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Quotes About Gender

I'm furious about the women's liberationists. They keep getting up on soapboxes and proclaiming that women are brighter than men. That's true, but it should be kept very quiet or it ruins the whole racket.
~ Anita Loos
Men are no more immune from emotions than women; we think women are more emotional because the culture lets them give free vent to certain feelings, feminine ones, that is, no anger please, but it's okay to turn on the waterworks.
~ Unknown
Women... can't live with 'em... can't shoot 'em.
~ Ivan Turgenev
I love men, not because they are men, but because they are not women.
~ Unknown
I much prefer being a man. Women have to spend so much time pulling themselves together, and their shoes kill your feet.
~ Unknown
She even had a kind of special position among men: she was an exception, she fitted none of the categories they commonly used when talking about girls; she wasn't a cock-teaser, a cold fish, an easy lay or a sneaky bi...; she was an honorary person. She had grown to share their contempt for most women.
~ Margaret Atwood
Women are the twin halves of men.
~ Muhammad
No men who really think deeply about women retain a high opinion of them; men either despise women or they have never thought seriously about them.
~ Otto Weininger
To conclude that women are unfitted to the task of our historic society seems to me the equivalent of closing male eyes to female facts.
~ Unknown
As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked for them.
~ Maya Angelou
I don't know why women want any of the things men have when one the things that women have is men.
~ Coco Chanel
Women who insist upon having the same options as men would do well to consider the option of being the strong, silent type.
~ Fran Lebowitz
Is there no way for men to be, but women Must be half-workers?
~ William Shakespeare
Men err from selfishness; women because they are weak.
~ Madame de Stael
The foolish and cruel notion that a wife is to obey her husband has sent more women to the grave than to the courts for a divorce.
~ Unknown
Men know that women are an over-match for them, and therefore they choose the weakest or most ignorant. If they did not think so, they never could be afraid of women knowing as much as themselves.
~ Samuel Johnson
We have to be careful in this era of radical feminism, not to emphasize an equality of the sexes that leads women to imitate men to prove their equality. To be equal does not mean you have to be the same.
~ Eva Burrows
Men need rule books. Women want men to intuit what they want. And only about 2% of men can do that, and most of them are not heterosexual.
~ Dennis Prager
I have some women friends but I prefer men. Don't trust women. There is a built-in competition between women.
~ Unknown
Let men see what's coming to them, and women will get what's coming to them.
~ Mae West
Men and women, women and men, It will never work.
~ Erica Jong
If there hadn't been women we'd still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.
~ Orson Welles
Never was it given to mortal man - To lie so boldly as we women can.
~ Alexander Pope
Women naturally deceive, weep and spin.
~ Proverb