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Quotes About Gender

It's funny to me how guys don't know how to act when they realize their dealing with a girl who actually has self respect.
~ Unknown
One can say there are only ?must do? and ?must have? for a so-called real woman. But there are many ?free to do, or not to do? for her either. The most are provided by men who are ready to forgive her almost everything for just one charming smile, which is supposed to be saying ?sorry?.
~ Unknown
When a woman asks for your opinion, what they really want to hear is their opinion...but in a deeper voice.
~ Unknown
Generally speaking, when a woman offers unsolicited advice or tries to help a man, she has no idea of how critical and unloving he may sound to him.
~ John Gray
When women are the advisers, the lords of creation don't take the advice till they have persuaded themselves that it is just what they intended to do; then they act upon it, and if it succeeds, they give the weaker vessel half the credit of it; if it fails, they generously give her the whole. in Little Women.
~ Louisa May Alcott
I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.
~ Gloria Steinem
Its not easy being a mother. If it were easy, fathers would do it.
~ Unknown
Women's liberation is just a lot of foolishness. It's men who are discriminated against. They can't bear children. And no one is likely to do anything about that.
~ Golda Meir
Men are like Bluetooth: He is connected to you when you are nearby, but searches for other devices when you are away...Women are like Wi-Fi: She sees all available devices but connects to the strongest one...
~ Unknown
Buddies didn't have touchable breasts or intriguing vaginas. Buddies were people you burped around and bragged to about other women.
~ Unknown
Despite the man's intimidating mountain-man looks, Wallace dated men, women and some people who seemed to skate between genders.
~ Unknown
People don't always see what their eyes tell them is there. They see what they have made up their minds to see, and I'm afraid they might make up their minds that something done by a woman could not possibly be as good as that done by a man.
~ Unknown
In a world where men have always been in charge, it was hard for women to break through. But Ka'ahumanu was different. She was born to rule (Kneubuhl 27)
~ Unknown
Most people can recall schoolyard confrontations with with bullies. Boys were expected to deal with them by standing their ground and slugging it out, even, as one man told me, "if you knew you were going to get your head bashed in. You had to show you could take it, and you'd die rather than cry." But for girls, the surest and safest way to avoid being picked on or terrorized is to get the bully to like you.
~ Victoria Secunda
My...principles in talking to a woman: do not ask permission; do not say hello; ...do not let her speak first...give a woman the chance to reject something else besides me...statements, not questions, were less likely to lead to no.
~ Viet Thanh Nguyen
As the crapulent major said, A man doesn't need balls in this country, Captain. The women all have their own.
~ Viet Thanh Nguyen
All this time I kept my gaze fixed on hers, an enormously difficult task given the gravitational pull exerted by her cleavage. While I was critical of many things when it came to so-called Western civilization, cleavage was not one of them. The Chinese might have invented gunpowder and the noodle, but the West had invented cleavage, with profound if underappreciated implications.
~ Viet Thanh Nguyen
Oh, no said her mother sadly. You know nothing of the pettiness of women. When brothers agree to split a joint family they sometimes divide lakhs of rupees worth of property in a few minutes. But the tussle of their wives over the pots and pans in the common kitchen--that nearly causes bloodshed.
~ Vikram Seth
A learned woman is a lost woman.
~ Unknown
A poor man who marries a rich woman is not his wife, but a ruler.
~ Unknown
A woman can be judged by her cooking, her dressing and her husband.
~ Unknown
Fathers should teach their sons how to earn money because mothers teach their daughters how to spend it.
~ Unknown
Marriage is a device originated by women for looting the men.
~ Unknown
Marriage is functional in which the woman must cook the food every day and the man has to eat it every day.
~ Unknown