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Quotes About Gender

Aw, it's just like a woman. When the shootin's all over and everything's safe, they pass out.
~ Griffin Jay
Women want you to deceive them: they force you to, and if you resist, they blame you.
~ Gustave Flaubert
There are limits put on women, but why should there be?
~ Gwen Stefani
Man makes love by braggadocio, and woman makes love by listening.
~ H. L. Mencken
Guys will definitely settle for women who get the joke. But a woman who can make you laugh? It's not high on a guy's must list. Perhaps it should be.
~ Hank Azaria
If you look at total numbers in the working and middle class, men still on average make more than women.
~ Hanna Rosin
In my mother's day, she didn't go to college. Not a lot of women did. Now for every two men who get a college degree, three women will do the same.
~ Hanna Rosin
I often thought men stank of rage; it is why I preferred women, and homosexuals.
~ Harold Brodkey
One of the greatest reforms that could be, in these reforming days ... would be to have women architects. The mischief with the houses built to rent is that they are all male contrivances.
~ Harriet Beecher Stowe
In a country where women regard themselves as equal, they are not prepared to see men running the show themselves.
~ Harriet Harman
Believing that all women should want to be mothers makes about as much sense as believing that all men should want to be engineers.
~ Harriet Lerner
There are guys who want to be together, there are woman who want to be together, and there and men and women who want to be together.
~ Harry Wayne Casey
Scientists know that women gravitate to men who have a different immune system from theirs.
~ Helen Fisher
Women are naturally prone to compete over their mates.
~ Helen Fisher
As societies continue to loosen their standards regarding what is appropriate female and male behavior, I think we are going to realize we have not only underestimated women, but also men.
~ Helen Fisher
But I can't bear it when somebody who some man made a pass at - to call that violence seems to me absurd and insulting to women who've really met violence, who've been raped or bashed.
~ Helen Garner
I do not know the needs of a god or of another world... I do know that women make shirts for seventy cents a dozen in this one.
~ Helen H. Gardener
Women can explore so much in dressing. But if I was a guy I would wear vintage suits constantly. With crazy ties!
~ Helena Christensen
All observations point to the fact that the intellectual woman is masculinized; in her, warm, intuitive knowledge has yielded to cold unproductive thinking.
~ Helene Deutsch
A man of fine perceptions is more truly feminine than a merely sentimental woman.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Basically, men are afraid of women and can't handle the fact that they came out of the same thing they spend the rest of their lives trying to get back into.
~ Henry Rollins
My men have become women, but the women men.
~ Herodotus
It was unfortunate for other women who might come after [Margaret Thatcher] that the first woman to become prime minister was a male impersonator.
~ Hilary Mantel
it is impossible to attack the problem of poverty in the industrialized or the developing world effectively unless the extent to which poverty is a women's problem is recognized.
~ Hilda Scott