Quotes About Gender

No woman needs intercourse; few women escape it.

Men at most differ as Heaven and Earth, but women, worst and best, as Heaven and Hell.

Except for their genitals, I don't know what immutable differences exist between men and women. Perhaps there are some other unchangeable differences; probably there are a number of irrelevant differences. But it is clear that until social expectations for men and women are equal, until we provide equal respect for both sexes, answers to this question will simply reflect our prejudices.

Women are the only oppressed group in our society that lives in intimate association with their opressors.

Men, as well as women, are much oftener led by their hearts than by their understandings.

A country that can put men on the moon can put women in the Constitution.

Men become much more attractive when they start looking older. But it doesn't do much for women, though we do have an advantage: make-up.

Women have a favorite room, men a favorite chair.

Nothing can be more absurd than the practice that prevails in our country of men and women not following the same pursuits with all their strengths and with one mind, for thus, the state instead of being whole is reduced to half.

Men are the enemies of women. Promising sublime intimacy, unequalled passion, amazing security and grace, they nevertheless exploit and injure in a myriad subtle ways. Without men the world would be a better place: softer, kinder, more loving; calmer, quieter, more humane.

Fifty percent of the world are women, yet they always seem a novelty.

A study in the Washington Post says that women have better verbal skills than men. I just want to say to the authors of that study: Duh.

Men seem unable to feel equal to women: they must be superior or they are inferior.

The human race has been set up. Someone, somewhere, is playing a practical joke on us. Apparently, women need to feel loved to have sex. Men need to have sex to feel loved. How do we ever get started?

The main difference between men and women is that men are lunatics and women are idiots.

Women are quite able to make friends with a man; but to preserve such a friendship - that no doubt requires the assistance of a slight physical antipathy.

Women must understand that simply attacking or hating men is just another form of disempowerment. A woman has to realize that when she makes a man crawl it doesn't give her power.

Women speak because they wish to speak, whereas a man speaks only when driven to speech by something outside himself-like, for instance, he can't find any clean socks.

Whenever women catfight, men think it's going to turn to sex.

The most mediocre of males feels himself a demigod as compared with women.

Men have been trained and conditioned by women, not unlike the way Pavlov conditioned his dogs, into becoming their slaves. As compensation for their labours men are given periodic use of a woman's vagina.

Whether women are better than men I cannot say - but I can say they are certainly no worse.

Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?

I have never seen a man as fond of virtue as of women.