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Quotes About Gender

I always run into strong women who are looking for weak men to dominate them.
~ Andy Warhol
What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife? And yet men expect that women shall put on altogether new characters when they are married, and girls think that they can do so.
~ Anthony Trollope
How can the world progress if women don't consider men ... the Man ... first?
~ Arlene Dahl
I am not elevating women to sainthood, nor am I suggesting that all women share the same views, or that all women are good and all men bad.
~ Bella Abzug
The woman's vision is deep-reaching, the man's far-reaching.
~ Betty Grable
A woman isn't as old as she thinks she is. She's as old as men think she is.
~ Billie Burke
Me never believe in marriage that muchmarriage is a trap to control me; woman is a coward. Man strong.
~ Bob Marley
I'm most proud of having created something that men never completely get.
~ Cathy Guisewite
I am glad that I am not a man, for then I should have to marry a woman.
~ Madame de Stael
Love is the history of a woman's life; it is an episode in man's. [Fr., L'amour est l'histoire de la vie des femmes; c'est un episode dans celle des hommes.]
~ Madame de Stael
First, they were bred when I was not capable to observe or before I was born; likewise the breeding of men is of a different manner from that of women.
~ Margaret Cavendish
Women suffer more from disappointment than men, because they have more of faith and are naturally more credulous.
~ Margaret of Valois
Men's need to dominate women may be based in their own sense of marginality or emptiness; we do not know its root, and men are making no effort to discover it.
~ Marilyn French
The chief drawback with men is that they are too talkative.
~ Marilyn Monroe
A man has to be Joe McCarthy to be called ruthless . . . all a woman has to do is put you on hold.
~ Marlo Thomas
If we want the most effective fighting force, we need to pick the most qualified capable man for the job, even if it's a woman.
~ Martha McSally
A woman who doesn't care what men think of her - ah, this is dangerous. This is the worst conceivable insult to the male ego.
~ Martha Shelley
Women flirt to keep their stock high, men to get somewhere.
~ Mignon McLaughlin
I read recently that women still make 30% less than men in the workplace. Which I think is fine, cause if we didn't make 30% more, you guys would marry each other.
~ Mike Birbiglia
When a woman is very, very bad, she is awful, but when a man is correspondingly good, he is weird.
~ Minna Antrim
The worst mistake a woman can make is to emulate a man.
~ Natalia Kills
First I would probably place men at the bottom of the food chain. On a grander scale, I would say they're reacting to change. Feminism has got to be part of that.
~ Neil LaBute
Woman's weakness, not man's merit, oftenest gains the suitor's victory.
~ Nicolas Chamfort
It is strange that modesty is the rule for women when what they most value in men is boldness.
~ Ninon de L'Enclos