Quotes about Gender
We make her bear and raise our children And then we leave her flat for being a fat old mother hen We tell her, home is the only place she should be Then we complain that she's too unworldly to be our friend
— John Lennon
God hath put no such difference between the Male and Female as man would make.
— Margaret Fell
Men are easy to get but hard to keep.
— Mae West
I've no time for broads who want to rule the world alone. Without men, who'd do up the zipper on the back of your dress?
— Mae West
so to add what wants in the female sex, the more to draw his love, and render me more equal, and perhaps, a thing not undesirable, sometime superior: for inferior, who is free?
— John Milton
If you convey to a woman that something ought to be done, there is always a dreadful danger that she will suddenly do it.
— GK Chesterton
Men should think twice before making widow hood woman's only path to power.
— Gloria Steinem
At my graduation, I thought we had to marry what we wished to become. Now you are becoming the men you once would have wished to marry.
— Gloria Steinem
Women are always saying,"We can do anything that men can do." But Men should be saying,"We can do anything that women can do.
— Gloria Steinem
In short, we would discover, as we should already, that logic is in the eye of the logician. (For instance, here's an idea for theorists and logicians: if women are supposed to be less rational and more emotional at the beginning of our menstrual cycle when the female hormone is at its lowest level, then why isn't it logical to say that, in those few days, women behave the most like the way men behave all month long? I leave further improvisation up to you.)
— Gloria Steinem
The driver, an old Irish woman, the only such cabbie I've ever seen, turned to us at a traffic light and said the immortal words, "Honey, if men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament!
— Gloria Steinem
Men embody adventure, women embody hearth and home, and that has been pretty much it. Even as a child, I noticed that Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz spent her entire time trying to get back home to Kansas, and Alice in Wonderland dreamed her long adventure, then woke up just in time for tea.
— Gloria Steinem