Quotes About Gender

Housekeepers, homemakers, wives, and mothers are fundamental social relations, which rest upon woman's characteristics, physical, mental, and moral.

God is our father, but even more is God our mother.

Women are the victims of this patriarchal culture, but they are also its carriers. Let us keep in mind that every oppressive man was raised in the confines of his mother's home.

If I had a choice of educating my daughters or my sons because of opportunity constraints, I would choose to educate my daughters.

My mother always told me I had to do 100 times better than a man. I had to work hard at maths, and learn four languages.

As there were no black Founding Fathers, there were no founding mothers - a great pity, on both counts.

A man is free to go up as high as he can reach up to; but I, with all my style and pep, can't get a man my equal because a girl is always judged by her mother.

In a husband, there is only a man; in a married woman, there is a man, a father, a mother and a woman.

I don't want to deny my femininity. But would I want to be a stay-at-home mother? No. On the other hand, you should be allowed to do that, as should men, without being sneered at.

I'd like to think I'm a normal sort of guy, but go to my mum and she'll probably say, 'You know,Chris was always the daughter out of my three boys.'

a woman may be called a wife and mother for most of her life, while a man is called a husband and father only at his funeral.

The trouble with marriage is that, while every woman is at heart a mother, every man is at heart a bachelor.

What is called matriarchy is simply moral anarchy, in which the mother alone remains fixed because all the fathers are fugitive and irresponsible.

I can't point to any major episodes of sexual discrimination in my early life. But I was so aware of the crime, the shame that there was no use of my mother's ability and energy.

Can you cook books and feed them to your husband? Stay at home with your mother. Learn to cook and clean. Grow vegetables.

I remember when my mother pointed to a stone, and she said this was the kind of stone people used to place on the feet of the baby girls to stop them trying to climb away and unbind their feet.

My sons are a hell of a lot easier to get through to than my daughter is. She seems to have my number. She can just run through the buttons.

When an actress takes off her clothes onscreen but a nursing mother is told to leave, what message do we send about the roles of women?

Countries are either mothers or fathers, and engender the emotional bristle secretly reserved for either sire.

I can't say I really see much difference between my son and daughters except that my girls will occasionally make me a sandwich and my son won't.

Fathers and sons are much more considerate of one another than mothers and daughters.

Every woman becomes their mother. That's their tragedy. And no man becomes his. That's his tragedy.

Gender reassignment is an exorcism of the mother

Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.