. But argue with women in love—no thank you!
~ Mikhail Bulgakov
The woman, in a battle of fists or guns, may not be as great a power as a man; but a woman behind a vote is every bit as useful as a man.
~ Irene Parlby
Sometimes I have a notion that what might improve the situation is to have women take over the occupations of government and trade and to give men their freedom.
~ Phyllis McGinley
One out of forty American men wears women's clothing. We've had more than forty presidents. One of these guys has been dancing around the Oval Office in a prom dress.
~ Allison Janney
What is being called the UN 'gender architecture' is more like a shack. Women need a bigger global house if equality is ever to become a reality.
~ Charlotte Bunch
I think a balanced team of men and women makes better decisions. That's one of the reasons why I was prepared to run for deputy leader.
~ Harriet Harman
Within the various acts of the ecodrama should be included scenes in which men's and women's roles come to center stage and scenes in which Nature 'herself' is an actress.
~ Carolyn Merchant
Women comedy is different than men comedy. Guy comedy is very aggressive, it's about insulting each other, name-calling, and kind of busting each other's chops, and that's not what women's comedy is.
~ Paul Feig
A woman can say more in a sigh than a man can say in a sermon.
~ Arnold Haultain
The fixed stars signify the angel in man. That is why man orients himself by them; and that is why women have no appreciation for the starry sky; because they have no sense of the angel in man.
~ Otto Weininger
I didn't know there were this many math guys," Hale said as they stepped onto the crowded concourse. Kat cleared her throat. "And women," he added. "Math women.
~ Ally Carter
Men like me because I dont wear a brassiere. Women like me because I dont look like a girl who would steal a husband. At least not for long.
~ Jean Harlow
In many parts of the world, a man's accusing finger always finds a woman. But I think we need women to solve the problems that men create.
~ Khaled Hosseini