Quotes About Gender

Just 2 percent of the world's population and 5 percent of white people in the U.S. have blond hair, but 35 percent of female U.S. senators and 48 percent of female CEOs at S&P 500 companies are

You don't speak unless you are spoken to and your body speaks to the space you fill and you keep trying to fill it except the space belongs to the body of the man next to you, not to you.

You men always try to tell our story. You men always get it wrong.

It suddenly dawned on me one day, when I was reading in the paper about a woman wrestler, that being a curmudgeon was the last thing in the world that a man can be that a woman cannot be. Women can be irritating -- after all, they are women -- but they cannot be curmudgeons.

Anthropology in general has always been fairly hospitable to female scholars, and even to feminist scholars.

I do think the attempt to raise consciousness has succeeded. People are very aware of gender concerns now.

Gender consciousness has become involved in almost every intellectual field: history, literature, science, anthropology. There's been an extraordinary advance.

Why do women have cunts?" "I can't imagine." "So that men will talk to them.

The worth of a man is usually co-existing with a woman. The worth of a woman is solely dependent on herself.

The problem, as far as I can tell, is that women spend infinitely more time than men paying attention to, competing with, worrying about, everyone other than themselves.

A man accepts the thankless burden of responsibility. We women do not. To us, life is a game we play one day at a time.

Stefan George: "He looks like an old woman who looks like an old man.

Women must tell men always that they are the strong ones. They are the big, the strong, the wonderful. In truth, women are the strong ones. It is just my opinion, I am not a professor.

I don't know why women want any of the things men have when one the things that women have is men.

Women have always been the strong ones of the world. The men are always seeking from women a little pillow to put their heads down on. They are always longing for the mother who held them as infants.

John Quincy Adams subscribed to the thesis that his mother's generation was unique when he complained to [his wife] that there were no modern women like her. Abigail, God love her, shot back that women might act frivolous and flighty, but only because men wanted them to.

Cornwallis voiced his lament that even if he destroyed all the men in America, he'd still have the women to contend with.

He may have hair upon his chest but, sister, so has Lassie.

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Vrouwen hebben niet genoeg verstand om optimaal te profiteren van het feminisme.

Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.

There are far too many men in politics and not enough elsewhere.

When a woman removes her garment, she also removes the respect that is hers.

A woman takes off her claim to respect along with her garments.