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Quotes About Gender

It's okay to be a fat man. It's prestige and power and all of that. But fat women are seen as just lazy and stupid and having no self-control.
~ Camryn Manheim
I've always had mostly women come out to see me perform. That's the reason the guys show up; they know R. Kelly is going to draw the women. Most of the songs I'm singing are catering to women anyway.
~ R. Kelly
There's always something funny about men chasing women.
~ David Spade
A world without men would consists of a bunch of fat, happy women with no crime.
~ Jennifer Love Hewitt
While men represent powerful activity as assertion and aggression, women in contrast portray acts of nurturance as acts of strength.
~ Carol Gilligan
All mankind rules its women, and we rule all mankind, but our women rule us.
~ Cato the Elder
I'm not that big a fan of marriage as an institution, and I don't know why women need to have children to be seen as complete human beings.
~ Marisa Tomei
A clever woman often compromises her husband; a stupid woman only compromises herself.
~ Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
When women hold off from marrying men, we call it independence. When men hold off from marrying women, we call it fear of commitment.
~ Warren Farrell
Some people think I'm saying, 'Women of the world unite -- you have nothing to lose but your men. It's not true. You have nothing to lose but your vacuum cleaners.
~ Betty Friedan
Because women and girls are not valued equally as human beings, they are treated as less than such. Female genital mutilation is one example of this that has to be stopped.
~ Waris Dirie
Culture stereotypes women to fit the myth by flattening the feminine into beauty-without-intelligence or intelligence-without-beauty; women are allowed a mind or a body but not both.
~ Naomi Wolf
Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less.
~ Susan B. Anthony
Men are clinging to football on a level we aren't even aware of. For centuries, we ruled everything, and now, in the last ten minutes, there are all these incursions by women. It's our Alamo.
~ Tony Kornheiser
Let me tell you something: The only thing that separates women of color from anyone else is opportunity. You cannot win an Emmy for roles that are simply not there.
~ Viola Davis
So long as women are slaves, men will be knaves.
~ Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Those that think my clothes are androgynous also still believe that women should look like Barbie dolls. That's precisely the problem, the deep-rooted assumptions about what is feminine.
~ Ann Demeulemeester
I just know that there are two theories when arguing with women. And neither one works.
~ John Marston
Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.
~ John Berger
I came to realize that we don't raise boys to be men, we raise them not to be women.
~ Don McPherson
The movie industry is failing women. And until the industry starts making serious changes, nothing is going to change.
~ Manohla Dargis
Women are all female impersonators to some degree.
~ Susan Brownmiller
Women who love themselves are threatening; but men who love real women, more so.
~ Naomi Wolf
I certainly think that 10 to 20 years from now, clearly the majority of veterinarians will be women.
~ Richard Adams