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Quotes About Gender

The man has a theory. The woman has hipbones. Here comes Death.
~ Anne Carson
White women and black men have it both ways. They can act as oppressor or ... and oppression of others.
~ bell hooks
Among the Tibetans, one wife has many husbands, because men are too poor to support a whole wife.
~ Bertrand Russell
I know if I was a woman I wouldnt want to be a member of an organization thats mostly men.
~ Bill Owen
Sometimes you can hear them talk, other times you can't. All the same old cliches, is that a woman or a man?
~ Bob Seger
Using a fetching face to make men do as you wish is no different from a man using muscle to force a woman to his will. Both are base, and both will fail a person as they age.
~ Brandon Sanderson
It's hard to hear the story of a love affair between two straight men, one of whom is the most divine woman alive.
~ Brian Topp
Though men may be deep, mentally they are slow.
~ Camille Paglia
Effeminate men have suffered a bad press the world over.
~ Camille Paglia
Tranvestism is far more common among men, I noted, because it originates in the primary relation of mother and son.
~ Camille Paglia
All men are a disappointment. No matter what anyone says.
~ Candace Bushnell
Today's youth seem finally to have understood that only by freeing woman from her exclusively sexual role can man free himself from his ordained role in the rat-race: that of the rat.
~ Carolyn Heilbrun
People in this day and age are still under the illusion that every woman who is successful must be being controlled by a man... I'm the boss.
~ Lily Allen
I always knew I was a man, always felt that I was a man, always wanted to be a man.
~ Little Richard
We ought to regard amiability as the quality of woman, dignity that of man.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
I suppose it is because woman's courage is mental and man's physical, that in times of great strain women always make the better showing.
~ Mary Roberts Rinehart
Men love a joke - on the other fellow. But your really humorous woman loves a joke on herself.
~ Mary Roberts Rinehart
Hoary idea, in any case, expecting a woman to surrender her name to her husband's in exchange for his. Why? Would any man submerge his identity and heritage to the woman he wed?
~ Marya Mannes
Women encourage men to be childish, then scold them.
~ Mason Cooley
When a man falls in love, he wants to go to bed. When a woman falls in love, she wants to talk about it.
~ Mignon McLaughlin
I'm not going to lie about it. I carry a satchel too. It's like a man purse. It's a whole thing.
~ Nick Jonas
In the way that women forget the pain of childbirth, men forget that they cry in movies.
~ Nora Ephron
Wearing a hat implies that you are bald if you are a man and that your hair is dirty if you are a woman.
~ P. J. O'Rourke
This is what you learned in college," the narrator tells you early on. "A man desires the satisfaction of his desire; a woman desires the condition of desiring.
~ Pam Muñoz Ryan