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Quotes About Gender

Man is a natural polygamist: he always has one woman leading him by the nose, and another hanging on to his coattails.
~ H. L. Mencken
Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing they die earlier.
~ H. L. Mencken
The first kiss is stolen by the man; the last is begged by the woman.
~ H. L. Mencken
On one issue, at least, men and women agree: they both distrust women.
~ H. L. Mencken
He remembered the saying "Raise a son for your old years." He reasoned, Even though a boy is believed superior to a girl, his life may not be easy either. He will have to become a provider for his parents when he grows up. Selfish. How often parents have sons so that they can exploit them in the future. They prefer boys to girls mainly because sons will provide more, are worth more as capital.
~ Ha Jin
How many times, have I had to seat women whom I received at audiences next to me, rather than facing me, in order to avoid general embarrassment? Nothing should compel us to suffer such trials. It puts the nerves of men and the modesty of women to a severe test.
~ Habib Bourguiba
I really hate the implication that just because I'm small and female, I can't take care of myself.
~ Hajime Kanzaka
Se stie insa ca sursa tuturor greutatilor moderne este ceea ce numesc eu inertia masculina. Problemele in casnicie au aparut numai dupa ce barbatii nu au mai plecat pe mare si au inceput in schimb sa bocaneasca pe langa casa in weekenduri. Barbatii au inteles si ei in sfarsit chestia asta si incearca sa umple tot acest timp liber care le ramane cu treburi urgente imaginare.
~ Hallgrimur Helgason
Man muss wohl als Frau auch immer ein bisschen Nazi sein.
~ Hallgrimur Helgason
There is no pride in a masculinst history that deprives half of humanity a pride of place, the dignity of who and what they are.
~ Hamid Dabashi
Not for nothing did phrases like 'he who marries for love has good nights and bad days' and insults like 'cunt-struck,' the eighteenth-century equivalent of saying that someone was thinking with his dick, survive into the Victorian age.
~ Hanne Blank
I often thought men stank of rage; it is why I preferred women, and homosexuals.
~ Harold Brodkey
On the subject of "personal beauty," for example, Lincoln merrily confided he felt fortunate that "'the women couldn't vote,' otherwise the monstrous portraits of him which had been circulated during the canvas by friends as well as by foes would surely defeat him.
~ Harold Holzer
Well, I think there is always a conflict between the sexes. Women want to dominate men, but men shouldn't let them do that.
~ Harold Schechter
I looked out at the children in the playground below my window: They were running around yelling in the sunshine, and I reflected on how blokes always get the women they want by chasing them until they give in. I'm always amazed that so many men—usually the ugly ones—are convinced they could pull Claudia Schiffer if they were given the chance, while someone gorgeous ... is always convinced blokes don't fancy her. It rarely happens the other way round.
~ Harriet Evans
I did my MA on Elizabethan women who demanded to choose their husbands. It really annoys me, that it's basically the same thing today. Who are we going to end up with? [...] It's a race,and everyone else is on the tracks and I'm at the wrong venue, with the wrong shoes on
~ Harriet Evans
I don't agree with all-male leaderships. Men cannot be left to run things on their own. I think it's a thoroughly bad thing to have a men-only leadership.
~ Harriet Harman
Women, however, have long been discouraged from the awareness and forthright expression of anger. Sugar and spice are the ingredients from which we are made. We are the nurturers, the soothers, the peacemakers, and the steadiers of rocked boats. It is our job to please, protect, and placate the world. We may hold relationships in place as if our lives depended on it.
~ Harriet Lerner
When women equate requesting a behavioral change with trying to teach the proverbial pig to sing, we don't strengthen our voice. Instead, we get sucked in by the latest research findings about how male and female brains are different, so men can't really be expected to pick up their socks. It feels easier to give up and adapt to unfair circumstances, despite the enormous long-term toll of making such accommodations.
~ Harriet Lerner, Ph.D.
The sum and substance of female education in America, as in England, is training women to consider marriage as the sole object in life, and to pretend that they do not think so.
~ Harriet Martineau
There is no inherent reason or necessity that all women should voluntarily choose to devote their lives to one animal function and its consequences. Numbers of women are wives and mothers only because there is no other career open to them,---no other occupation for their feelings or activities.
~ Harriet Taylor Mill
I've got a stack of various tedious paperwork-type jobs to do, but few of them are urgent. Over the other side of the office, a couple of DCs are making piles of empty coffee cups and trying to knock them over by throwing a soft indoor rugby ball at them. There are yells of laughter when they succeed, more yells when they fail. I sometimes think it must be a lot easier to be a man.
~ Harry Bingham
The rule in the women's colleges was that after 7 p.m. all men were beasts. Up until 7 p.m. they were all angels, and the girls simply had to learn to live with that routine and practise love in the afternoon.
~ Harry G. Johnson
No man does right by a woman at a party.
~ Harry Golden