Quotes About Gender

it is not only unfair but disgustingly cruel that the mother is always held responsible for the illegitimate child, while the father goes scot-free.

How strange, when your father's wearing women's clothes and platform shoes, that a pair of loafers looks incredible.

I think my father was somewhat disappointed in not having had a son, and in that way I was the nearest thing he had.

One encounters very capable fathers abashed by their piano-playing daughters. Three measures of Schumann make them red with embarrassment.

When I was 7, I wanted to be a jockey. My father told me women weren't allowed. I couldn't believe it. I was perfectly willing to fail on my own merits, but to be flunked at birth?

My mother is a Muslim - she walks five steps behind my father. She doesn't have to. He just looks better from behind.

It is admirable for a man to take his son fishing, but there is a special place in heaven for the father who takes his daughter shopping.

Mothers are a biological necessity; fathers are a social invention

If it were natural for father to care for their sons, they would not need so many laws commanding them to do so.

When a father climbs a dangerous mountain and dies, we mourn. When a mother does, we question her judgment. How could she?

As a husband and as a father of girls, I cannot imagine any woman in my family making the sacrifice of sanity required to run for office. The limited reward for public service cannot blunt the cost.

I was also an only child and my father really wanted a son - he's from that generation - it was always about kung-fu theater on Sundays and boxing games on the weekend.

When I was growing up in the 50s it wasn't quite the same. Fathers were more protective and now they see all of the possibilities for their daughters.

The reality of marriage as the union of a mother and a father is grounded in our very biology.

My parents, especially my father, discussed the question of my brothers' education as a matter of real importance. My education and that of my sister were scarcely discussed at all.

But never fear, gentlemen; castration was really not the point of feminism, and we women are too busy eviscerating one another to take you on.

An awful lot of thriller writers write women rather badly. So just doing it OK gets a lot of credit.

All your words are but to say: you are a woman, and your part is in the house. But... I can ride and wield blade, and I do not fear either pain or death.

Hi, I'm a girl. I run from guys that want to make me happy & fight for the ones that make me cry.

The average woman would rather have beauty than brains, because the average man can see better than he can think.

A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man.

I love being a girl because we can act like guys without looking homo.

Girls are like cell phones, they like to be held and talked to, but press the wrong button and you're disconnected. Guys are like buses. If you miss that one, another will be along soon.

The nation needs to return to the colonial way of life, when a wife was judged by the amount of wood she could split.