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Quotes About Gender

Women flirt to keep their stock high, men to get somewhere.
~ Mignon McLaughlin
With men, as with women, the main struggle is between vanity and comfort; but with men, comfort often wins.
~ Mignon McLaughlin
A husband only worries about a particular Other Man; a wife distrusts her whole species.
~ Mignon McLaughlin
All love is probationary, a fact which frightens women and exhilarates men.
~ Mignon McLaughlin
Women are the right age for just a few years; men, for most of their lives.
~ Mignon McLaughlin
Women gather together to wear silly hats, eat dainty food, and forget how unresponsive their husbands are. Men gather to talk sports, eat heavy food, and forget how demanding their wives are. Only where children gather is there any real chance of fun.
~ Mignon McLaughlin
Desire is in men a hunger, in women only an appetite.
~ Mignon McLaughlin
Men feel that women somehow drag them down, and women feel that way about men. It's possible that both are right.
~ Mignon McLaughlin
Men enjoy being thought of as hunters, but are generally too lazy to hunt. Women, on the other hand, love to hunt, but would rather nobody knew it.
~ Mignon McLaughlin
Women go to beauty parlors for the unmussed look men hate.
~ Mignon McLaughlin
Men prefer brief praise, pitched high; women are satisfied with praise in a lower key, just so it goes on and on.
~ Mignon McLaughlin
Nymphomaniac: a woman as obsessed with sex as an average man.
~ Mignon McLaughlin
De cierto que no, y no por su bella gracia, sino porque la mujer es pájaro que no se aviene a vivir sin jaula, y porque pocos serían los leños que traigo a memeches para rompérselos encima —
~ Unknown
El cristianismo, al fin, y a pesar de la Magdalena, es religión de hombres -se decía Gertrudis-; masculinos el Padre, el Hijo y el Espíritu Santo...!>>. Pero ¿y la Madre? La religión de la Madre está en: <> y en pedir a su Hijo que provea de vino a una bodas, de vino que embriaga y alegra y hace olvidar penas, y para que el Hijo le diga: <<¿Qué tengo yo que ver contigo, mujer? Aún no ha venido mi hora>>
~ Miguel de Unamuno
En esta España de calzonazos —decía— los curas manejan a las mujeres y las mujeres a los hombres...
~ Miguel de Unamuno
We have to unclutter our brains from worries that maybe people don't like us. Women tend to worry about popularity it doesn't matter if they like you. They need to respect you. They need to show that respect for you in your pay check. And that needs to be okay.
~ Mika Brzezinski
My salary situation at 'Morning Joe' wasn't right. I made five attempts to fix it, then realized I'd made the same mistake every time: I apologised for asking.
~ Mika Brzezinski
Women face enough pressures and challenges in a workplace that is still depressingly biased against a female's success. Add to that, the fact that the very thing many women I know find most rewarding (having kids) is now frowned upon.
~ Mika Brzezinski
nothing angers a woman more than the discovery that in the relationship between man and man there are things that women can never understand.
~ Mika Waltari
?piewanie by?o niegodne m??czyzny.
~ Unknown
Stryj Haakani kazaÅ' babie by? cicho, co powinno by? gÅ'ównÄ… rolÄ… kobiet na tym padole Å'ez, zwÅ'aszcza w obecnoÅ›ci m??czyzn.
~ Unknown
Na pocz?tku cz?sto z Niil? dyskutowali?my, czy nasze granie mo?na uzna? za knapsu. S?owo jest tornedalsko-fi?skie i oznacza "babski", zatem co?, czym zajmuj? si? tylko kobiety. Mo?na by powiedzie?, ?e rola m??czyzn w Tornedalen ogranicza si? tylko do jednego: nie by? knapsu.
~ Unknown
Maybe the source of my headache is the recent letter, written by a feminist to my dean and my chancellor, who also happens to be feminist, calling for me to be fired. She wrote the letter because I wrote a little paragraph in my nationally published column suggesting feminists are intolerant of free speech. Maybe I shouldn't be allowed to say that.
~ Unknown
Equal pay isn't just a women's issue when women get equal pay, their family incomes rise and the whole family benefits.
~ Mike Honda