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Quotes About Gender

The sacredness of the male mind is allied to the struggle for power in that men, claiming objectivity, can also claim universal validity for their values. In this sense the word man, correctly in their view, can encompass women, although the converse is not true and the word woman can never stand for the general but only for the particular.
~ Unknown
No, Grace, it's not 'Miss Calhoun.'" Daniel had heard her say those words many times. They'd always set his teeth on edge. "It's Mrs. Reeves." Daniel added with angry triumph, "And guess what? I'm calling you Grace and the boys are calling you Ma.
~ Mary Connealy
There are no frigid women, only clumsy men.
~ Anon
Nobody will ever win the battle of the sexes. Theres too much fraternizing with the enemy.
~ Henry Kissinger
Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
~ Oscar Wilde
Men marry women with the hope they will never change. Women marry men with the hope they will change. Invariably they are both disappointed.
~ Albert Einstein
Smart women love smart men more than smart men love smart women.
~ Natalie Portman
A man falls in love through his eyes, a woman through her ears.
~ Woodrow Wyatt
It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they couldn't charge sixteen dollars for that little tiny jar.
~ Unknown
Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
~ Deborah Tannen
Nothing spoils a romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman.
~ Oscar Wilde
Sigmund Freud once said, What do women want? The only thing I have learned in fifty-two years is that women want men to stop asking dumb questions like that.
~ Bill Cosby
All the men in my family were bearded, and most of the women.
~ WC Fields
I don't want to play sex roles any more. I'm tired of being known as the girl with the shape.
~ Marilyn Monroe
Nobody will ever win the battle of the sexes. There is too much fraternizing with the enemy.
~ Henry Kissinger
Women say all men are the same, but they have no problem telling you how different you are from Mel Gibson.
~ Anonymous
A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
~ Edgar Watson Howe
Part of the reason that men seem so much less loving than women is that men's behavior is measured with a feminine ruler.
~ Unknown
Nobody will ever win the battle of the sexes. There?s too much fraternizing with the enemy.
~ Henry Kissinger
Where neither love nor hatred is in the game, a woman's game is mediocre.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
It seems to me that the real clue to your sex-orientation lies in your romantic feelings rather than in your sexual feelings. If you are really gay, you are able to fall in love with a man, not just enjoy having sex with him.
~ Christopher Isherwood
For what is the beloved? She is that which I myself am not. In the act of love, I am pure male, and she is pure female. She is she, and I am I, and clasped together with her, I know how perfectly she is not me, now perfectly I am not her, how utterly we are two, the light and the darkness, and how infinetly and eternally, not-to-be-comprehended by either of us is the surpassing One we make.
~ DH Lawrence
Girls marry for love. Boys marry because of a chronic irritation that causes them to gravitate in the direction of objects with certain curvilinear properties.
~ Ashley Montague
Can you imagine a world without men? No crime and lots of happy, fat women.
~ Unknown