Quotes About Gender

Men often give love for sex, women often give sex for love.

Many estates are spent in the getting, since women for tea forsake spinning and knitting, and men for punch forsake hewing and splitting.

Young men and young women meet each other with much less difficulty than was formerly the case, and every housemaid expects at least once a week as much excitement as would have lasted a Jane Austen heroine throughout a whole novel.

There has come into existence, chiefly in America, a breed of men who claim to be feminists. They imagine that they have understood ''what women want'' and that they are capable of giving it to them. They help with the dishes at home and make their own coffee in the office, basking the while in the refulgent consciousness of virtue. Such men are apt to think of the true male feminists as utterly chauvinistic.

One would suppose in reading them that women possess but one class of physical organs, and that these are always diseased.

Aren't women prudes if they don't and prostitutes if they do?

In retrospect, it is evident that the emphasis on 'man as enemy' deflected attention away from focus on improving relationships between women and men, ways for men and women to work together to unlearn sexism.

Much of the ill-tempered railing against women that has characterized the popular writing of the last two years is a half-hearted attempt to find a way back to a more balanced relationship between our biological selves and the world we have built. So women are scolded both for being mothers and for not being mothers, for wanting to eat their cake and have it too, and for not wanting to eat their cake and have it too.

There is nothing that disgusts a man like getting beaten at chess by a woman.

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.

Housework is what a woman does that nobody notices unless she hasn't done it.

Male supremacy has kept woman down. It has not knocked her out.

I thank God I am not a woman, to be touched with so many giddy offences as He hath generally taxed their whole sex withal.

A woman has a much better chance than a man of acquittal on a murder charge. If she happens to be a blonde her chances rise about 45 percent.

As regards the individual nature, woman is defective and misbegotten, for the active power of the male seed tends to the production of a perfect likeness in the masculine sex; while the production of a woman comes from defect in the active power.

It is far easier for a woman to lead a blameless life than it is for a man; all she has to do is to avoid sexual intercourse like the plague.

No man in his heart is quite so cynical as a well-bred 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.

Women don't care. We care about nice arms, great eyes, a big di..... I've never once heard a woman say: He had such a big full scrotum.

The University of Ilinois has hired 15 women to smell pig manure all day so that researchers can find out what makes pig manure smell so bad. You know who I feel sorry for? The woman who applied for this job and got turned down.

Marriage, Sir, is much more necessary to a man than to a woman; for he is much less able to supply himself with domestick comforts.

It is better for a woman to compete impersonally in society, as men do, than to compete for dominance in her own home with her husband, compete with her neighbors for empty status, and so smother her son that he cannot compete at all.

Enable every woman who can work to take her place on the labour front, under the principle of equal pay for equal work.

The glorification of the 'woman's role, then, seems to be in proportion to society's reluctance to treat women as complete human beings; for the less real function that role has, the more it is decorated with meaningless details to conceal its empt.