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Quotes About Gender

It's invisible, what women do. It's not rewarded as much.
~ Bjork
No matter how prosperous a man was, if he was unable to rule his women and his children (and especially his women) he was not really a man.
~ Chinua Achebe
The only women who don't believe that sexual harassment is a real problem in this country are women who have never been in the workplace.
~ Cynthia Heimel
Why are we still afraid of being other than men? Women are still in hiding.
~ Lucy R. Lippard
I love all of you men, but you women even more!
~ Strom Thurmond
Being frozen into the passive position of an object whose very existence depends on the eye of its beholder turn the educated modern Western women into a harem slave.
~ Fatema Mernissi
The great and almost only comfort about being a woman is that one can always pretend to be more stupid than one is and no one is surprised.
~ Freya Stark
I dont think a powerful man would be interesting unless hed be nice, attractive, with or without the power. Men are interested in powerful men. Women are interested in terrific men!
~ Dorothy Stratten
People often ask why comedy is harder for women, and the reason is because a tampon will sometimes fall out when you're on stage. Blokes don't have that worry.
~ Jenny Eclair
Women -- a mistake, or did He do it to us on purpose?
~ Jack Nicholson
The world over, give a guy money and it goes to drinking, gambling, and women. When you give a woman money, it goes to feeding, clothing, helping people.
~ Peter Buffett
We are in a double bind. We are expected to feel inferior not only as women, but because we are old.
~ Elizabeth Janeway
It's acceptable for men to act the fool. When women try, they're considered aggressive and opinionated.
~ Madeline Kahn
Women can be vivacious. We are allowed more varieties of facial expression and gestures. Men must be rocklike.
~ Gloria Steinem
Researchers have found very little difference between men and women in terms of the amount of time spent gossiping.
~ Kate Fox
I have women who offer to sleep with me all the time. But not men. They're all talk and nay action - as we'd say in Scotland.
~ Shirley Manson
Maybe studios don't want to see women acting in a way that isn't womanly. Maybe people don't.
~ Kristen Wiig
Women can do anything men can do, but often have more sense than even to be interested.
~ Ashleigh Brilliant
We cannot train women and forget about the men. We should train men to know the potential of women.
~ Sakena Yacoobi
There are few subjects that match the social significance of women's education in the contemporary world.
~ Amartya Sen
The Western sexual revolution sucks. It has not worked well enough for women.
~ Naomi Wolf
And whereas women had to fight to find their way into the workforce, men are now fighting to reclaim their place in the family structure.
~ Bob Geldof
If more women are in leadership roles, we'll stop assuming they shouldn't be.
~ Sheryl Sandberg
Women take clothing much more seriously than men. I've never seen a man walk into a party and say "Oh, my God, I'm so embarrassed; get me out of here. There's another man wearing a black tuxedo.
~ Rita Rudner