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Quotes About Gender

White women are a problem, that's, you know - we all live with that.
~ William Kristol
When they told me my new-born babe was a girl, my heart was heavier than it had ever been before. Slavery is terrible for men; but it is far more terrible for women.
~ Harriet Ann Jacobs
I wonder how people decided that women were supposed to shave their legs and armpits
~ Natalie Portman
Among civilized peoples, especially the very wealthy population of the United States of America, women have become objects of luxury who consume but do not produce.
~ Vilfredo Pareto
Men have been trained and conditioned by women, not unlike the way Pavlov conditioned his dogs, into becoming their slaves.
~ Esther Vilar
Men lie the most, women tell the biggest lies... a man's lie is, "I'm at Tony house, I was at Kenny house!" A woman lie is like, "It's your baby!"
~ Chris Rock
In those rare individual cases where women approach genius they also approach masculinity.
~ Otto Weininger
Some leaders are born women.
~ Geraldine Ferraro
I consider that women who are authors, lawyers, and politicians are monsters.
~ Pierre-Auguste Renoir
It is not women's liberation, it is women's and men's liberation.
~ Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Nobody can influence me, nobody. Still less a woman. Women are important in a man's life only if they're beautiful and charming and keep their femininity.
~ Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
Just as women's bodies are softer than men's, so their understanding is sharper.
~ Christine de Pizan
never believe a man can change a woman those men are pretenders who think that they created women from one of their ribs
~ Nizar Qabbani
The real mistake of women was to let the memoir, the collective, the history, space of producing history - to let it in the hands of men.
~ Fatema Mernissi
The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses.
~ Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Politics gives guys so much power that they tend to behave badly around women. And I hope I never get into that.
~ William J. Clinton
I saw no poor men, except a few intemperate ones. I saw some very poor women; but God and man know that the time has not come for women to make their injuries even heard of.
~ Harriet Martineau
Men who teach only men are called scholars. Women who teach only women are called political agitators.
~ Dale Spender
Men and women are immigrants in each other's worlds.
~ Yakov Smirnoff
Microfinance is an incredibly powerful tool ... but we must move beyond micro-hopes and micro-ambitions for women.
~ Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
The enemy of feminism isn't men. It's patriarchy, and patriarchy is not men. It is a system, and women can support the system of patriarchy just as men can support the fight for gender equality.
~ Justine Musk
It is probably true to say that the largest scope for change still lies in men's attitude to women, and in women's attitude to themselves.
~ Vera Brittain
Most men fear getting laughed at or humiliated by a romantic prospect while most women fear rape and death.
~ Gavin de Becker
Sanitation issues in the developing world affect women more than they affect men.
~ Melinda Gates