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Quotes About Gender

When you are a strong woman, you will attract trouble. When a man feels threatened, there is always trouble.
~ Barbara Taylor Bradford
There's a long, long history of women suffering abuse, injustice, and not having the same opportunities as men, and I think that's been very detrimental to the human race as a whole.
~ Joseph Gordon-Levitt
The old boy network is still very strong and very true. Just look at the stock exchange and how many men and women are there. It is still very much run by men.
~ Billie Jean King
Equality? They ought to play the women's final on opening day. Everybody knows who's going to be in it.
~ Jimmy Connors
We need a kind of feminism that aims not just to assimilate into the institutions that men have created over the centuries, but to infiltrate and subvert them.
~ Barbara Ehrenreich
...gender relationships, which are tough for people to deal with, are key to whether a society orients to domination or partnership in all its relations.
~ Riane Eisler
Women can spin very well; but they cannot make a good book of cookery.
~ Samuel Johnson
Men are more conventional than women and much slower to change their ideas.
~ Kathleen Norris
A significant minority of senior women I've interviewed say, 'Love the companionship, glad to live with him, but I spent my first marriage picking up after a man and I'm not going to do that anymore.
~ Stephanie Coontz
In artillery exercises, women always win because they're more accurate.
~ Michelle Bachelet
No man is inherently respectable, but all women are by nature.
~ Lin Yutang
Women who can, do. Those who can't become feminists.
~ Bobby Riggs
A good man doesn't just happen. They have to be created by us women. A guy is a lump like this doughnut.
~ Roseanne Barr
Ten-year-old boys move differently than middle-aged women, who move differently than athletic guys, who move differently than government bureaucrats.
~ Brad Bird
Women are much more like each other than men: they have, in truth, but two passions, vanity and love; these are their universal characteristics.
~ Lord Chesterfield
Boyhood proves that there's still good roles for women over 40, as long as you get hired when you're under 40.
~ Tina Fey
Men rise through the ranks because of potential, but women have to prove themselves - while trying to have children and having no family leave.
~ Reese Witherspoon
Women do feel like they're in a box. Society, Hollywood, some men... they want to wrap women up in a neat little package.
~ Sherilyn Fenn
When men in secular life, who might be religious or not, see women being treated as secondary in the eyes of God, they assume that it's OK for them to do it.
~ Jimmy Carter
In the history of humanity, women have never been as oppressed as they are right now. Men can make babies with us and then walk away.
~ Laura Schlessinger
At the end of the day, women are expected to hold up the world, not annihilate it.
~ Kim Gordon
But the idea that women can't take care of themselves still permeates our culture.
~ Katherine Dunn
The indifference of men, far more than their tyranny, is the torment of women.
~ Jules Michelet
The word spinster tells you everything that you need to know about our attitude of women who choose not to marry, yes.
~ Caitlin Moran