Quotes About Gender

In the theory of gender I began from zero. There is no masculine power or privilege I did not covet. But slowly, step by step, decade by decade, I was forced to acknowledge that even a woman of abnormal will cannot escape her hormonal identity.

The superiority of one man's opinion over another's is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman.

Home is the girl's prison and the woman's workhouse.

Man is the one who desires, woman the one who is desired. This is woman's entire but decisive advantage. Through man's passions, nature has given man into woman's hands, and the woman who does not know how to make him her subject, her slave, her toy, and how to betray him with a smile in the end is not wise.

A man never knows how to say goodbye; a woman never knows when to say it.

Of all things upon earth that bleed and grow, a herb most bruised is woman.

What's the point of being a lesbian if a woman is going to look and act like an imitation man?

A woman has to be twice as good as a man to go half as far.

A woman should never be seen eating or drinking, unless it be lobster salad and Champagne, the only true feminine and becoming viands.

An actress can only play a woman. I'm an actor, I can play anything.

Nothing is sooner dry than a woman's tears.

An actor is something less than a man, while an actress is something more than a woman.

I realize that homosexuality is a serious problem for anyone who is - but then, of course, heterosexuality is a serious problem for anyone who is, too. And being a man is a serious problem and being a woman is, too. Lots of things are problems.

No matter what a woman's appearance may be, it will be used to undermine what she is saying and taken to individualize - as her personal problem - observations she makes about the beauty myth in society.

I think the worst woman that ever existed would have made a man of very passable reputation - they are all better than us and their faults such as they are must originate with ourselves.

I trust it will not be giving away professional secrets to say that many readers would be surprised, perhaps shocked, at the questions which some newspaper editors will put to a defenseless woman under the guise of flattery.

I would never let a woman kick my ass. If she tried something, I'd be like, HEY! You get your bi... a.. back in the kitchen and make me some pie!

The woman's vision is deep reaching, the man's far reaching. With the man the world is his heart, with the woman the heart is her world.

You see, dear, it is not true that woman was made from man's rib; she was really made from his funny bone.

Once man demanded virtue in woman; now all he expects is that she be discreet.

To give up your seat in a car to a woman, and tread on your neighbor's foot to get even.

A woman is handicapped by her sex, and handicaps society, either by slavishly copying the pattern of man's advance in the professions, or by refusing to compete with man at all.

A man's eroticism is a woman's sexuality.

Men are allowed to have passion and commitment for their work ... a woman is allowed that feeling for a man, but not her work.