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Quotes About Gender

Women are good for 70 things, sandwiches and 69.
~ Unknown
It is the woman - nearly always - in spite of all the advances of modern feminism, who still takes responsibility for the bulk of the chores, as well as doing her paid job. This is true even in households where men try to be unselfish and to do their share.
~ Unknown
Men are fast to call lady's whore but must faster to put their manhood in one.
~ Unknown
I don't think anyone can teach you how to be a man but a woman. You only learn by learning what they need.
~ Ryan Gosling
Like a compass needle that points north, a man's accusing finger always finds a woman. Always.
~ Khaled Hosseini
Women should earn equal pay for equal work.
~ Barack Obama
To men, women are just city buses. There's another one every five minutes.
~ Unknown
I believe that it is as much a right and duty for women to do something with their lives as for men and we are not going to be satisfied with such frivolous parts as you give us
~ Louisa May Alcott
I hate women because they always know where things are.
~ Malcolm de Chazal
God made man stronger but not necessarily more intelligent. He gave women intuition and femininity. And, used properly, that combination easily jumbles the brain of any man I've ever met.
~ Farrah Fawcett
She'd stopped reading the kind of women's magazine that talked about romance and knitting and started reading the kind of women's magazine that talked about orgasms, but apart from making a mental note to have one if ever the occasion presented itsel
~ Terry Pratchett
Male superiority in former days was easily demonstrated, because if a woman questioned her husband's he could beat her. From superiority in this respect others were thought to follow. Men were more reasonable than women, more inventive, less swayed b
~ Bertrand Russell
She (a woman politician) will be challenging a system that is still wedded to militarism and that saves billions of dollars a year by underpaying women and using them as a reserve cheap labor supply
~ Bella Abzug
Certainly in the next 50 years we shall see a woman president, perhaps sooner than you think. A woman can and should be able to do any political job that a man can do.
~ Unknown
Women do two thirds of the world's work. Yet they earn only one tenth of the world's income and own less than one percent of the world's property. They are among the poorest of the world's poor.
~ Unknown
Many of our troubles in the world today arise from an over-emphasis of the masculine, and a neglect of the feminine. This modern world is an aggressive, hyperactive, competitive, masculine world, and it needs the woman's touch as never before.
~ Eva Burrows
Men are sad because they have to die so soon, women are sad because they were born so long ago.
~ Henry Louis Mencken
It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in a language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.
~ Thomas Hardy
No man can call himself liberal, or radical, or even a conservative advocate of fair play, if his work depends in any way on the unpaid or underpaid labor of women at home or in the office
~ Gloria Steinem
Boys are sent out into the world to buffet with its temptations, to mingle with bad and good, to govern and direct - girls are to dwell in quiet homes among few friends, to exercise a noiseless influence.
~ Elizabeth Missing Sewell
Our struggle today is not to have a female Einstein get appointed as an assistant professor. It is for a woman schlemiel to get as quickly promoted as a male schlemiel.
~ Bella Abzug
Does being a feminist mean that I believe that I'm as good as any man? Yes.
~ Yasmine Bleeth
Pride and dignity would belong to women if only men would leave them alone
~ Egyptian Proverb
A woman as the leader of the Free World is an impossibility. Muslim countries won't talk to you.
~ Geena Davis