Quotes About Gender

God is seen as a male whose first creation was another man, Adam, whom we are told was made in his image and likeness.

Women in the postfeminist era, while supposedly strong and commanding and equal to men in every sense, looked weaker and smaller than ever before.

The average woman loses a half million dollars over a lifetime, but women with higher degrees lose $2 million over a lifetime.

I can never get used to the fact, though I know it, that women are born cynics. Men have to learn cynicism. Infant girls could teach it to them.

Women have choices, and men have responsibilities.

What women have done is developed a survival mechanism, and it's a fascinating one and it's been effective and justified, in my opinion. That is the ability to manipulate men sexually.

In the past quarter century, we exposed biases against other races and called it racism, and we exposed biases against women and called it sexism. Biases against men we call humor.

Women know the damnation of charity because the habit of civilization has always been to throw them cheap alms rather than give them good wages.

Review your description of the world, what it is to be a woman, and see how inadequate it is.

I think men should go see Beaches too. I think they'll understand women better.

We're born man, woman and sexual beings.

They say the Lord's Day is a day of rest, but those who preach this generally are not women.

Men are not amusing during the shooting season; but, after all, my dear, men were not especially designed to amuse women.

Men cannot count, they do not know that two and two make four if women do not tell them so.

Women hate a debt as men a gift.

We know that we can do what men can do, but we still don't know that men can do what women can do. That's absolutely crucial. We can't go on doing two jobs.

If we create a generation of men who aren't getting an education, that's bad for women.

Men are said to desire women, Severian. Why do they despise the women they obtain?

Overturning patriarchy does not mean replacing men's dominance with women's dominance. That would merely maintain the patriarchal pattern of dominance. We need to transform the pattern itself.

Why can men be boys all of their lives, but we women must grow old while we are yet young?

Many women tend toward the interdependent end of things, we tend to see ourselves in relationship to others to a far greater degree than men.

Perhaps well-to-do women and unemployed ghetto teenagers have something in common. Neither group has been allowed to develop the self-confidence that comes from knowing you can support yourselves.

Now we know that women can do what men can do..., but we don't know that men can do what women can do.

What a man must do is realize that his continued belief in the inferiority of women is going to produce a type of karma that is going to hold him back, and already has.