Quotes About Gender

An Israeli woman is not like women in our societies, because she is a soldier.

It's like the riddle of the Sphinx... why are there so many great unmarried women, and no great unmarried men?

It is less difficult for a woman to obtain celebrity by her genius than to be forgiven for it.

Usually I object when someone makes over-much of men's work versus women's work, for I think it is the excellence of the results which counts.

If women are differentiated only by superficial physical attributes, men appear more individual and irreplaceable than they really are.

A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men.

When women are supposed to be quiet, a talkative woman is a woman who talks at all.

Women expect us to like them, but they don't even like each other

Women are, of course, more intelligent. Have you ever heard of a woman that would lose her head only because a man has pretty legs?

Men feel that women somehow drag them down, and women feel that way about men. It's possible that both are right.

What a great advantage a man can have over women, if he only knew what cold and calculating thoughts are going through her mind.... while her eyes are brimming with tears.

I was wearing women's jeans way before it was cool for guys to wear them. I have a weird torso - it's incredibly short, and only girl-pants fit me properly.

Men alone are not capable of making laws for men and women.

Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.

Women will only have true equality when men share with them the responsibility of bringing up the next generation.

I can cure your men of walking off the [flight] program. Let's put on the girls.

Christianity taught that men ought to be as chaste as pagans thought honest women ought to be; the contraceptive morality teaches that women need to be as little chaste as pagans thought men need be.

ALL men keep ALL women in a state of fear

I feel I must fight for [my music], because I want women to turn their minds to big and difficult jobs; not just to go on hugging the shore, afraid to put out to sea.

Meanwhile, every eighteen seconds a man beats a woman, every three minutes a man rapes a woman, and every day two men will murder women. And that's just in the United States.

People will sometimes say, "Why don't you write more politics?" And I have to explain to them that writing the lives of women IS politics.

one hundred percent of the bishops who oppose the repeal of anti-abortion laws are men and one hundred percent of the people who have abortions are women.

Putting women in military combat is the cutting edge of the feminist goal to force us into an androgynous society.

They're asking women to do impossible things. I don't believe women can carry a pack, live in a foxhole, or go a week without a bath.