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Quotes About Gender

And there are so much easier ways to destroy a woman. You don't have to rape her or kill her; you don't even have to beat her. You can just marry her. You don't even have to do that. You can just let her work in your office for thirty-five dollars a week.
~ Marilyn French
Male territorial insanity yields only to another male. What a difference the possession of a penis makes!
~ Marilyn French
All men are rapists, and that's all they are. They rape us with their eyes, their laws, their codes.
~ Marilyn French
It does seem true that a young woman may sometimes behave in a way that can be called titillating, and that men take such behavior as being directed entirely at them. [...] I've often seen blushing young men with shining eyes behave in the same way, but no one says of them that they want to be raped. If, after taking a few steps forward, they then decide to retreat, no one accuses them of being cunt teasers. In fact, the disappointed woman probably thinks it's all her fault.
~ Marilyn French
Men: they are what they are and women have to accept that and try to shift around them. Especially men with power. Money. The upper hand. The raised hand. Momma`s philosophy. Here`s to you, Momma. She raised the empty cup. What`s the use of fighting them. What`s the use. To struggle, to live in anger takes everything out of you, drains you, makes people hate you and what`s the use? You get nothing you want, all you get is tired.
~ Marilyn French
It's just that it's fearsome for a man to have a woman start thinking right in front of him. It always leads to trouble.
~ Larry McMurtry, Lonesome Dove
There are no golden geese. There are only fat geese eating the food that could nourish more athletic opportunities for women.
~ Unknown
I suggest to my students that they write under a pseudonym for a week. That allows young men to write as women, and women as men. It allows them a lot of freedom they don't have ordinarily.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
I would like the film to make people think about the place of women in the world - the advances and setbacks that they have experienced these past years in terms of their freedom.
~ Unknown
As a woman, you don't have really much freedom of choice in the Middle East - very often, by the time they are 13 or 14, girls get married.
~ Rula Jebreal
Guys kick friendship all over just like a soccer, nonetheless it does not appear to crack. Girls deal with it like glass and it goes to items.
~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Men's gender problems cause them a lot of suffering. There is a massive spiking suicide rate in middle age for men and a cultural attitude to male friendship that is destructive.
~ Stephen Marche
Male menopause is a lot more fun than female menopause. With female menopause you gain weight and get hot flashes. Male menopause ? you get to date young girls and drive motorcycles.
~ John Wayne
Jesus was a bachelor and never lived with a woman. Surely living with a woman is one of the most difficult things a man has to do, and he never did it.
~ James Joyce
From a girl's point of view, the guy always chooses the slut. From a guy's point of view, the girl always chooses the jerk.
~ Unknown
Marriage is a relationship in which one person is always right and the other is the husband.
~ Unknown
I understand why guys dont take a lot of females serious. A lot of girls dont have any self value, morals or self respect!
~ Unknown
Girls can control their temptations but not their emotions. Guys can control their emotions but not their temptations...
~ Unknown
Why do women live longer than men? Shopping never causes heart attacks, but paying the bills does.
~ Unknown
Women must tell men always that they are the strong ones. They are the big, the strong, the wonderful. In truth, women are the strong ones. It is just my opinion, I am not a professor.
~ Coco Chanel
I feel cheated never being able to know what it's like to get pregnant, carry a child and breast feed
~ Dustin Hoffman
To cheat a man is nothing; but the woman must have fine parts, indeed, who cheats a woman.
~ John Gay
Ever since Eve started it all by offering Adam the apple, woman's punishment has been to supply a man with food then suffer the consequences when it disagrees with him
~ Helen Rowland
Fathers should teach their sons how to earn money because mothers teach their daughters how to spend it.
~ Unknown