Quotes About Gender

Publishers are in business to make money, and if your books do well they don't care if you are male, female, or an elephant.

Let me ask you. If someone called you and offered you a ride in the Indianapolis 500 and you were a male race car driver, would you turn the ride down?

Why is it that all cars are women? Because they're fussy and demanding.

It's funny I'm in some ways hopelessly masculine, but I don't fish, I don't hunt, I'm not that into sports. I can't fix a car. I think it's my point of view and the way I see the world.

Ten thousand years of civilization shed in an instant when you put a woman behind the wheel of a car.

We say that "to let woman drive a car is like to let monkey fly a plane".

You're either a child or a woman, and neither of them have any idea how to relax.

I don't know that men are better judges than women, said Florence, but they spend much less time regretting their decisions.

think, indeed, that women have a better grasp on the whole business of life than we men have. We are morally better than they are, but they can reach perfection, we can't. And that is in spite of the fact that they particularise, we generalise.

I'm sure you didn't. You're either a child or a woman, and neither of them have any idea how to relax.' 'You watch it,' said Christine.

So far as I am concerned the difference between men and women is that men are interested in cutting grass and women are not. I actually prefer a daisy-sprinkled lawn; Jack, of course, wanted meticulous stripes.

her view of gender distinction was that men were a different breed from women, you deferred to them in some respects and recognized that they had special needs--cooked breakfast and somewhere to go and smoke.

When one demands equal rights for women, one needs to assess in which areas women can work better than men, in which they can work like men, and in which they need protection and affirmative action for when they cannot work like men.

Her principal tutor, Roger Ascham, reported that at the age of sixteen 'the constitution of her mind is exempt from female weakness, and she is endowed with a masculine power of application.

You cant spell overreacting with out ovary, because you are a girl

Likewise the subjection of woman to man results from the perfection of the male and the imperfection of the female sex.

Sometimes the women much resent the men who call for war and have been known to rush upon them and beat them severely about the head and shoulders.

Though a few older men cut fingers in time of grief, it is usually the smallest girls who are selected for this ceremony, and a woman in the valley whose left hand is not a stump is very rare.

More important still, we do not yet know how many of these differences are really due to the different genetic endowments of the different races and sexes, and how many are due to poor schools, poor housing, and other factors that are the result of past and continuing discrimination.

Does she make the heavens fall? Yes, she pulls down everything. Molinari nodded. It's a psionic talent she has... it's called being a woman.

Without a woman we'd discuss racing cars and horses and tell dirty jokes; no civilization.

it is always the women who rebuild the civilizations that the men have done their best to destroy

Tolkien, who created this marvellous vehicle, doesn't go anywhere in it. He just sits where he is. What I mean by that is that he always seems to be looking backwards, to a greater and more golden past; and what's more he doesn't allow girls or women any important part in the story at all. Life is bigger and more interesting than The Lord of the Rings thinks it is.

Speaking for myself, I've always found great intelligence in a woman a highly attractive feature.