Quotes About Gender

Women are complex and subtle. Men are simple and direct.

Why is it taken for granted that women should earn less than men? No! They have the same rights.

Women do not transgress the bounds of decorum so often as men; but when they do, they go greater lengths.

Men mourn for what they have lost; women for what they ain't got.

The greatest barrier to women's advance in the public world of action has been their acquiescence in the idea that they don't belong out there.

There is a cliche that men want their women to be ladies in public and hookers behind closed doors. I want my woman to be the sharper image robot so that she can be turned off.

A pessimist says all women are loose. An optimist does not, but he has hopes.

Most women seem to be required to pit themselves against men in dramatic situations, and the men got to pit themselves against ideas or God.

Women spend their lives trying to look good for men. So a woman who feels she's sending the right visual signals is pleased with herself.

Many women feel it is natural to consult with their partners at every turn, while many men automatically make more decisions without consulting their partners.

In 1973, women got 59 cents on the dollar; now we are getting 74 cents on the dollar. In the area of finance and business, we are at 68 cents on the dollar.

Men worry about childcare with their wallets, women feel it in their wombs.

Women go to beauty parlors for the unmussed look men hate.

I remember becoming aware of women's issues and inequality. It became glaringly clear to me when I was living in America that women are regarded as less intelligent than men.

When I hear that there are 5,000,000 working women in this country, I always take occasion to say that there are 18,000,000 but only 5,000,000 receive their wages.

Women aren't more easily swayed by fascism than men, but I believe that their situation makes them in effect more slavish than men.

If we men married the women we deserved, we should have a very bad time of it.

... women are more quiet. They don't feel called to mount a barrel and harangue by the hour every time they imagine they have produced an idea.

I still had to correct Allen Ginsberg at times when he called women girls. I'd say. Allen please, it's not politically correct.

If you've ever hauled a 28-pound two-year-old around New York, you'll find that men fold at the knees a lot quicker than women.

Women in Thai society have been placed in the space of the home. It is possible that women have assuredly taken up that place without thinking too critically about it.

Unlike furious thin-lipped feminists, I tend not to draw distinctions between men and women, apart from in bed where you really do need to spot the difference.

Women eat while they are talking; men talk while they are eating.

If women are all of a sudden complaining all the time about getting sent to Pakistan, then if I were an editor, I probably wouldn't send a woman.