Quotes About Gender

If American men are obsessed with money, American women are obsessed with weight. The men talk of gain, the women talk of loss, and I do not know which talk is the more boring.

The only reason that they say, 'Women and children first' is to test the strength of the lifeboats.

If you want a weak man, you might as well marry a woman.

Most of us believe that women can do what men do. The challenge is to convince employers, legislators, mothers, that men can do what women do.

Sophie Germain proved to the world that even a woman can accomplish something in the most rigorous and abstract of sciences and for that reason would well have deserved an honorary degree.

Women blame men for their own singlehood.

The reason that women are so much more sociable than men is because they act more from the heart than the intellect.

My aunt once said that the world would never find peace until men fell at their women's feet and asked for forgiveness.

Public 'career feminists' have been more concerned with getting more women into 'boardrooms,' when the problem is that there are altogether too many boardrooms, and none of them are on fire.

People always say, 'A good man is hard to find.' You've never heard that about women, have you?

When I was playing, they said soccer was a man's world and women should remain on the sidelines, all I can say is I'm glad I never had to go up against Mia Hamm

Who shall measure the hat and violence of the poet's heart when caught and tangled in a woman's body?

On the Planet of Baritone women, they talk low.

I am not interested in women just because they're women. I am interested, however, in seeing that they are no longer classed with children and minors.

I hope one day people don't look at women like they're out of their minds when they want to pick up an instrument and play. And I think we're getting a lot closer to that.

Perhaps we could push beyond these legalistic gender roles if we spent less time worrying about "acting like men" and "acting like women," and more time acting like Jesus.

Three of my novels and a good number of my short stories are told from the point of view of men. I was brought up in a house of women.

Men aren't the way they are because they want to drive women crazy; they've been trained to be that way for thousands of years. And that training makes it very difficult for men to be intimate.

If a man does something silly, people say, 'Isn't he silly?' If a woman does something silly, people say, 'Aren't women silly?

men never would share power with women willingly. If we wanted it, we would have to take it.

Men are often a lot less vindictive than women are, because we are rejected constantly every day.

It's a little bit late in the day for men to object that women are getting outside their proper sphere.

Freedom from discrimination for women, ensuring that female children can learn to read, these are human needs for half the human race, not western values.

You just have to be strong if you're a black woman.