Quotes About Gender

Male and female represent the two sides of the great radical dualism. But in fact they are perpetually passing into one another. Fluid hardens to solid, solid rushes to fluid. There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman.

There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman.

Male and female represent the two sides of the great radical dualism. But in fact they are perpetually passing into one another. Fluid hardens to solid, solid rushes to fluid. There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman... Nature provides exceptions to every rule.

Vous ne pouvez pas le croire, vous les hommes, mais la seule raison pour laquelle les femmes assument ce qui vous convient le plus, c'est que vous les empêchez de découvrir ce qui leur convient à elles. Si elles avaient la liberté, si elles avaient la sagesse de pleinement développer leur force et leur beauté de femmes, elles ne souhaiteraient jamais être des hommes ou semblables à des hommes.

Mar ni ženska zemlja, luna, hiša? In ni moškega, tudi najve?je barabe, najve?jega ženomrzca in samca, ki ni vsaj enkrat v življenju za?util želje, da bi pokleknil pred žensko. Za ves trud, ki ga opravlja v veliki mreži življenja.

Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents.

Women want mediocre men, and men are working to be as mediocre as possible.

Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be women.

The mind is not sex-typed.

Mothers are a biological necessity; fathers are a social invention.

The institution of marriage in all societies is a pattern within which the strains put by civilization on males and females alike must be resolved, a pattern within which men must learn, in return for a variety of elaborate rewards, new forms in which sexual spontaneity is still possible, and women must learn to discipline their receptivity to a thousand other considerations.

Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.

Tutte le discussioni sullo stato delle donne, sul carattere e il temperamento delle donne, sulla sottomissione o l'emancipazione delle donne, fanno perdere di vista il fatto fondamentale, e cioè che le parti dei due sessi sono concepite secondo la trama culturale che sta alla base dei rapporti umani e che il fanciullo che cresce è modellato, altrettanto inesorabilmente comeLa fanciulla, secondo un canone particolare e ben definito.

The usual masculine disillusionment in discovering that a woman has a brain.

For everybody knows that it requires very little to satisfy the gentlemen, if a woman will only give her mind to it.

She had chained herself to her place in society and the family through the maternal functions of her nature, and only chains thus strong could have bound her lot as a brood animal for the masculine civilizations of the world.

One of the things being in politics has taught me is that men are not a reasoned or reasonable sex.

No woman in my time will be prime minister or chancellor or foreign secretary - not the top jobs. Anyway, I wouldn't want to be prime minister you have to give yourself 100 percent.

In politics, If you want anything said, ask a man. If you want anything done, ask a woman.

If you want something spoken about, ask a man. If you want something done, ask a woman.

In general, more nonsense was written about the so-called 'feminine factor' during my time in office than about almost anything else. I was always asked how it felt to be a woman Prime Minister. I would reply: 'I don't know: I've never experienced the alternative.

In politics, if you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman

If you want something said,ask a man;if you want something done,ask a woman.

I don't think there will be a woman prime minister in my lifetime.