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Quotes About Gender

I wonder if my shrink (sorry, psychiatrist) was a woman not a man I'd be in a better or worse state?
~ Fay Weldon
A woman who places a high priority on performance and excellence is seen as imperial. A man is seen as demanding and tough.
~ Faye Wattleton
I always wanted to sound like a man, like Jeff Buckley or Tom Waits.
~ Florence Welch
Old models of farming with chemicals and credit mostly favored privileged men.
~ Frances Moore Lappé
Much as I honor the wisdom of the princess--there is something more dashing about a man.
~ Franz Grillparzer
The most important problem for our world to solve is the inequality of men and women.
~ Frederick Lenz
We all have a cross-gender character: Every woman has a man that they can play, and every man has a woman that they can play.
~ Gael Garcia Bernal
Men. One minute they have their tongues down your throat and the next they're forbidding you from meeting your own father and criticizing your fashion choices.
~ Gemma Halliday
The only way for a woman to provide for herself decently is for her to be good to some man that can afford to be good to her.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Husbands are an inferior class of men, who require keeping in order.
~ George Eliot
Every man who is not a monster, a mathematician, or a mad philosopher, is the slave of some woman or other.
~ George Eliot
A woman who is not quite a fool will forgive your being but a man, if you are surely that. . .
~ George Meredith
You little fool. Tears are not a woman's only weapon. You've got another one between your legs, and you'd best learn to use it. You'll find men use their swords freely enough. Both kinds of swords.
~ George R. R. Martin
English culture is basically homosexual in the sense that the men only really care about other men.
~ Germaine Greer
The few men who do a hand's turn around the house expect gratitude and recognition, so sure are they that, though it is their dirt, it is not their job.
~ Germaine Greer
Men ought to become more conscious of their bodies as objects of delight.
~ Germaine Greer
Testosterone is a great equalizer, it turns all men into morons.
~ Giles Deacon
I never wanted to be a man. I feel sorry for them.
~ Glenn Close
When you're playing a man, you can look tired and horrible and you still look okay. As a woman, if you're tired, it's terrible. It was such a luxury not having to worry about that.
~ Glenn Close
Men tend to gain wholeness by acquiring the qualities that are wrongly called feminine.
~ Gloria Steinem
If you're going to have a male dominant system, to maintain the system, you have to teach men to dominate.
~ Gloria Steinem
When men realize that feminism is a universal good that affects them in very intimate ways then I think they really become allies and leaders.
~ Gloria Steinem
If men started taking care of children, the job will become more valuable.
~ Gloria Steinem
A man can be called ruthless if he bombs a country to oblivion. A woman can be called ruthless if she puts you on hold.
~ Gloria Steinem