Quotes About Gender

Woman is not born: she is made. In the making, her humanity is destroyed. She becomes symbol of this, symbol of that: mother of the earth, slut of the universe; but she never becomes herself because it is forbidden for her to do so.

My father was a statesman, I am a political woman. My father was a saint. I am not.

Nobody objects to a woman being a good writer or sculptor or geneticist if at the same time she manages to be a good wife, good mother, good looking, good tempered, well groomed and unaggressive.

It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple: one must be a woman manly, or a man womanly.

When she stopped conforming to the conventional picture of femininity she finally began to enjoy being a woman.

Disguise our bondage as we will, 'Tis woman, woman, rules us still.

Never met a wiseman if so it's a woman!

Man, born of woman, has found it a hard thing to forgive her for giving him birth. The patriarchal protest against the ancient matriarch has borne strange fruit through the years.

The scorn men express for a male who does housework is exceeded only by their aversion to a woman who doesn't.

A man must know how to fly in the face of opinion; a woman to submit to it.

A woman never forgets her sex. She would rather talk with a man than an angel, any day.

Man's love is of man's life a thing apart, 'Tis woman's whole existence.

Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, She doesn't have what it takes; They will say, Women don't have what it takes.

The man flaps about with a bunch of feathers: the woman goes to work softly with a cloth.

For women... bras, panties, bathing suits, and other stereotypical gear are visual reminders of a commercial, idealized feminine image that our real and diverse female bodies can't possibly fit. Without these visual references, each individual woman's body demands to be accepted on its own terms. We stop being comparatives. We begin to be unique.

As a woman, I find it very embarrassing to be in a meeting and realize I'm the only one in the room with balls.

This is courtship all the world over - the man all tongue; the woman all ears.

Maybe men and women aren't from different planets as pop culture would have us believe. Maybe we live a lot closer to each other. Perhaps, dare I even say it, in the same zip code.

Feminism is hated because women are hated. Anti-feminism is a direct expression of misogyny; it is the political defense of women hating.

There is one thing women can never take away from men. We die sooner.

We've always been ready for female superheroes. Because women want to be them and men want to do them.

While gossip among women is universally ridiculed as low and trivial, gossip among men, especially if it is about women, is called theory, or idea, or fact.

When men attempt bold gestures, generally it's considered romantic. When women do it, it's often considered desperate or psycho.

Black women . . . work because their husbands can't make enough money at their jobs to keep everything going. . . . They don't go to work to find fulfillment, or adventure, or glamour and romance, like so many white women think they are doing. Black women work out of necessity.