Quotes about Gender
Ah! The strength of women comes from the fact that psychology cannot explain us. Men can be analyzed, women...merely adored.
— Oscar Wilde
Three women walk into a pub and say, 'Hooray, we've colonised a male-dominated joke format'
— Bill Bailey
Why does Samuel Butler say, 'Wise men never say what they think of women'? Wise men never say anything else apparently.
— Virginia Woolf
Women can be vivacious. We are allowed more varieties of facial expression and gestures. Men must be rocklike.
— Gloria Steinem
Manliness means perfect manhood, as womanliness implies perfect womanhood. Manliness is the character of a man as he ought to be, as he was meant to be.
— James Freeman Clarke
Women must pay for everything. They do get more glory than men for comparable feats, but, they also get more notoriety when they crash.
— Amelia Earhart
Show me a woman who doesn't feel guilty and I'll show you a man.
— Erica Jong
When a man does exactly what a woman expects him to do she doesn't think much of him. One should always do what a woman doesn't expect, just as one should say what she doesn't understand.
— Oscar Wilde
Men and women are most alike at their most mature and soulful levels. Men and women are most different only at their most immature and merely physical levels.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
The average woman sees only the weak points in a strong man, and the good points in a weak one.
— Elbert Hubbard
Rich men without convictions are more dangerous in modern society than poor women without chastity.
— George Bernard Shaw
Until every good man is brave, we must expect to find many good women timid--too timid even to believe in the correctness of their own best promptings, when these would place them in a minority.
— George Eliot