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Quotes About Gender

If the men in the room would only think how they would feel graduating with a 'spinster of arts' degree they would see how important this is.
~ Gloria Steinem
The problem with Superwoman is that she has to do it all, inside the home and outside the home. If there is a man there doing half of it, that's a different world.
~ Gloria Steinem
We'll only really know we've succeeded when a mediocre woman does as well as a mediocre man. You shouldn't have to be extraordinary. That's the point!
~ Gloria Steinem
Man is the poet who kills, Woman the angel who eats.
~ Greg Bear
We are a society that values a man for what he does in the world, a woman for how she looks.
~ Lillian B. Rubin
When I train against men, I always find that I push myself harder to my absolute maximum.
~ Lindsey Vonn
I'm not the marrying kind -" St. Vincent snorted. "No man is. Marriage is a female invention.
~ Lisa Kleypas
Men are like dogs," Stacy was fond of saying. And she usually went on to add that, like dogs, they all took up too much space on the bed, and they always went for the crotch.
~ Lisa Kleypas
What a lot of people don't know, because in a lot of TV and movies, they have a lot of men talking about computers - it was a woman who invented the first compiler!
~ Lisa Ling
The age, you know. A man can be wiser and wiser, and a woman is older and older.
~ Liv Ullmann
What a strange thing is man! And what a stranger is woman.
~ Lord Byron
Every man is to be had one way or another and every woman almost anyway.
~ Lord Chesterfield
He was a man. Men always had lewd thoughts. It was perfectly natural and normal
~ Loretta Chase
Just because I squeezed my gigantic bottom into men's trousers, you needn't assume my brains have shrunk to masculine size.
~ Loretta Chase
We're of one mind, Grenville and I, and the mind is hers, on account of my being a man and not having one.
~ Loretta Chase
Now we are expected to be as wise as men who have had generations of all the help there is, and we scarcely anything.
~ Louisa May Alcott
The question arises as to whether it is possible not to live in the world of men and still to live in the world.
~ Louise Bernikow
I hate to disappoint my haters, but I'm not the least bit interested in being a man. I'm perfectly satisfied with the female role.
~ Madalyn Murray O'Hair
The other thing that happened was that we have a tendency to project our own weaknesses onto another woman. I don't think men do that particularly.
~ Madeleine Albright
Often if you don't speak up, whatever you thought was stupid to say some man would say and then everyone would say 'as he said'.
~ Madeleine Albright
Woman: You certainly know the way to a man's heart. Mae West: Funny, too, 'cause I don't know how to cook.
~ Mae West
All of them are men, not a girl amongst them unless you count Tommy Falk because his lips are so pretty.
~ Maggie Stiefvater
Dory is what Mum used to call a "strong-looking woman," which means that, from the back, she looked like a man, and, from the front, you preferred the back
~ Maggie Stiefvater
Man has regarded woman as his tool. She has learnt to be his tool and in the end found it is easy and pleasurable to be such, because when one drags another in his fall, the descent is easy.
~ Mahatma Gandhi