Quotes About Gender

Nobody is surprised that women writers accurately represent male characters over and over again, no doubt because everybody knows that women understand men much better than vice-versa.

It will all go on as long as women are stupid enough to go on bringing men into the world. . .

To create a language all of a piece which would be a women's language, that I find quite insane. There does not exist a mathematics which is only a women's mathematics, or a feminine science.

I think that literature quite often emerges from areas where there has been a lack of articulation, like women's writing.

I think violence against women in America has become ordinary - it's been made absolutely acceptable.

There's this absurd innate need in most men to feel that they're more powerful than women are, which is ridiculous.

There are men who do exist who have no desire for women. That doesn't necessarily mean they have an interest in men, but scholars often interpret it to mean those men who don't have sexual knowledge.

Though all humans need both intimacy and independence, women tend to focus on the first and men on the second. It is as if their lifeblood ran in different directions.

Apparently every man was told to bring three women with them. Sounds like a ho-down.

Women have been taught that they are not powerful; they've been given an opposite description, that they are weak. The word "effeminate" implies weakness.

A lot of men hate women subconsciously or just are very confused about them or are afraid of them or are afraid of their power, or want to suppress them.

it is not the inferiority of women that has caused their historical insignificance; it is rather their historical insignificance that has doomed them to inferiority.

We don't have enough young, female antiheroes. We don't accept women as antiheroes the way we do the men.

You get elected, often, if you're a woman, on the strength of the women's vote; then you get into office, and you have to adapt to an overwhelmingly male environment.

Man forgives woman anything save the wit to outwit him.

The United States has more women and girls in prison than any other industrialized nation on earth.

Men have reacted very negatively to the power that is inherent in women.

Men, through the ideas they have, project a field of attention that limits women.

Because they dream so strongly in themselves, their superiority and women's inferiority, they project an image that a woman finds very, very difficult to fight against.

Men move through a much different process before commitment than women do.

A woman's place, her entire experience in life, has been and in many places still is dependent upon the man she marries.

I don't really think there's a need to have a men's line. I think a lot of the men's lines just take the products for women and put them in different containers. It's all psychological.

Relationship humour gets the most laughs. If I'm able to get the women laughing, men will have to laugh along because they would be scared to death.

Women have been sexual slaves for most of recorded history.