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Quotes About Gender

I've always liked men better than women.
~ Bette Davis
Women are necessary evils.
~ Proverb
Crying is the refuge of plain women but the ruin of pretty ones.
~ Oscar Wilde
If you were on a sinking ship and yelled, Women and children first! how much feminist opposition do you think you'd get? . . . Women want to fight men for equal pay, but how often do they fight a man for the check? . . . And any man who questions a woman's physical capabilities gets branded a sexist -- but who do they call when there's a spider to be killed? Convenient feminism -- crackpot theory or dangerous lunacy?
~ Bill Maher
If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.
~ Saul Bellow
Men naturally resent it when women take greater liberties in dress than men are allowed.
~ Michael Korda
Men use a new lesson or experience later on as a ploughshare or perhaps also as a weapon; women at once make it into an ornament.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
It is hardly surprising that women concentrate on the way they look instead of what was in their minds since not much has been put in their minds to begin with.
~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
People in the States used to think that if girls were good at sports their sexuality would be affected. Being feminine meant being a cheerleader, not being an athlete. The image of women is changing now. You don't have to be pretty for people to come and see you play. At the same time, if you're a good athlete, it doesn't mean you're not a woman.
~ Martina Navratilova
And when immorality prevails, O Krishna, the women of the family become corrupted; when women are corrupted, social problems arise.
~ Bhagavad Gita
I believe in the single standard for men and women.
~ Mae West
I am one of the few men honest enough to say they do not understand women.
~ Robert Menzies
Men and women belong to different species and communications between them is still in its infancy.
~ Bill Cosby
Supposing that Truth is a woman ---well, now, is there not some foundation for suspecting that all philosophers, insofar as they were dogmatists, have not known how to handle women?
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
~ Marcel Proust
People ask me what I think about that woman priest thing. What, a woman priest? Women priests. Great, great. Now there's priests of both sexes I don't listen to.
~ Bill Hicks
Men get laid, but women get screwed.
~ Quentin Crisp
Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be women.
~ Margaret Mead
Men have hitherto treated women like birds which have strayed down to them from the heights; as something more delicate, more fragile, more savage, stranger, sweeter, soulful - but as something which has to be caged up so that it shall not fly away.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
I do not believe in using women in combat, because females are too fierce.
~ Margaret Mead
Plain women know more about men than beautiful ones do.
~ Katharine Hepburn
Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to be as mediocre as possible.
~ Margaret Mead
Yet consider now, whether women are not quite past sense and reason, when they want to rule over men.
~ John Calvin