Quotes About Gender

Men are prisoners of their genitalia and women are the keepers of the keys to paradise.

Nobody ever says to men, how can you be a Congressman and a father.

When a man does exactly what a woman expects him to do she doesn't think much of him. One should always do what a woman doesn't expect, just as one should say what she doesn't understand.

Don't try to teach men how to do anything in public. They can learn in private; in public they have to know.

Women seem to have almost unlimited capacity for forgiveness. (Since it is usually a man who needs forgiveness, this must be a racial survival trait.

I wore a thong and a bra and a wig. Those things hurt. I mean, thongs? Like, they dig in. It takes a tough man to be a woman.

Never educate a child to be a gentleman or lady alone, but to be a man, a woman.

No man has ever yet discovered the way to give friendly advice to any woman, not even to his own wife.

Any woman who wishes to smash into the world of men isn't very feminine.

I had no desire to crash a man's world.

When Harvard men say they have graduated from Radcliffe, then we've made it.

Every physical quality admired by men in women is in direct connection with the manifold functions of women for the propagation of the species.

Every man who is high up likes to think he has done it all himself; and the wife smiles, and lets it go at that. It's our only joke. Every woman knows that.

A woman is easily governed, if a man takes her in hand.

Every blue-stocking will remain a spinster as long as there are sensible men on the earth. [Fr., Toute fille lettree restera fille toute sa vie, quand il n'y aura que des hommes senses sur la terre.]

Feminism now seems to be defined as success is defined: as being as good at capitalism as men are. I feel very estranged from it.

Women aren't embarrassed when they buy men's pajamas, but a man buying a nightgown acts as though he were dealing with a dope peddler.

Sure men were born to lie, and women to believe them!

If you come from a normal family, you immediately start playing the role of a boy, a girl a man or a woman, but I'm sure you'll agree with me that those are only roles, limited roles, at that.

Love of flattery, in most men, proceeds from the mean opinion they have of themselves; in women, from the contrary.

Women have a genius for love; men can only learn the art indifferently.

There is no such thing as a dangerous woman; there are only susceptible men.

We've turned into a nation of mothers to our men. I think it's a dreadful mistake that doesn't benefit anybody.

A woman who looks like a girl and thinks like a man is the best sort, the most enjoyable to be and the most pleasurable to have and to hold.