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Quotes About Gender

No differences exist in the quality of muscle between males and females.
~ Unknown
When a teenaged girl asked Trump during a campaign rally whether he believed women deserved equal pay, he irritatingly responded, "Only if you do as good of a job." Well, the question is, how can a woman do as good a job if society is designed in such a way that women don't have equal individual rights?
~ Vicente Fox
Along with racism and sexism, our society has a form of caste system based on what you do for money. We call that jobism, and it pervades our interactions with one another on the job, in social settings and even at home. Why else would we consider housewives second-class citizens? Or teachers lower status than doctors even though their desk-side manner with struggling students is far better than many doctors' bedside manner with the ill and dying?
~ Vicki Robin
Alexandros's baiting and my experience at the Jewish temple opened my eyes to the fact that most men thought women inferior. After all, I had grown up under the shadow of the most powerful woman in the world. I saw great men prostrate themselves at her feet. I worshipped at the altar of the greatest Goddess of All, Isis.
~ Unknown
The first symptom of love in a young man is shyness; the first symptom in a woman, it's boldness.
~ Victor Hugo
I looked at the girls and sighed. Poor creatures, I said to myself, you also will end up in his jump heap. Lawrence isn't one to be caught by partygoers. When he's had his fill of your sort, he will go home to his village and dig out a farm girl, like a cocoyam, a girl who will produce his kids while he continues to enjoy his freedom.
~ Unknown
Yes, well, there's something to be said for damsels who need rescuing." Thomas's gaze strayed back to Marianne. She would never need rescuing. And wasn't there something to be said for that as well?
~ Victoria Alexander
Beauty provokes harassment, the law says, but it looks through men's eyes when deciding what provokes it.
~ Naomi Wolf
As women demanded access to power, the power structure used the beauty myth materially to undermine women's advancement.
~ Naomi Wolf, The Beauty Myth
I am very much against makeup and high heels and all that we inherit as 'beauty.'
~ Nawal El Saadawi
We are in the midst of a violent backlash againist feminism that uses images of female beauty as political weapons against women's advancement.
~ Naomi Wolf
I have no right to beauty. I had been condemned to masculine ugliness.
~ Renee Vivien
The best way to stop girls achieving anything is to force them to achieve everything.
~ Laurie Penny
If supporters of equality for women want to vote for the best candidate, they must look to a person regardless of gender and must disregard the gender of political opponents.
~ Karen DeCrow
I think I have the best of both worlds because I am a woman, but I'm also a tomboy.
~ Elle King
In business we cut each others' throats, but now and then we sit around the same table and behave-for the sake of the ladies.
~ Aristotle Onassis
The big thing for me is, I never think about myself as a female in business. I'm a person in business.
~ Lori Greiner
Some days you just want to get dressed and go about your business. But if you're a woman, you can't, because there is no unmarked woman.
~ Deborah Tannen
I'm going to be 58, and I'm a woman. In this business, that seems to be a bigger crime than being mentally ill
~ Patty Duke
To my father, business was the highest calling, but to my mother, medicine was the top profession.
~ William Standish Knowles
The odds are not in your favor the older you get, especially if you're a woman in this business.
~ Patricia Clarkson
Generally speaking, historically in this country, the care of a child has been thought of as female business.
~ Eddie Bernice Johnson
But maybe because the dot-com world gives people positions at a younger age, and many women are prominent in this business, it will help change the view about who can run big companies.
~ Christie Hefner
Being beautiful is not so fun when you're in a business with all men.
~ Lady Gaga