logo

Quotes About Gender

Sadly, man recognises that the ideal, submissive woman he has created for himself is somehow not quite what he wanted.
~ Eva Figes
The difference between two men is usually a woman.
~ Evan Esar
Women are opening businesses at twice the rate of men ... Forty percent of businesses will be owned by women. Women are saying, I don't belong in this company. I'm sick of fighting this battle.
~ Faith Popcorn
I certainly had no intention of playing a man.
~ Fiona Shaw
He who does most to cure woman of her weakness, her frivolity, and her servility will likewise at the same stroke do most to cure man of his brutality, his selfishness and his sensuality.
~ Frances Power Cobbe
As men do walk a mile, women should talk an hour, After supper. 'Tis their exercise.
~ Francis Beaumont
Woman throughout the ages has been mistress to the law, as man has been its master.
~ Freda Adler
To be man's tender mate was woman born, and in obeying nature she best serves the purposes of heaven.
~ Friedrich Schiller
Think what cowards men would be if they had to bear children. Women are altogether a superior species.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Rich men without convictions are more dangerous in modern society than poor women without chastity.
~ George Bernard Shaw
When the military man approaches, the world locks up its spoons and packs off its womankind.
~ George Bernard Shaw
There are battered husbands. Apparently this happens when the woman is real big, the man is very small, and they each drink a quart of whiskey a day.
~ George Carlin
Until every good man is brave, we must expect to find many good women timid--too timid even to believe in the correctness of their own best promptings, when these would place them in a minority.
~ George Eliot
I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off.
~ George R. R. Martin
Men have scars, women mysteries.
~ George R. R. Martin
I find that those men who are personally most polite to women, who call them angels and all that, cherish in secret the greatest contempt for them.
~ Germaine Greer
While women certainly have made great strides toward pay parity in the past 30 years, there is still a gap in earnings between men and women in equivalent professions.
~ Ginny Brown-Waite
As is the case with many Middle Eastern nations, women are nowhere near equal to men when it comes to basic freedoms and rights that we take for granted every day.
~ Ginny Brown-Waite
There are many more women who identify as unique people as well as mothers, or instead of as mothers, than there used to be and, hopefully, there are more men who identify as fathers.
~ Gloria Steinem
The production of children, the nurture of those born, and the daily life of men, of these matters woman is visibly the cause.
~ Guru Nanak
Women hate revolutions and revolutionists. They like men who are docile, and well-regarded at the bank, and never late at meals.
~ H. L. Mencken
The worst of marriage is that it makes a woman believe that all men are just as easy to fool.
~ H. L. Mencken
As we get used to women in power, we are likely to discover that they behave much like powerful men - vain, entitled, always looking for more.
~ Hanna Rosin
No man does right by a woman at a party.
~ Harry Golden