Quotes About Gender

You can be two things if you're a woman, Dolores. Betty Crocker or a floozy. Just remember your place - even if it kills you.

As my father talked, tears dripped down the side of his face like candle wax. The sight shocked me; until that moment, I had assumed men were as incapable of crying as they were of having babies.

But when a boy was born—on February 24, 1955—the designated couple decided that they wanted a girl and backed out.

This entailed switching around by hand ENIAC's rat's nest of cables and resetting its switches. At first the programming seemed to be a routine, perhaps even menial task, which may have been why it was relegated to women, who back then were not encouraged to become engineers. But what the women of ENIAC soon showed, and the men later came to understand, was that the programming of a computer could be just as significant as the design of its hardware.

a prim and proper lady who sat up front who had been, I was later told, President Eisenhower's personal pilot when she was a male

American science and engineering was even more sexist than it is today," Jennings said.

What drives people to kill and maim each other so savagely?" Einstein asked. "I think it is the sexual character of the male that leads to such wild explosions.

The thrust of his parent's views, at least when applied to the situation of Mileva Maric rather than Marie Winteler, was that a wife was a luxury, affordable only when a man was making a comfortable living. I have a low opinion of that view of a relationship between a man and wife, he [Einstein] told Maric, Because it makes the wife and the prostitute distinguishable only insofar as the former is able to secure a life-long contract.

Male bonding groups are associations of loners. The male values a companion whom he can stand up against and who can stand up against him: each receives assurance from the other's decently adversative stance, for it reminds him of his own needs and resources. This masculine intense friendly aggression is foreign to most women's experience.

It's hard for a man to understand a woman because a man just desires her; but women, most of them anyway, desire desire.

Men are weak, Mr. Rawlins. They're strong of arm but frail in their hearts. They need forgiveness more than women do.

Same thing's wrong with all men," the white woman said in a husky voice. "Thinkin' about a woman's butt and then wonderin' why they got shit for brains.

I'm a twenty-first-century New Yorker and therefore have little time to contemplate race. It's not that racism doesn't exist. Lots of people in New York, and elsewhere, hate because of color and gender, religion and national origin. It's just that I rarely worry about those things because there's a real world underneath all that nonsense; a world that demands my attention almost every moment of every day.

When a woman forgets that she's supposed to be pretty and on display she looks like that murdered girl did, just somebody who's tired and needs to rest.

It was woman that taught me cruelty, and on woman therefore I have exercised it.

Certainly, quoth Athelstane, women are the least to be trusted of all animals, monks and abbots excepted.

When women hold off from marrying men, we call it independence. When men hold off from marrying women, we call it fear of commitment.

Men's greatest weakness is their facade of strength, and women's greatest strength is their facade of weakness.

I am a men's liberationist (or masculist) when men's liberation is defined as equal opportunity and equal responsibility for both sexes. I am a feminist when feminism favors equal opportunities and responsibilities for both sexes. I oppose both movements when either says our sex is THE oppressed sex, therefore, we deserve rights. That's not gender liberation but gender entitlement. Ultimately, I am in favor of neither a women's movement nor a men's movement but a gender transition movement.

It is in the interests of both sexes to hear the other sex's experience of powerlessness.

The equivalent of a woman being treated as a sex object is a man being treated as a success object.

And if your son is unemployed? Three out of four women say they would not date an unemployed man. In contrast, for two-thirds of men, dating an unemployed woman is a nonissue.

Every day in about half the advertisements, a man sees the constant reminder of the woman he was not worthy of.

Women do not enter a profession in significant numbers until it is physically safe. So until we care enough about men's safety to turn the death professions into safe professions, we in effect discriminate against women.