Quotes About Gender

Women have been a ghastly nuisance in my life.

Of the two lots, the woman's lot of perpetual motherhood, and the man's of perpetual babyhood, I prefer the man's.

It's legal for men to be floorwalkers and illegal for women to be streetwalkers.

Where women love each other, men learn to smother their mutual dislike.

In the ages since Adam's marriage, it has been good for some men to be alone, and for some women also.

No, no; women, old or young, should never have to think about money.

Women are better than they are reputed to be: they don't mock the tears men shed unless they themselves are responsible for them.

Every time a woman makes herself laugh at her husband's often-told jokes she betrays him. The man who looks at his woman and says 'What would I do without you?' is already destroyed.

I should favour anything that would increase the present enormous authority of women and their creative action in their own homes. The average woman...is a despot; the average man is a serf.

The average woman is at the head of something with which she can do as she likes; the average man has to obey orders and do nothing else.

In sixth grade, we all had to write this opinion paper. Most wrote about things like why we should be able to chew gum in class - I wrote about why women should receive equal pay.

They say men and women can't be friends, but that's not true.

First, women are more likely to live in poverty during their retirement years than are men.

It's not that women are less corruptible than men are, it's that women have had less chance to become corrupt.

Sexism is not inevitable. It's only about controlling reproduction and therefore controlling women.

Women must have seats at the table because peace is too crucial to be left only to the politicians or only to the male half of our world.

I just think that culturally, women - we're all human beings - but at least we don't have our masculinity to prove.

Only when women rebel against patriarchal standards does female muscle become more accepted.

Why are women raped far away (say, Bosnia) called victims, while those raped nearby (say, a local campus) are playing victim politics?

Power in this country is often like hemophilia; it passes through women and then men get it.

women used to be elected only when their husbands died and they became widows. The men found this was too hard on them. That's why they've become feminists.

Where men come to and women come together most intimately in sexuality in the home has become suffused with violence.

Society certainly encourages women to be victims in every way. I mean if we want approval, we have to sing the blues, even as singers we sing the blues.

They would say well there's always been wars, men have always beaten women. But it isn't true in all cultures. It doesn't have to be true. And the first step is imaging.