Quotes about Gender
As for the American child's classic problem - too much mother, too little father - that would be cured by an equalization of parental responsibility.
— Gloria Steinem
I want my daughters to live in a world where there is equality and parity of pay.
— Joseph Fiennes
Finally Modernism, which denies and abolishes every difference, cannot rest until it has made woman man and man woman, and, putting every distinction on a common level, kills life by placing it under the ban of uniformity.
— Abraham Kuyper
Het modernisme rust niet voordat het van de vrouw een man en van de man een vrouw heeft gemaakt, en, alle onderscheid nivellerend, het leven doodt door het onder de ban van de eenvormigheid te leggen.
— Abraham Kuyper
Lonely men seek companionship. Lonely women sit at home and wait. They never meet.
— Abraham Lincoln
As women get more powerful, they get less likable. I see women holding themselves back because of this, but if we start talking about the success-likability penalty women face, then we can do something about it.
— Sheryl Sandberg
Worship very plainly opens up the healing of all of mankind. The struggle of gender, the struggle of race, the struggle of history, the struggle to find political liberation, the struggle of our own contradictions — nothing can be mended until we understand the symbol of Jesus' breaking of the bread and pouring of the wine.
— Ravi Zacharias
He could not make them shut-up; they were worse than women. They had not brains enough to be introverted and repressed.
— Joseph Heller
The theological denigration of women was a major revision of the assumptions that had informed the Christian movement from the gospels forward. Jesus himself modeled an egalitarian respect toward women: In Christ, 'there is neither male nor female.
— James Carroll
My observation is that women are merely waiting for their husbands to assume leadership.
— James Dobson
Men need to know that you don't need to become a woman to love others as God designed for the benefit of all.
— James MacDonald
What women want as a class is irrelevant. I want to know about Aristotle. It is true that most women care nothing about him, and a great many male undergraduates turn pale and faint at the thought of him-but I, eccentric individual that I am, do want to know about Aristotle, and I submit that there is nothing in my shape or bodily functions which need prevent my knowing about him.
— Dorothy Sayers