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Quotes About Gender

What would we say if men changed the length of their trousers every year?
~ Lady Nancy Astor
When we reach the point where the women athletes are getting their pick of dates just as easily as the men athletes, then we've really and truly arrived. Parity at last!
~ Billie Jean King
Men spend their whole lives showing that they're strong and silent. They fight for independence the way women struggle to connect.
~ George Weinberg
Beguiling voices in the world cry out for 'alternative lifestyles' for women. They maintain that some women are better suited for careers than for marriage and motherhood.
~ Ezra Taft Benson
I think women have an innate ability to be intuitive with people that they truly love, but they have to trust that inner voice, and I think it is there. I think we are more intuitive than men.
~ Andie MacDowell
For a long time, society put obstacles in the way of women who wanted to enter the sciences.
~ Sally Ride
There's many women now who think, 'Surely we don't need feminism anymore, we're all liberated and society's accepting us as we are'. Which is just hogwash. It's not true at all.
~ Yoko Ono
Historically men have suppressed women quite effectively. They have suppressed women since the beginning of our history.
~ Frederick Lenz
Men and women are not equal.
~ Mel Gibson
It's a proven fact that when you raise the status of girls and women in a country, that country does much better economically.
~ Gillian Anderson
Languages proclaim that woman is half of man, and by parity of reasoning, man is half of woman.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Women have been systematically pushed out of spirituality by men.
~ Frederick Lenz
We are worse off - all of us, including men and boys - if our society is not developing and empowering 100% of the resources of humanity, including women and girls.
~ Sally Kohn
The higher you go, the fewer women there are.
~ Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Men read science fiction to build the future. Women don't need to read it. They are the future.
~ Ray Bradbury
Women want a man who is sensitive, but god forbid you can't get it up after being frightened by a small woodland animal.
~ Dov Davidoff
Today's young women don't really see inequities until they go out into the real world.
~ Eleanor Clift
In brief, we do more research on men in prison, men in the military, and men in general than we do on women for the same reason we do more research on rats than we do on humans.
~ Warren Farrell
We need to reevaluate that women who ask for a pay raise or ask for a promotion - it's actually an okay thing.
~ Jessica Chastain
Without a doubt there are women who would vote intelligently. There are also men who knit socks beautifully.
~ H. L. Mencken
Let woman be a plaything, pure and fine, like a precious stone, illumined with the virtues of a world not yet come.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Why do men feel threatened by women?
~ Margaret Atwood
It's that deep-seeded societal gender norm that women, for some reason, aren't elite athletes, when we are. We really are. I think we fight against that a bit.
~ Becky Sauerbrunn
The fact that women are the primary care-givers is a problem for women and men
~ Caroline Criado-Perez