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Quotes About Gender

Protestant women may take the pill. Roman Catholic women must keep taking The Tablet.
~ Irene Thomas
The masculine/feminine look fascinates me. It is not only an issue of empowering women, but I think the shapes look great.
~ Irina Lazareanu
Of course men play roles, but women play roles too, blanker ones. They have, in the play of life, fewer good lines.
~ Iris Murdoch
?Courage is a virtue appreciated in a male but considered a defect in our gender. Bold women are a threat to a world that is badly out of balance, in favor of men.
~ Isabel Allende
The great truth is that women actually like men, and men can never believe it.
~ Isabel Paterson
Women should not have to adopt masculine traits in order to succeed. You should be able to stay as a woman, and in tune with your femininity, and still be equal.
~ Isla Fisher
The truth of the matter is we don't understand our women; we blame on them and it's all our fault.
~ Jack Kerouac
Girls and women are most victimised in societies where boys and men are disempowered.
~ Jacqueline Novogratz
I argued that the chastity of women was of much more consequence than that of men, as the property and rights of families depend upon it.
~ James Boswell
The number of women in power positions is a fraction of the number of men in such positions.
~ James Franco
Men in your position have women offering themselves in the hopes that they will get somewhere professionally, or socially.
~ James Franco
We should be writing more great roles for women, period. Another problem is that movies are generally made for 14-year-old boys, and 14-year-old boys want to watch 25-year-old action heroes.
~ James Mangold
A woman's place is in the wrong.
~ James Thurber
No male can beat a female in the long run because they have it over us in sheer, damn longevity.
~ James Thurber
It must be hard to be a female in a David Mackenzie movie. I feel like women in his films are portrayed a certain way - like broken people.
~ Jamie Bell
Men were put into the world to teach women the law of compromise.
~ Jane Austen
So much is made of good, strong roles for women. Actually, it's really interesting playing vul­nerable people as well.
~ Jane Fonda
Men fear that becoming 'we' will erase his 'I.' For women, our 'we' is our saving grace Women's relationships are like a renewable source of power.
~ Jane Fonda
If you educate women, family size tends to go down.
~ Jane Goodall
Women in business, women in employment anywhere face a very different set of challenges than their male counterparts.
~ Jane Park
There weren't too many books by women that were taught in school, so I read those on my own, and the books I read were as accessible as the ones we were reading in school.
~ Jane Smiley
It's the twenty-first century." I told Tank. "Women drive." "Only in my bed," Tank said. "Never in my car.
~ Janet Evanovich
Women have invented nothing in all that, except the men who were born as male babies and grew up to be men big enough to be killed fighting.
~ Janet Flanner
Men sometimes seem more ready to accept women as brain surgeons than as athletes.
~ Janice Kaplan