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Quotes About Gender

Since women are better at producing babies, presumably Nature has given men some talent to compensate. But for the moment I can't think of it.
~ Arthur C. Clarke
A man who graduated high in his class at Yale Law School and made partnership in a top law firm would be celebrated. But a woman who accomplishes this is treated with suspicion.
~ Barbra Streisand
Feminism as a political movement has to specifically address the needs of men in their struggle to revolutionize their consciousness.
~ bell hooks
Silence in woman is like speech in man.
~ Ben Jonson
I have always thought that every woman should marry, and no man.
~ Benjamin Disraeli
Well, there's a little bit of man in every woman and a little bit of woman in every man.
~ Betty Smith
Like the lion tears the flesh off a man, so can a woman who passes herself off as a male.
~ Bob Dylan
Men are natural warriors, but a woman in battle is truly bloodthirsty
~ Cate Tiernan
I believe that if a man does a job as well as a woman, he should be paid as much.
~ Celeste Holm
Take note that, before going any farther, I will give you the exact proportion of a man. Those of a woman I will disregard, for she does not have any set proportion.
~ Cennino Cennini
I've heard it said that God made all men, but Samuel Colt made all men equal. We'd see what Mr. Colt could do for a woman.
~ Cherie Priest
Men do communicate, often very directly, but women sometimes cannot accept how simple what we have to say is. We seldom play games--we aren't that sophisticated.
~ Chris Abani
When a man can't explain a woman's actions, the first thing he thinks of is the condition of her uterus.
~ Clare Boothe Luce
A woman confronting men is a proper subject, it is inexhaustible.
~ Claude Chabrol
The mistake that straight people made was imposing the monogamous expectation on men. Men were never expected to be monogamous.
~ Dan Savage
Dead women tell no tales. Sad men write them down.
~ Daniel Handler
The average woman sees only the weak points in a strong man, and the good points in a weak one.
~ Elbert Hubbard
A woman fallen has no future; a man risen has no past.
~ Eleanor Catton
Oh, the shortcomings and inconsistency of the average human being, especially when this human being is a man trying to manage women's affairs!
~ Elizabeth Cady Stanton
I like men-inspired outfits.
~ Elizabeth Olsen
A hard headed woman, a soft hearted man, been the cause of trouble ever since the world began.
~ Elvis Presley
As women got little crumbs of power, men began to act paranoid - as if we'd disabled them utterly. Do all women have to keep silent for men to speak? Do all women have to be legless for men to walk?
~ Erica Jong
If a woman goes out with different men on different days, women only will question her character and call her all sort of names.
~ Esha Gupta
And as I started reaching deeper I realized that most of the blues of that day was done by men. Women just didn't have the nerve.
~ Etta James