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Quotes About Gender

[ Hollywood] is a patriarchy, headed by men and built for men.
~ Ava DuVernay
And that night we knew that to hold the body of women in our arms in neither ugly nor shameful, but the one ecstasy granted to the race of men.
~ Ayn Rand
Men simply don't understand how women are. They think there's some other kind.
~ Babs Deal
We shouldn't have a bunch of politicians, a majority of whom are men, making health care decisions on behalf of women.
~ Barack Obama
From my earliest memory, times of crisis seemed to end up with women in the kitchen preparing food for men.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
Being a woman in music was fine, but when I wanted to direct, I was poking my head into a man's world.
~ Barbra Streisand
You don't ask a man, 'Do you want to be in control [of your job]?' You assume he wants control. Why would a woman be any different?
~ Barbra Streisand
I believe there's a huge distinction between un macho and a real man. I don't think you have to be one to be another.
~ Benjamin Bratt
When men and woman die, as poets sung, his heart's the last part moves, her last, the tongue.
~ Benjamin Franklin
Thomas Aquinas states parenthetically, as something entirely obvious, that men are more rational than women. For my part, I see no evidence of this.
~ Bertrand Russell
It was the duty of wives to submit to husbands, not of husbands to submit to wives. . . men have stronger muscles than women.
~ Bertrand Russell
There was, I think, never any reason to believe in any innate superiority of the male, except his superior muscle.
~ Bertrand Russell
I don't think in business it matters whether you're a man or a woman if you can do your job and have a brain.
~ Bette Davis
The [film] business is run by men, and they're basically interested in their own species, and they're not so interested in women belonging to the human race.
~ Bette Midler
We are at war with men, and most women don't even know it.
~ Betty Dodson
You know, equality is a myth, and for some reason, everyone accepts the fact that women don't make as much money as men do. I don't understand that. Why do we have to take a backseat?
~ Beyonce Knowles
I ... would guess maybe about one or two out of five men is suited for marriage and probably four out of five women are better at marriage than being single and would like to be married.
~ Bill Maher
How men hate waiting while their wives shop for clothes and trinkets; how women hate waiting, often for much of their lives, while their husbands shop for fame and glory.
~ Bill Vaughan
Women are more emotional. They do get flustered. Which is not to say that men are better than they. It's simply the way it is.
~ Bob Newhart
He took his misfortune like a man - he blamed it on his wife.
~ Bob Phillips
We are a generation of men raised by women. I'm beginning to wonder if another woman is what we really need.
~ Brad Pitt
I think basically most men are misogynistic.
~ Bret Easton Ellis
Only men are capable of aesthetic greatness.
~ Brian Sewell
Women communicate with all their senses. Men don't do that.
~ Brooke Burke