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Quotes About Gender

Based on my own experience, boys will mess with your heart and girls with your head.
~ David Baldacci
It had always bothered Tom that women thought they could win an argument with a man simply by appealing to his baser instincts, by holding out the mere possibility of award-winning carnal knowledge. It was the gender-battle equivalent of a preemptive nuclear strike. He thought it unfair and, quite frankly, disrespectful of the entire male population.
~ David Baldacci
This guy had taken great care to not allow even a piece of his skin to be observed. They didn't even know if he was black or white. Although most mass murderers were white. And male.
~ David Baldacci
It wasn't his place to judge the women. Theirs was the harder job, here in the wilderness. His tasks were simple—to hunt, fight, and if need be, to die. Theirs was to go on, whatever it took.
~ David Brin
Some men feel guilty for not being as "into" the relationship as their woman is. You must understand that this is natural.
~ David Deida
In my workshops and consultations I hear independent and successful women complaining that many of today's men have become "wimps," too weak and ambiguous to really trust. Sensitive and affectionate men are complaining that many of today's women have become "ballbusters," too hardened and emotionally guarded to fully embrace. Is this the ultimate expression of human sexual wisdom and evolution, or is there another step to take?
~ David Deida
The Way of the Superior Man is a book written explicitly for people who have already achieved respect for other genders and sexual preferences, and who consider men and women to be social, economic, and political equals. Now, we are ready to move to the next stage, grounded in this mutual respect and equality, but celebrating the sexual and spiritual passions inherent in the masculine/feminine polarity.
~ David Deida
Men's minds ran to straight lines, but women thought more in terms of circles.
~ David Eddings
With still, underneath, the old respectable-girl-versus-slut thing. It's OK to fuck around if you're a feminist but it's also not OK to fuck around because most guys aren't feminists and won't respect you and won't call you again if you fuck around.
~ David Foster Wallace
That females are capable of being just as vulgar about sexual and eliminatory functions as males.
~ David Foster Wallace
great big huge titties
~ David Foster Wallace
The Great White Male is rap's Grand Inquisitor, its idiot questioner, its Alien Other no less than Reds were for McCarthy.
~ David Foster Wallace
Breasts are uniformly zeppelinesque and in various perilous stages of semiconfinement.
~ David Foster Wallace
What tortures have men to endure, comparable to those daily repeated shafts of scorn and cruelty with which poor women are riddled by the tyrants of their sex?
~ William Makepeace Thackeray
A woman with fair opportunities, and without an absolute hump, may marry WHOM SHE LIKES. Only let us be thankful that the darlings are like the beasts of the field, and don't know their own power. They would overcome us entirely if they did.
~ William Makepeace Thackeray
Van had never been difficult, and Rosey never easy, because she was a girl, a woman, her mother's daughter, another order of crature entirely, a member of another race - a lovely, irresistible, unaccountable, enchanting and difficult race.
~ William Saroyan
Van had never been difficult, and Rosey never easy, because she was a girl, a woman, her mother's daughter, another order of creature entirely, a member of another race - a lovely, irresistible, unaccountable, enchanting and difficult race.
~ William Saroyan
Do you not know I am a woman? when I think, I must speak.
~ William Shakespeare
Women may fall when there's no strength in men. Act II
~ William Shakespeare
He that hath a beard is more than a youth, and he that hath no beard is less than a man. He that is more than a youth is not for me, and he that is less than a man, I am not for him.
~ William Shakespeare
Well, niece, I hope to see you one day fitted with a husband. BEATRICE Not till God make men of some other metal than earth. Would it not grieve a woman to be overmastered with a pierce of valiant dust? to make an account of her life to a clod of wayward marl? No, uncle, I'll none: Adam's sons are my brethren; and, truly, I hold it a sin to match in my kindred.
~ William Shakespeare
O God, that I were a man! I would eat his heart in the marketplace.
~ William Shakespeare
Frailty, thy name is woman!
~ William Shakespeare
Proper deformity shows not in the fiend So horrid as in woman.
~ William Shakespeare