Quotes about Gender

In the name of feminism, we denied some essential aspects of our authentic selves. While feminism should have been nothing if not a celebration of our own unique characteristics, we insisted that we had no unique characteristics... that gender differences were hogwash, and a feminine woman was nothing more than a plaything for men.

As a small child in England, I had this dream of going to Africa. We didn't have any money and I was a girl, so everyone except my mother laughed at it. When I left school, there was no money for me to go to university, so I went to secretarial college and got a job.

The extremists are afraid of books and pens, the power of education frightens them. they are afraid of women.

Women represent the triumph of matter over mind, just as men represent the triumph of mind over morals.

As long as she thinks of a man, nobody objects to a woman thinking.

Women upset everything. When you let them into your life, you find that the woman is driving at one thing and you're driving at another.

The women are very important too, we can't have a revolution that doesn't involve and liberate women. It's so subtle the way you're taught male superiority.

Perhaps we could push beyond these legalistic gender roles if we spent less time worrying about "acting like men" and "acting like women," and more time acting like Jesus.

Unless we include a job as part of every citizen's right to autonomy and personal fulfillment, women will continue to be vulnerable to someone else's idea of what need is.

There is no gown or garment that worse becomes a woman than when she will be wise.

Women are scolded both for being mothers and for not being mothers, for wanting to eat their cake and have it too, and for not wanting to eat their cake and have it too.

Women are always saying,"We can do anything that men cando." But Men should be saying,"We can do anything that women can do.