Quotes About Gender

But women who have common sense are so curiously plain, father, aren't they? Of course I only speak from hearsay. No woman, plain or pretty, has any common sense at all, sir. Common sense is the privilege of our sex. Quite so. And we men are so self-sacrificing that we never use it, do we, father?

Men have educated us. But not explained you. Describe us as a sex, was her challenge. Sphinxes without secrets.

But, to the philosopher, my dear Gerald, women represent the triumph of matter over mind - just as men represent the triumph of mind over morals.

Gwendolen.  How absurd to talk of the equality of the sexes!  Where questions of self-sacrifice are concerned, men are infinitely beyond us.

To the philosopher women represent the triumph of matter over mind, just as men represent the triumph of mind over morals.

Never marry at all, Dorian. Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious: both are disappointed." "I don't think I am likely to marry, Harry. I am too much in love. That is one of your aphorisms. I am putting it into practice, as I do everything that you say.

The only way to behave to a woman is to make love to her, if she is pretty, and to some one else, if she is plain.

My dear father, if we men married the women we deserved, we should have a very bad time of it.

How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly rational being.

How you men stand up for each other! How you women war against each other!

Hiç evlenme, Dorian. Erkek, yorgun düÅŸtüÄŸü için evlenir, kad?n merak duyduÄŸu için. Ä°kisi de hayal k?r?kl???na uÄŸrarlar.

I like men who have a future and women who have a past, he answered.

If a woman wants to hold a man she has merely to appeal to what is worst in him.

The development of Africa will not happen without the effective participation of women. Our forefathers' image of women must be buried once for all.

How the hell could Rhiannon keep people loyal to her if she was such a bitch?" Alanna gave me a knowing look. "I mean female people. It's obvious how she kept her men happy." My hands were planted on my hips and I was tapping my foot in time with my anger. (I looked very teacherish—as a matter of fact, I felt the sudden desire to reprimand a teenager. But there's never one around when you need one.)

What was the old saying? If it has tires or testicles, it's gonna give you problems .

I want to be a Huntress when I grow up! shouted a voice from the throng. Kyna rolled her eyes and shook her head. You can't be a Huntress, Liam. You're not a centaur and you're not a female.

When boys get mad its not so bad When girls get mad world WW3 is about to start!

She was, in short, melted by his distress, as so often happens with the female sex. Poets have frequently commented on this. You are probably familiar with the one who said, Oh, woman in our hours of ease tum tumty tiddly something please, when something something something brow, a something something something thou.

Little as he knew of women, he was aware that as a sex they are apt to be startled by the sight of men crawling out from under the seats of compartments.

Science, with a thousand triumphs to her credit, has not yet succeeded in discovering the correct reply for a young man to make who finds himself in the appalling position of being apologized to by a pretty girl.

Mother always used to say, 'If you want to succeed in life, please the women. They are the real bosses. The men don't count.

Hypatia, like all girls who intend to be good wives, made it a practice to look on any suggestions thrown out by her future lord and master as fatuous and futile.

I suppose the cave-woman sometimes felt rather relieved when everything was settled for her with a club, but I'm sure the caveman must have had a hard time ridding himself of the thought that he had behaved like a cad and taken a mean advantage.