Quotes About Gender

All my friends were girls. Then my mom's strident feminism for years where men were thought of as the enemy, I just didn't know what the right way to be a man was.

I say that male and female are cast in the same mold; except for education and habits, the difference is not great.

Being a CEO used to be something you did for 15 years. Now you do it for five, maybe. The lifespan is getting shorter and shorter, regardless if you are a man or a woman.

Do you really think a man must be strong, masculine, dominating, and the woman frail, obedient and sensitive? This is a conventional idea. Reality is quite different.

They can get married. They can marry a man if they're a woman. Or they can marry a woman if they're a man.

I've worked in television for 10 years straight. If I were a man, it wouldn't be considered strange [to have confidence] at all.

I think a lot of people compare female writers or female comedians to each other in a way that men are not. Male comedy writers are not scrutinized.

In my writers' room, which is mostly men, I get a lot of questions like "What would be the quickest way to pass as a seemingly normal guy between the ages of twenty-five and forty years old?"

If God wanted us to ask questions, he would have made us men.

For some men the power to destroy life becomes the equivalent to the female power to create life.

For most men, a stepford wife would bore them to tears after a couple of weeks

Men should also pay attention to their appearance and occasionally use cosmetics.

You cannot leave the house to take the garbage out without full-on makeup and your hair done. You have to fight for your man out there.

We may love men and we may live with men, but some of them have said stupendously inaccurate things about us, our bodies, and our psyches.

Man is a wretch without woman; but woman is a monster-and thank Heaven, an almost impossible and hitherto imaginary monster--without man, as her acknowledged principal!

I knew I hated him as only a woman can hate a man, as only a slave can hate his master.

I'm very hairy, and men in film and TV are no longer allowed to be hairy.

I think it's kind of written in stone that men are supposed to have strong feelings about age, but I've never really thought about it.

I've felt that if I just used initials nobody would know whether I was a man or a woman, a dog or a tiger. I could hide from view, like a bat on the underside of a branch.

You don't want to have to be the man and the woman in the relationship. I always say you want a man who can fix the toilet.

I must confess that I too am a woman and that I am always prepared to applaud a woman who is more daring than I, and is equal to a man in fighting for freedom of behavior.

Didgeridoo was something I picked up while I was on tour in Australia with Peter Gabriel in '93. I found out later that it's only meant to be played by men.

love comes to man through his senses - to woman through her imagination.

Can man be free if woman be a slave?