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Quotes About Gender

I'm not a person who thinks the world would be entirely different if it was run by women. If you think that, you've forgotten what high school was like.
~ Madeleine Albright
The government passed more laws to protect women from dirty jokes than to protect men from death by faulty rafters at a construction site.
~ Warren Farrell
We 've lost something else: the relationship between men and women.
~ John Henrik Clarke
And, over the last thirty years we have seen men's participation in both housework and childcare has increased and women's have stayed at about the same.
~ James Levine
If women had to promise to provide for a man for a lifetime before he removed his veil and showed her his smile, would we think of this as a system of female privilege?
~ Warren Farrell
I would rather trust a woman's instinct than a man's reason.
~ Stanley Baldwin
Suffer women once to arrive at an equality with you, and they will from that moment become your superiors.
~ Cato the Elder
You can always rely on a society of equals taking it out on the women.
~ Alan Sillitoe
What doesn't kill men makes them stronger. What doesn't kill women makes men breakfast.
~ Carrie Fisher
And the first commandment of feminism is: I am woman; thou shalt not tolerate strange gods who assert that women have capabilities or often choose roles that are different from men's.
~ Phyllis Schlafly
To open avenues to political place and power for all classes of women would cause these humble labors of the family and school to be still more undervalued and shunned.
~ Catharine Beecher
They're not women's clothes. They're my clothes. I bought them.
~ Eddie Izzard
Women should look like women. A piece of cardboard has no sexuality.
~ Alexander McQueen
According to a recent survey, men say the first thing they notice about women is their eyes. And women say the first thing they notice about men is they're a bunch of liars.
~ Jay Leno
My theory is that men are no more liberated than women.
~ Indira Gandhi
Every country that has experimented with women in actual combat has abandoned the idea, and the notion that Israel uses women in combat is a feminist myth.
~ Phyllis Schlafly
All through life there were distinctions - toilets for men, toilets for women; clothes for men, clothes for women - then, at the end, the graves are identical.
~ Leila Aboulela
Men are jerks. Women are psychotic.
~ Kurt Vonnegut
An androgynous mind was not a male mind. It was a mind attuned to the full range of human experience, including the invisible lives of women.
~ Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
I have noticed... that men usually leave married women alone and are inclined to treat all wives with respect. This is no great credit to married women.
~ Marilyn Monroe
There are plenty of images of women in science fiction. There are hardly any women.
~ Joanna Russ
The desire for freedom and independence becomes more of an issue for many men in relationships, whereas interdependence and connection become more of an issue for many women.
~ Deborah Tannen
Men know they are sexual exiles. They wander the earth seeking satisfaction, craving and despising, never content. There is nothing in that anguished motion for women to envy.
~ Camille Paglia
Societies that empower women are less violent in every way.
~ Steven Pinker