Quotes About Gender

As the feminist saying goes, 'Women deliver.' In other words, when women control resources, the social gain is greater than when men control resources.

Moviemaking is so male-dominated now that they think they're being pro-feminine when they have women punching each other out.

Many men start being friendly with women because they are trying to seduce them. I'm not trying to seduce them. I just like hanging out with them.

The women's movement is filled with tyrants, just as men's political movements are equally filled.

Men's eyes are in their heads; women's, in their hearts.

Women share this planet 50/50 and they are underrepresented, their potential astonishingly untapped.

Most women's pictures are as boring and as formulaic as men's pictures. In place of a car chase or a battle scene, what you get is an extreme closeup of a woman breaking down.

I'm always rather nervous about how you talk about women who are active in politics, whether they want to be talked about as women or as politicians.

My hope is that in the future, women stop referring to themselves as 'the only woman' in their physics lab or 'only one of two' in their computer science jobs.

Men had no purpose on earth whereas women were gods walking unrecognized among them.

Men do not know what they do not know, and women should not tell them.

I think at this stage in my life I have learned that there are any number of things that men will never know, and can never hope to know, about women.

Paradoxically, the most constructive thing women can do is to write, for in the act of writing we deny our muteness and begin to eliminate some of the difficulties that have been put upon us.

You've got to remember that men are men and women are women. And although a lot of similarities, there are some real differences.

The myth of black women profiting at the expense of black men is the oldest rap around.

I think women are much stronger than men in society. We take more risks than they do in general.

It is not male hatred of women but male fear of women that is the great universal.

In a perverse way, it's very patriarchal to think that women can't be malicious or violent.

The mystical impulse in men is somehow a desire to possess the universe. In women, it's a desire to be possessed.

The studio system is kind of an old boys system and it's difficult for them to trust women to be capable

The world's male chivalry has perished out, but women are knights-errant to the last; and, if Cervantes had been greater still, he had made his Don a Donna.

Ahh, women! I never met one yet that was half as reliable as a horse!

Prettiness is not a rent you pay for occupying a space marked 'female'

It's always good when women win things in fiction because it tends to be more male-dominated, unlike poetry, which is more equal