Quotes About Gender

When a woman stands up and is strong and commanding, she's called bossy. When a man does the same thing, people say, 'They're strong.'

A lot of female comedians will go up there in a sweatshirt and Converses, trying to dress themselves down, because it is sort of a boy's club. I'll go up in my heels. I like that people don't think I'll be funny. I'll take that on. I don't do standup comedy - I do standup and I do comedy, but I don't go up there and do jokes.

I know how it feels to be a woman because I am a woman. And I won't be classified as just a man.

Women are smarter than men because they listen.

Men as a rule love with their eyes, woman with their ears.

Femininity and masculinity are social constructs. Female and male are biological. We don't have to learn to be men or women but we do have to learn to be ladies and gentlemen.

If I have a daughter and she plays tennis, and I have a son who plays tennis, I wouldn't say that my son deserves more money because he's a man. I would say they deserve the same amount of money.

White men have always controlled their wives' wages. Colored men were not able to do so until they themselves became free. Then they owned both their wives and their wages.

A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.

Men, in general, are a sort of scum, very different to anything of which you have an idea.

Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.

A lot of things affect women differently than men, and women get left out.

Human sexuality has been regulated and shaped by men to serve men's needs.

It is the function of women to teach men how to be human.

I would love to employ a man, but how can I possibly give a man dictation from the bath?

I'd love to be a man for a day, just to see what it's like.

But women do not say 'We', except at some congress of feminists or similar formal demonstration; men say 'women', and women use the same word in referring to themselves.

Looking to biology to explain the low prevalence of eating disorders among men is like looking to genetics to explain why nonsmokers do not get lung cancer as often as smokers.

I think a woman who is successful is critiqued more harshly than a man is critiqued.

One of the biggest problems with the modern feminist movement is its failure to bring men along with us.

But think about how evil that is for one man to think that he's actually more valuable than a woman, because as a human being your worth is immeasurable.

I would be content being a housewife if I could find the kind of man who wouldn't treat me like one.

O, the difference of man and man! To thee a woman's services are due.

Marriage is the operation by which a woman's vanity and a man's egotism are extracted without an anaesthetic.