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Quotes About Gender

We're comfortable with women in certain roles but not comfortable with women expressing anger or fully accepting their power. The most daring question a woman can ask is, 'What do I want?'
~ Libba Bray
Many books today suggest that the mass of women lead lives of noisy desperation.
~ Peter S. Prescott
There's nothing like mixing with women to bring out all the foolishness in a man of sense.
~ Thornton Wilder
Are men intimated by sexually confident women, you ask? I think men are intimated by any woman who says they are sexually confident, at no matter what age.
~ Jennifer Aniston
Men are capable of talking hours on end over only one subject; women do it and don't even require a subject.
~ Curt Goetz
Women are not altogether in the wrong when they refuse the rules of life prescribed to the World, for men only have established them and without their consent.
~ Michel de Montaigne
Women have different characteristics and needs than men do.
~ Sallie Krawcheck
If women were the equals of men, men would no longer equal themselves. Why then should women resemble what men would have ceased to be?
~ Christine Delphy
I'm not sure a world run by women would be any better. They're human beings!
~ Sheri S. Tepper
Women need to feel loved and men need to feel needed.
~ Rita Mae Brown
If it's a woman, it's caustic; if it's a man, it's authoritative.
~ Barbara Walters
Society says that men need to be bigger and stronger, and they must protect their women and so on.
~ Carol Alt
Our society and institutions are built to push men and women into different roles. We need to change that.
~ Caroline Criado-Perez
The Runaways' audience was 90 percent male. That was kind of depressing...Why don't women-our own gender-come out and support us?
~ Joan Jett
There is something special about unions of husband and wife. Unless we bring men and women together, children will not have mothers and fathers.
~ Carrie Prejean
... any men who would give up the law-making power to women in order to remedy existing evils, would surely be those most ready to enact the needful laws themselves.
~ Catharine Beecher
Why are women wearing perfumes that smell like flowers to attract men? Men don't like flowers. I have a great idea for a scent that will attract men - how about "New Car Interior"?
~ Rita Rudner
Most women in leading roles are very boyish looking. The one girl working right now who I think is a real beauty in a classic sense - the only real 12-cylinder engine - is Catherine Zeta-Jones.
~ Alec Baldwin
The main trouble with women is that they will just not put the seat back up again.
~ Martin Clunes
Women have a level of outward compassion that a lot of men don't necessarily have. Guys feel as deeply as women, but they don't share it as much.
~ Ashton Kutcher
I can imagine in a century or two that rule by women will be seen as a better bet than rule by men. What's wrong with men is that they tend to look for the violent solution. Women don't.
~ Martin Amis
Sooner or later you end up making deals with women. It's an injustice, really.
~ Patricia Nell Warren
There are some mosques with facilities for women; it's usually a back room with a back-door entrance.
~ Ayaan Hirsi Ali
We must reclaim and retake feminism from our fellow idiotic women.
~ Ayaan Hirsi Ali