Quotes about Gender
As soon as you set foot on a yacht you belong to some man, not to yourself, and you die of boredom.
— Coco Chanel
Women think with their whole bodies and they see things as a whole more than men do.
— Dorothy Day
There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman.
— Margaret Fuller
Better be an old maid, a woman with herself as a husband, than the wife of a fool; and Solomon more than hints that all men are fools; and every wise man knows himself to be one.
— Herman Melville
You may try — but you can never imagine what it is to have a man's force of genius in you, and yet to suffer the slavery of being a girl.
— George Eliot
A man without a woman is like a pistol without a trigger; it is the woman who makes the man go off.
— Victor Hugo
In short, between men and women you want... Equality. Equality! You can't mean it. Man and woman are two different creatures. I said equality. I didn't say identity.
— Victor Hugo
We say that slavery has vanished from European civilization, but this is not true. Slavery still exists, but now it applies only to women and its name is prostitution.
— Victor Hugo
The faults of women, of children, of the feeble, the indigent, and the ignorant, are the fault of the husbands, the fathers, the masters, the strong, the rich, and the wise.
— Victor Hugo
Aren't we living in a world where heedless men only desire decapitated women?
— Milan Kundera
But the male lexicographers had somehow neglected to coin a word for the dislike of men. They were almost entirely men themselves, she thought, and had been unable to imagine a market for such a word.
— Carl Sagan
Women are supposed to be very calm generally, but women feel just as men feel.
— Kate Summerscale