Quotes About Gender

I have thought that men and women should never come together except in bed. There is the only place where their natural hatred of each other is not so apparent.

the warfare between the unaroused male and female is constant and ferocious. Each blames the other for his loss of soul.

To his mind, a healthy woman was a broke woman. A dame with money was a kind of a half-assed man.

Woman can change better'n man,'' ''Woman got all her life in her arms. Man got it all in his head.

Men, they were able to conjure it up immediately, that was one of their powers, that thunderous splashing as they stood lordly above the bowl. Everything about them was more direct, their insides weren't the maze women's were, for the pee to find its way through.

She stands by the edge of the bed, baggy in nakedness, and goes off into the bathroom to do her duty. There's that in women repels him: handle themselves like an old envelope. Tubes into tubes, wash away men's dirt—insulting, really. Faucets cry. The more awake he gets the more depressed he is. From deep in the pillow he stares at the horizontal strip of stained-glass church window that shows beneath the window shade. Its childish brightness comes from years away.

Men are absolutely shits, but we get them in the end because we can suffer better. A woman can outsuffer a man every time.

I'd rather have a daughter in a whorehouse than a son in the police force,' Esther used to rage to anyone who would listen.

Of the 850 million lacking basic literacy, the UN estimated that two-thirds were women. This had a terrible carryover effect, as it's typically the women who are rearing the family's children. If the mother is educated, it is much more likely that education will be passed on to the next generation.

In the 1790s, more than a century before the invention of modern dating culture, an underground sexual economy flourished on a scale almost unimaginable today. Men, whether they were married or not, enjoyed wide sexual latitude: they could often pursue an active sexual double life without incident. Women, on the other hand, faced a stark contrast between sexual respectability and social ruin.

men paid one group of women to provide the services that their respectable counterparts would not.

I don't think a female running a house is a problem, a broken family. It's perceived as one because of the notion that a head is a man.

The family code in Egypt is one of the worst family codes in the Arab world. Polygamy. The husband is having absolute power over the family.

My mom and dad got divorced when I was very young, and growing up in a family where the head of the household wasn't a man made a big difference.

Probably a mistake, you know, that people make in America, to think that all great chefs are a male... I'm still the only male in the family who went into that business.

Nowadays it's not who wears the pants in the family, but who carries the credit cards.

I grew up with all boys in my family, where there was no place for girlie stuff. But it's amazing to walk into my house now. Everything is pink!

For men, the answer was always the same and never farther away than the nearest sword. For a woman, a mother, the way was stonier and harder to know.

I've always read broadly: literary fiction, sci-fi, fantasy, chick lit, historical, dystopian, nonfiction, memoir. I've even read Westerns. I prefer female protagonists.

Nothing nice happens to murdered women.

You grow up with your father holding you down and covering your mouth so another man can make a horrible searing pain between your legs.

Sexism is not the fault of women - kill your fathers, not your mothers

My father had declared a predilection for heirs general, that is, males and females indiscriminately.... I, on the other hand, had a zealous partiality for heirs male, however remote.

My father wanted me to have all the educational opportunities he never had... so he sent me to a girls school.