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Quotes About Gender

Once women are not excluded, I don't think any of us will give a damn what pronouns are used. That wasn't the point.
~ Holly Near
Anything that increases the voice of young women tends therefore to reduce the fertility rate.
~ Amartya Sen
People said women couldn't swim the Channel, but I proved they could.
~ Gertrude Ederle
Men have to be hooked. Women don't need that. Women go freely into anything. That's their power and at the same time their drawback. Men have to be led and women have to be contained
~ Carlos Castaneda
I single handedly revolutionised women's roles in the WWE, before me all women were eye candy.
~ Amy Dumas
(Male) culture was (and is) parasitical, feeding on the emotional strength of women without reciprocity.
~ Shulamith Firestone
If Miss means respectably unmarried, and Mrs. respectably married, then Ms. means nudge, nudge, wink, wink.
~ Angela Carter
It all comes down, as it must, to the desires of individual men. Oh, and women too of course, bless their empty little heads.
~ Thomas Pynchon
. .women are house as well as factory slaves and are forced to bear a double workload.
~ Clara Zetkin
The system of heroism depends on women to be weak so men can be strong.
~ Susan Faludi
The biggest changes in a women's nature are brought by love; in man, by ambition
~ Rabindranath Tagore
Men never fail to underestimate women.
~ Zhao Yun
Lives in previous centuries for women are largely a matter of class. It would have been fun to have been a rich, privileged woman in the 18th century, but no fun at all to be her maid.
~ Antonia Fraser
A culture that doesn't respect half its population will never prosper.
~ Wafa Sultan
This is an issue that women are not interested in debating.
~ Rona Ambrose
Women have always been the strong ones of the world. The men are always seeking from women a little pillow to put their heads down on. They are always longing for the mother who held them as infants.
~ Coco Chanel
We can't destroy the inequities between men and women until we destroy marriage.
~ Robin Morgan
I think women are concerned too much with their clothes. Men don't really care that much about women's clothes. If they like a girl, chances are they'll like her clothes.
~ Hedy Lamarr
Many men honestly do not know what women want, and women honestly do not know why men find what they want so hard to comprehend and deliver.
~ Deborah Tannen
The origins of violence against women by men are not biological. If that were the case, it would exist in every culture. And it doesn't exist in every culture.
~ Gloria Steinem
I love women's fashion, but women don't need me as much as men do. It's the men who have nothing to wear.
~ Roberto Cavalli
Simple femininity is the most important thing about a woman, and it is a quality a great many women are in jeopardy of losing. Women are being emancipated out of their femininity in this modern age.
~ Yul Brynner
Women will always pay the price for love, that is why God makes us so much stronger than men.
~ Robin Lim
Women know when they've got the menopause but men don't quite know. They know it afterwards.
~ Omar Sharif