Quotes About Gender

Women are on the outside when the door to the smoke-filled room is closed.

The overlap in the Venn diagram of things that men hate for women to wear and the things that I love to wear, it's almost a full overlap on the Venn diagram, which is unfortunate for me.

Why didn't you talk about whether women are funny or not? I just felt that by commenting on that in any real way, it would be tacit approval of it as a legitimate debate, which it isn't.

We have boys now, and men, in the rock and roll business and all the show business, who have this reaction on women. They scream. They yell. They do all sorts of wild things.

Well,I have a theory that men don't actually cry less than women,they just do it differently. Since we never saw our fathers cry,we are forced to invent our own unique method.

Women had no clerical role anywhere in the Western world, period.

Women have the stress of being beautiful, of age and youth. Men don't have all that. And with women, that stress causes a lot of mistakes and bad choices - a lot of not being their true self.

And just like men are responsible of the society, women also are equally responsible of the society they live in.

Not all women write the same. But I don't understand why the model is that you're supposed to write like a man, and that means you're a real writer.

Do you know why the Lord withheld the sense of humor from women? So that we may love you instead of laugh at you.

Some women are born to be married, some achieve marriage, and others have marriage thrust upon them.

There is no such thing as a strictly woman's problem. Any question affecting the welfare of society is a woman's problem.

I'm a tomboy now. I always wanted to fit in with my brother's group, so I climbed trees and played with lead soldiers. But I'm a woman's woman. I never understood women who don't have woman friends.

Women are mere "beauties" in men's culture so that culture can be kept male. When women in culture show character, they are not desirable, as opposed to the desirable, artless ingenue.

When I was a baby feminist, leading feminist thinkers were insisting that if women ran the world, there would be no sadism or war.

How is it even sustainable in 21st-century America, that women earn, on average, 77 cents for every dollar earned by men?

You don't want the men to be written in a three-dimensional way and the women, not.

We accept women being complete c-nts if they're doing it for a child.

I think that we, women, are so often defined by who our husbands are and what our husbands do. And it's time for that to end.

I do think there is a sort of natural balance in nature between men and women, and that it's being thrown off-balance by the social and economic inequities between men and women.

With the young generation, there are even more women than men making movies right now.

Women are safer in perilous situations and emergencies than men, and might be still more so if they trusted themselves more confidingly to the chivalry of manhood.

People like [Memoirs of a Woman Doctor], whether young people, young women, even critics - male critics - they were not shocked by it. Of course, some parts were cut.

You could fire a machine gun randomly through the pages of Lord of the Rings and never hit any women.