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Quotes About Gender

My own opinion is that just as fundamentally man and woman are one, their problems must be one in essence.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
God has blessed man with seed that has the highest potency and woman with a field richer than the richest earth to be found anywhere on his globe.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
It is degrading both for man and woman that woman should be called upon or induced to forsake the hearth and shoulder the rifle for the protection of that hearth.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
The woman has circumvented man in a variety of ways in her unconsciously subtle ways, as the man has vainly and equally consciously struggled to thwart the woman in gaining ascendancy over him.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
In a plan of life based on nonviolence, woman has as much right to shape her own destiny as man has to shape his.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
I hate to get gender essentialist, but I'm starting to think that a lot of married men have some sort of heterosexually induced dentistry aversion.
~ Mallory Ortberg
I'm just a girl in a nurse's uniform, but that doesn't mean I know how to save these men, and they- they are men in uniforms, but that doesn't mean they know how to die.
~ Marcus Sedgwick
Not one man, in the million, shall I say? no, not in the hundred million, can rise above the belief that woman was made for man.
~ Margaret Fuller
We don't want to be the same as men, merely equal as human beings.
~ Margaret Heckler
Envy of the male role can come as much from an undervaluation of the role of wife and mother as from an overvaluation of the public aspects of achievement that have been reserved for men.
~ Margaret Mead
For every man with a baseball story - a memory of a moment at the plate or in the field - there is a woman with a couldn't-play-baseball story.
~ Mariah Nelson
As you know, I don't believe in fear, just an invention by men so they get all the money and good jobs.
~ Marian Keyes
I don't like this idea of division: that if you're a clever woman then you've got to be a particular way. Because men don't. Men please themselves.
~ Marian Keyes
Real liberation for men means that they can explore and integrate their feminine aspects of consciousness.
~ Marianne Williamson
If I had to choose between a narrow-minded woman or a man who was an enlightened thinker, I would vote for the man.
~ Marianne Williamson
Girls shouldn't worry about being the equal of men in the business world.
~ Marilyn Monroe
I want to dominate the man's world.
~ Marina Abramovic
You have heretofore found out, by my teachings, that man is a fool; you are now aware that woman is a damned fool.
~ Mark Twain
If you're a man and you ask questions, you're a genius; if you're a woman, you're difficult.
~ Martine McCutcheon
Do you think a man is the only creature with whom one may fall in love?
~ Mary MacLane
When man, governed by reasonable laws, enjoys his natural freedom, let him despise woman, if she do not share it with him.
~ Mary Wollstonecraft
I'm just glad that the whole John Wayne persona of a man is sort of old school now, because I'd never be able to do that. If that was the going rate today, I wouldn't be working.
~ Matthew Perry
I don't understand men. I don't even understand what I don't understand about men.
~ Maureen Dowd
It's harder for men to imagine themselves as the girl in the movies than it is for me to imagine myself as Daniel Craig bringing down the building.
~ Meryl Streep