Quotes About Gender

The man makes History, the woman is History.

No men who really think deeply about women retain a high opinion of them

Great men have always preferred women of the prostitute type.

Woman, in short, has an unconscious life, man a conscious life, and the genius the most conscious life.

I have come to the law which I shall now formulate by a method the validity of which I shall now have to prove. The law runs as follows :("For true sexual union it is necessary that there come together a complete male (M) and a complete female (F), even although in different cases the M and F are distributed between the two individuals in different proportions.)

I do not wish to be a coward like the father of mankind and throw the blame upon a woman.

He mistook, as the cleverest men often do mistake, in underrating the cruelty of women.

Ouida is not afraid to play with gender roles and her explorations of femininity in men and masculinity in women, were considered avant-garde

There is one thing women can never take away from men. We die sooner.

There's a certain kind of behavior in the Arab world that, to me, resembles the way young men behave when there is no significant influence from women in their lives.

A lot of men wouldn't like being called a romantic. It's not macho enough.' Quite often men are fools.

Actually, since I'm gay I think I should count for two guys instead of just one. I mean, in me you get the male point of view and you don't have to worry about me wanting to touch your boobies.

A lot of men wouldn't like being called a romantic. It's not macho enough.' Quite often men are fools.

At the age of eleven or thereabouts women acquire a poise and an ability to handle difficult situations which a man, if he is lucky, manages to achieve somewhere in the later seventies.

Si dice che tirino più due tette di un paio di buoi, ma la vera arma segreta di una donna, per prendere all'amo un uomo, è dimostrare di provare una certa ammirazione per lui. Per mia fortuna conosco il trucco e quindi mi concentro sulle tette.

sabía también, si se llama saber a esa certeza absoluta que se va adquiriendo a fuerza de repensar lo mismo, y que las viejas del pueblo llaman manías, que después de los 30, un hombre no puede hacerse amigo de una mujer. Que hay mucho sexo alborotado envuelto en la relación, mucho romanticismo a destiempo, mucho fantasma entre falda y pantalón para que las cosas funcionen.

En México, las traiciones, como los cojones y los ovarios, vienen de a pares.

THE MOTHER Hobby! What can she do? She cooks and she cleans. You gotta have a house to clean. You gotta have children to cook for. These are the terrible years for a woman, the terrible years. THE GIRL You mustn't feel too harshly against her daughter-in-law. She also wants to have a house to clean and a family to cook for. (THE MOTHER darts a quick, sharp look at THE GIRL-then looks back

Simply being born female in our society is to grow up being told your worth as a person is tied to how slim and attractive you are. Even for those of us lucky enough to have evolved parents, the message is still driven home by the world at large.

Cooking was something women did to nourish and nurture their families, whereas for men it was largely something they did professionally to gain money and status.

Yeshe Tsogyal was a woman: there may be some people who believe that only men can attain enlightenment, but her life is proof of the opposite. In actual fact, the awakened state of mind is neither male nor female.

This is what you learned in college: A man desires the satisfaction of his desire; a woman desires the condition of desiring.

And even though I knew in my head there's nothing a man can do that a woman can't, I also knew in my heart we can't help doing it for different reasons. And just like a man will never understand exactly how a woman feels when she has a baby, or an orgasm, or the reasons why she'll fight so hard to be loved, a woman can't know in what way a man satisfies himself, what question he answers for himself, when he looks right at death.

Where's the give and take there? That's not a marriage. That's a male version of heaven.