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Quotes About Gender

Schools are generally feminine places, institutions where conformity is valued, taught largely by conformist women.
~ Judith M Bardwick
The connection between women's human rights, gender equality, socioeconomic development and peace is increasingly apparent.
~ Mahnaz Afkhami
Id love to see more women working as directors and producers.
~ Ida Lupino
Shoes for men are about elegance or wealth, they are not playing with the inner character. That is why women are happy to wear painful shoes.
~ Christian Louboutin
The world still wants to ask that a woman primarily be pretty and if she is not, the mob pouts and asks querulously, 'What else are women for?
~ W. E. B. Du Bois
A society in which conjugal infidelity is tolerated must always be in the long run a society adverse to women.
~ C. S. Lewis
Women are programmed to love completely, and men are programmed to spread it around. We are fools to think it's any different.
~ Beryl Bainbridge
I had heard some women make comments about my chest, so why not show it off? Nobody wants to see a fat guy in tights. That wouldn't be fair to the fans.
~ Paul Stanley
Evening the playing field for women workers is a matter of fairness and with women now providing a significant share of their family's income, it is a family issue.
~ Rosa DeLauro
Specifically for black women, our images and our bodies in the media and in history have been so hypersexualized.
~ Tatyana Fazlalizadeh
Filmmaking is challenging for men and women. In both cases, it is incredibly difficult. And gender is neither a guarantee of greater sensitivity, capacity for empathy or aperture.
~ Claudia Llosa
Women rule the world. It's not really worth fighting because they know what they're doing. Ask Napoleon. Ask Adam. Ask Richard Burton or Richie Sambora. Many a man has crumbled.
~ Jon Bon Jovi
Woman is more impressionable than man. Therefore in the Golden Age they were better than men. Now they are worse.
~ Leo Tolstoy
All women are basically in competition with each other for a handful of eligible men.
~ Mignon McLaughlin
You know, the genders are different in how they approach things, and so I really think that women put a lot more guilt on themselves than need be.
~ Jane Curtin
I've said this before, that, when you're in school and you're the class clown, men are really good at making fun at other people and women are really good at making fun of themselves.
~ Amy Poehler
Until women are as ambitious as men, they're not gong to achieve as much as men.
~ Sheryl Sandberg
The few bright meteors in man's intellectual horizon could well be matched by women, were she allowed to occupy the same elevated position.
~ Ernestine Rose
We dance with women in groups, but it is very rare that you have a partner that is a woman. The dance world is very macho - woman, boy, always couples, and it's very standardized.
~ Blanca Li
More men than women like 'Strangers With Candy'. Pretty girls don't like the show. They don't like to see an ugly lady.
~ Amy Sedaris
Why would we go to war on women? They don't have any oil.
~ Stephen Colbert
While sexism hurts women most intimately, it also damages men severely.
~ Kathleen Hanna
An interim government was set up in Afghanistan. It included two women, one of whom was Minister of Women's Affairs. Man, who'd she have to show here ankles to to get that job?
~ Tina Fey
Women will be saved by going back to that role that God has chosen for them. Ladies, if the hair on the back of your neck stands up it is because you are fighting your role in the scripture.
~ Mark Driscoll