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Quotes About Gender

What a man can take with a sword, a woman can give by her flesh alone. Life.
~ Robin Hobb
Men always marry younger girls, but sometimes when a women who's very mature marries a younger man, she's criticized. It needs to be corrected.
~ Sophia Loren
Women become breadwinners, men become caregivers. That's the birth of intimate marriage.
~ Stephen Marche
Men are shallow - we don't remember things like women do. Or we don't bring it up and blurt it out at inappropriate moments. When bridges are trying to be built, we don't detonate them.
~ Steve Lillywhite
A woman can do anything a man can do today and then some. She can even have a child without a man.
~ Tony Robbins
So we've moved from an era when women's biology was women's destiny to today, which is an era in which men's biology is men's destiny.
~ Warren Farrell
O constancy, be strong upon my side, Set a huge mountain 'tween my heart and tongue! I have a man's mind, but a woman's might.
~ William Shakespeare
I can kind of fit the women's and the men's samples in a very similar way, just because of where my body is in my life, and I feel like it's modern to mix.
~ Hari Nef
"Diiiie men." If you play any Broad City episode backwards, that's all we're saying.
~ Ilana Glazer
The hardest thing for me is crying. Where I'm from, it's been instilled in me since I was little that men don't cry. Thank God for teardrops and menthol.
~ Jacob Lofland
Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything.
~ Jane Austen
Dare not say that man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death. I have loved none but you.
~ Jane Austen
A man has every season while a woman only has the right to spring.
~ Jane Fonda
We need to ditch the idea that there is any value in the strong and silent man being in any way attractive. Being silent isn't being strong, it's being a victim.
~ Jane Powell
Women speak at an earlier age, more easily, and more agreeably than men; they are accused also of speaking more; this is as it should be, and I willingly change the reproach into a eulogy.
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Well, I think mostly we're dressing for men.
~ Jerry Hall
A man's presence suggests what he is capable of doing to you or for you. By contrast, a woman's presence... defines what can and cannot be done to her.
~ John Berger
Most men think they are good drivers. Most women think they are good in bed. They aren't.
~ Jonathan Carroll
A blonde girl wearing a man's shirt but in all other visible respects unmanly to the point of outright effeminacy.
~ Kingsley Amis
The tragedy of marriage is that while all women marry thinking that their man will change, all men marry believing their wife will never change.
~ Len Deighton
I can only approach it as a woman. Masculinity has been depicted in very black-and-white terms. There never seems to be a wide range of emotional definitions of men.
~ Collier Schorr
The last thing a man becomes progressive about is the activities of his own wife.
~ Crystal Eastman
I hate men who are in touch with their feminine side.
~ David Bailey
There are practical little things in housekeeping which no man really understands.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt