Quotes About Gender

It is difficult to get men to pick up a female author. Women will read men, but men won't read women.

One can't help but marvel at the variety of ways that women had devised to make us look like flaming idiots.

As a culture women are brought up to be fundamentally insecure.

I know a lot about women and their suffering, but I still know almost nothing about men.

Anyone who says that women do not have influence in men's decisions makes a vast and stupid mistake.

Women's bodies are used to sell anything and everything because it works, it grabs people's attention, and advertisers aren't going to stop using something that works.

In documentary, which is the only thing I'm really very familiar with, women are very easily relegated into a producer role.

Because I also teach college, I am around a lot of young women who are just starting out, and I often see them coming up against certain expectations that may be more gender-specific.

Men are just as willing as women to marry up, and life is now giving them the opportunity to do so. So, women, own up to your accomplishments, buy him a drink, and tell him what you really do.

While there may have once been a stigma to making money, high-earning women actually have an advantage in the dating-and-marriage market.

Ten minutes? That's the women. It's not for the men; not for the real game, mate.

My favorite question that is asked only of women is, 'What do you do with yourself all day?' The only possible answer is, 'Make nuclear bombs in my bathroom. Just little ones, though.

Women don't have a sense of humor. They don't need one. The Almighty made them as a permanent joke on men. From which one may logically deduce tha the Almighty is a female.

Men feared witches and burned women.

I was thinking what a curious thing love is; only a sentiment, and yet it has power to make fools of men and slaves of women.

…men never forgive like women.

I feel that women 'and men,' but I mean the 'individual,' can be totally feminine and still be totally powerful.

Men don't cry!' 'Women can't handle money!' What limiting ideas to live with.

I am a black woman poet and I sound like one.

Every single one of us who has been a Woman in Film for more than five minutes is sick of the phrase Women in Film.

The lack of women directors is a sad fact of life. Kathryn Bigelows thrilling Best Director win may help turn things around.

Directing is the last frontier for women in the movie business. We are studio heads, we are producers and we are writers, but we are not directors in any numbers.

When men do wrong, it is out of hardness; when women do wrong, it is out of weakness.

The greater part of what women write about women is mere sycophancy to man.