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Quotes About Gender

Men, some to business, some to pleasure take; But every woman is at heart a rake.
~ Alexander Pope
Men, Grace learned, seemed to think women were all frustrated nurses.
~ Alexandra Potter
Yet is there one true line, the pearl of pearls: Man dreams of Fame while woman wakes to love.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
The woman's cause is man's. They rise or sink Together. / Dwarf'd or godlike, bound or free; miserable, / How shall men grow? - Let her be / All that not harms distinctive womanhood.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
Man is the hunter; women are the game; those sleek and shining creatures of the chase. We hunt them for the beauty of their skins; they love us for it, and we ride them down.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
Woman is the lesser man.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
In the long years liker they must grow; The man be more of woman, she of man.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
Woman is the lesser man, and all thy passions, match'd with mine, Are as moonlight unto sunlight, and as water unto wine.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
Women are less aesthetic than men.
~ Alice Eve
Weapons are kept from women, but such a naming suggests that perhaps men fear our talents in war as well as our desire for peace.
~ Alice Hoffman
When women finally get liberated, they'll do the same that men do - dog eat dog - that's what our culture is.
~ Alice Neel
When I first started getting into the business, a young woman in a music game that was mostly men, I did feel inadequate.
~ Alicia Keys
There is no country that has the best men.
~ Alicia Machado
When women are in positions of power it's a hard place to be, especially when that position involves bossing men around.
~ Alison Pill
until ... the promiscuous woman is recognized, not only in law but in public opinion, as being neither better nor worse than the promiscuous man, equality has not been won in the moral sphere.
~ Alison Roberta Noble Neilans
Women hate each other in science. You know why? Because the few that are around were trained by men. They survived by being twice as good and twice as competitive and twice as badass as the guys.
~ Allegra Goodman
I grew up with brothers. I love men. Of course it's hard to be a woman in a man's world.
~ Allison Janney
For centuries, the question of men needing to comprehend women simply didn't arise. Men were valued according to how they measured up to the manly virtues.
~ Allison Pearson
Women have much more heart and much more imagination than men; hence, fancy often allures them.
~ Alphonse de Lamartine
Do not allow your daughters to be taught letters by a man, though he be a St. Paul or St. Francis of Assissium. The saints are in Heaven.
~ Alphonsus Liguori
I think people don't often realize how much goes into being a male dancer. It's athletic and it's hard. It's not just men wearing tights, or wanting to be around women.
~ Amanda Schull
True, man does not know woman. But neither does woman.
~ Ambrose Bierce
What a woman most admires in a man is distinction among men. What a man most admires in a woman is devotion to himself.
~ Ambrose Bierce
Male, A member of the unconsidered or negligible gender. The male of the human race is commonly known to the female as Mere Man. The Genus has two varieties: good providers and bad providers.
~ Ambrose Bierce