Quotes about Gender
Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them.
- Margaret Atwood
The institution of marriage in all societies is a pattern within which the strains put by civilization on males and females alike must be resolved, a pattern within which men must learn, in return for a variety of elaborate rewards, new forms in which sexual spontaneity is still possible, and women must learn to discipline their receptivity to a thousand other considerations.
- Margaret Mead
Nothing spoils romance so much as a sense of humour in the woman.
- Oscar Wilde
The trouble with censors is that they worry if a girl has cleavage. They ought to worry if she hasn't any
- Marilyn Monroe
The fact is that I find more most men are more open, more generous, and much more stimulating than the majority of females I know.
- Marilyn Monroe
The trouble with censors is that they worry if a girl has cleavage. They ought to worry if she hasn't any.
- Marilyn Monroe
There is just no comparison between having a dinner date with a man and staying home playing canasta with the girls.
- Marilyn Monroe
Why did God make man before he made woman? Because he didn't want any advice on how to do it.
- Anonymous
For my brothers it was easy to think about the future. They can be anything they want. But for me it was hard and for that reason I wanted to become educated and empower myself with knowledge.
- Malala Yousafzai
The institution of marriage in all societies is a pattern within which the strains put by civilization on males and females alike must be resolved, a pattern within which men must learn, in return for a variety of elaborate rewards, new forms in which sexual spontaneity is still possible, and women must learn to discipline their receptivity to a thousand other considerations.
- Margaret Mead
Much of the ill-tempered railing against women that has characterized the popular writing of the last two years is a half-hearted attempt to find a way back to a more balanced relationship between our biological selves and the world we have built. So 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.
- Margaret Mead
Men always want to be a woman's first love. That is their clumsy vanity. We woman have a more subtle instinct about things. What we like is to be a man's last romance.
- Oscar Wilde