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Quotes About Gender

And finally, in our time a beard is the one thing that a woman cannot do better than a man, or if she can her success is assured only in a circus.
~ John Steinbeck
Women are quite unlike men. Women have higher voices, longer hair, smaller waistlines, daintier feet and prettier hands. They also invariably have the upper hand.
~ Stephen Potter
The trouble with men is that they have limited minds. That's the trouble with women, too.
~ Joanna Russ
Unless we include a job as part of every citizen's right to autonomy and personal fulfillment, women will continue to be vulnerable to someone else's idea of what need is.
~ Gloria Steinem
Women are cursed, and men are the proof.
~ Roseanne Barr
I think that feminists have definitely underestimated the role that women have had historically. I think I would be insecure if I were to be a man; there's so much pressure on you.
~ Vivienne Westwood
I do not impersonate females! How many women do you know who wear seven inch heels, four foot wigs, and skintight dresses?
~ RuPaul
The women are always vixens or monsters. They can't just be normal people in the book.
~ Margaret Drabble
Men will often admit other women are oppressed but not you.
~ Sheila Rowbotham
I always say that bad women are fewer than men, but when you get one, they're fascinating because they're so rotten.
~ Ann Rule
Once you know what women are like, men get kind of boring. I'm not trying to put them down, I mean I like them sometimes as people, but sexually they're dull.
~ Rita Mae Brown
Women should remain at home, sit still, and bear children.
~ Martin Luther
With men, as with women, the main struggle is between vanity and comfort; but with men, comfort often wins.
~ Mignon McLaughlin
Women are the essential part of the theater but the writers are not writing about women. I think they're too perplexed about the whole female situation probably.
~ Bette Davis
Woman reduces us all to the common denominator.
~ George Bernard Shaw
One difference between ants and humans is that while ants send their old women off to war, humans send their young men.
~ E. O. Wilson
I feel nowadays that both women and men are embracing their individuality rather than being defined by gender roles.
~ Miranda Kerr
I don't hate women, but I think they should be kept in cages.
~ Norman Mailer
I often want to cry. That is the only advantage women have over men — at least they can cry.
~ Jean Rhys
One percent of ballplayers are leaders of men. The other 99 percent are followers of women.
~ John McGraw
If men can quilt and take over the kitchen, then women can pick up a wrench and fix a leaky pipe.
~ Hanna Rosin
Women are more difficult to handle than men. It's their minds.
~ Peter Sellers
I have long believed that women should play a much bigger part in our affairs.
~ Jo Grimond
Before I leave this Earth, I would like to know they have given women the same benefits and promotions as men.
~ Martha Griffiths