Quotes about Gender dynamics
Thus it shall befall Him, who to worth in women over-trusting, Lets her will rule: restraint she will not brook; And left to herself, if evil thence ensue She first his weak indulgence will accuse.
- 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
The irony here is that thanks to molecular archaeology—which includes the study of ancient DNA to trace human movement over time—we now know that men have been the stay-at-homes, and women have been the travelers. The rate of intercontinental migration for women is about eight times that for men.
- Gloria Steinem
Marriage has worked better for men than for women. The two happiest groups are married men and unmarried women.
- Gloria Steinem
Ah! The strength of women comes from the fact that psychology cannot explain us. Men can be analyzed, women...merely adored.
- Oscar Wilde
I think a woman can have all of the ideas and mental pictures. She can be a real planner and a motivator. But in the end, I think a woman does best when she responds to a man.
- Amy Grant
Women fear endangering men's approval so much, we don't even wait for them to say no. Or else we protect them, even if it means saying no to ourselves.
- Gloria Steinem
Rich men without convictions are more dangerous in modern society than poor women without chastity.
- George Bernard Shaw
And I tried to remember any case in the course of my reading where two women are represented as friends. (...) almost without exception they are shown in their relation to men. (...) [women in fiction were] not only seen by the other sex, but seen only in relation to the other sex. And how small a part of a woman's life is that
- Virginia Woolf
Women represent the triumph of matter over mind, just as men represent the triumph of mind over morals.
- Oscar Wilde
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.
- George Bernard Shaw
Men and women should stay apart, till their hearts grow gentle towards one another again.
- DH Lawrence