Quotes About Gender

The more potent, unasked question is how society at large reacts to eager, voluntary violence by females, and to the growing evidence that women can be just as aggressive as men.

the Bible is used as a means of reinforcing their [women's] subordination to men through divine sanction.

Women always put men first. That's how everything got so screwed up.

How foolish it would be if women did not obey men. The world would be all confusion!

A lot of women - not all of them, a lot of them - feel insecure about men being men.

In discussions around the hiring and firing of Black faculty at universities, the charge is frequently heard that Black women are more easily hired than are Black men.

I do think that memoirs by women are reviewed differently and considered somewhat outside of the canon.

There is a certain element of complementarity between men and women that is biological by nature.

Women's voices aren't heard often enough. Congress should reflect the population, but with only 20 percent women in the Senate and 18 percent in the House, it just doesn't.

when men don't like another man everyone assumes he's no good and that the men know what they are talking about, yet when women dislike another woman people just think they're being catty.

I want every version of a woman and a man to be possible. I want women and men to be able to be full-time parents or full-time working people or any combination of the two.

Women cry. Men laugh. Whiners moan. Men laugh. Wimps complain. Men laugh.

There were statistically more women than men on the planet. Why should every major religion have been founded by men and propagated by men?

Listening to women ain't the fashion in this part of the country.

We know less about the sexual life of little girls than of boys. But we need not feel ashamed of this distinction; after all, the sexual life of adult women is a 'dark continent' for psychology.

It cannot be doubted that in most countries today women, in comparison to men, still remain underprivileged.

Among human beings, the subjection of women is much more complete at a certain level of civilization than it is among savages. And the subjection is always reinforced by morality.

We have to raise our young boys to respect women and our young girls to demand respect and to get their values from something other than their physicality.

It is men's worst fear, personally and professionally, that women will pin the sin on them.

The history of women is the history of the worst form of tyranny the world has ever known. The tyranny of the weak over the strong. It is the only tyranny that lasts.

Men must teach each other that real men do not violate or oppress women - and that a woman's place is not just in the home or the field, but in schools and offices and boardrooms.

Refecting on the high divorce rate in America as contrasted with England "American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English women only hope to find in their butlers

Aristotle could have avoided the mistake of thinking that women have fewer teeth than men, by the simple device of asking Mrs. Aristotle to keep her mouth open while he counted.

The first thing the male establishment wants to control is uterus and birth. You might call it womb envy. But even worse is the fact we are still using the male model of sexual response for women.