Quotes About Gender

There is plenty of room in the world for mediocre men but there is no room for mediocre women.

I don't think people should think of women's issues as auxiliary issues - they are central.

A small pay discrepancy between men's and women's salaries for the same job may seem inconsequential. But over the years, salary discrimination adds up to a significantly smaller pension.

If being a woman is a factor politically, it's usually not because of a conscious bias, but because women are a novelty.

men are not realists - only women are.

His wife's a brand of Christian that forbids a gathering that involves young women dancing in the streets but not races where men die

For the courage of self-sacrifice, woman is any time superior to man, as I believe man is to woman for the courage of the brute.

There is no occasion for women to consider themselves subordinate or inferior to man

The duty of motherhood, which the vast majority of woman will always undertake, requires the qualities which men need not possess.

A women knows how to keep quiet when she is in the right, whereas a man, when he is in the right, will keep on talking.

You know, this is a business where only 15% make a living wage and only 9% of those are women. But I figured somebody has to be that 15%, somebody's got to be one of those women.

Life's tricky for women because they have to make more choices than men. And yes, choice is good, but boy, you better be an expert choice-maker.

If you're a woman writer, sometime, somewhere, you will be asked: Do you think of yourself as a writer first, or as a woman first? Look out. Whoever asks this hates and fears both writing and women.

But maybe boredom is erotic, when women do it, for men.

I just think women are funnier than men.

Comedy is quite a difficult place for queers and for women.

Grandmother belongs to the generation of women who were satisfied to have men retain their vices, if they removed their hats.

We know of no culture that has said, articulately, that there is no difference between men and women except in the way they contribute to the creation of the next generation.

Women must have economic and social equality with men.

The stronger women get, the more men love football.

I feel that as women we've allowed ourselves to be deluded by certain ideas that hold us back, such as the over-glorification of masculine consciousness.

Some of the most patriarchal thinkers I know are women. Some of the most feminist thinkers are men.

Wifehood and motherhood... are a bigger handicap than the average male genius would... essay to carry to success.

Black men don't like to be called 'boys,' but women accept being called 'girls.'