Quotes About Gender

My wife once said that if men had to worry about who was going to clean up the mess, there'd be a lot less violence in the world.

Men are unwise and curiously planned.

A man penetrates, conquers, colonizes, plants. A woman receives, surrenders, accepts.

I have never had a man give me money. I've always been the provider. I have always been the one who went out and earned, and I've never felt unequal in that way.

Yesterday people were going past my window in t shirts and dresses. But that's the men at the BBC for you.

A woman, no matter the age, is always learning, always becoming. But a man . . . stops learning at fourteen or so.

A woman's uniqueness is her greatest appeal to a man - and his greatest challenge.

No, I have never wanted to be a man. I have often wanted to be more effective as a woman, but I have never felt that trousers would do the trick!

If it's a man's game so decidedly that a woman would be soiled by entering it, then there is something radically wrong with the American game of politics.

When men are scared of a woman, they always accuse her of being mannish.

I spent a week living as a man. Which was actually, I'm sorry to say, embarrassingly easy for me to do.

if you men only knew how we love a man who can be just a woman to us sometimes!

... it is always the men we won't allow to make love to us, who take our characters away.

But why should I cast myself in the ancient female part of victim of men's plots and passions?

I hate how box-office failures are blamed on an actress, yet I don't see a box-office failure blamed on men.

What we consider typical of the male is a question I ask myself quite often - its relevant to my life as an actor and as a man.

Men don't have as many difficulties and are more supported to combine the different aspects of their life.

Men don't have the benefits of equality either.

Do you not yet understand what has made woman what she is? Then see what the sickly taste and perverted judgment of man now admires in woman.

I love humility in a woman. It's so rare. With man, of course, it is practically extinct.

I think one of the things that is easy to have happened in a superhero story is that the female character, whether she be a heroine or not, can often be the wart on the man.

Given a decent start any girl can beat a man nowadays.

Often a man can play the helpless child in front of a woman, but he can almost never bring it off when he feels most like a helpless child.

If you put a woman in a man's position, she will be more efficient, but no more kind.