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Patience ornaments the woman and proves the man.
— Tertullian
Men and women are most alike at their most mature and soulful levels. Men and women are most different only at their most immature and merely physical levels.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
This formation of man from soft clay, and of woman from a hard bone, also illustrated why man was so much more easily reconcilable than woman.
— Alfred Edersheim
When I think about what we now know about Donald Trump and what he's been doing for 30 years, he sure has spent a lot of time demeaning, degrading, insulting, and assaulting women.
— Hillary Clinton
Perhaps we could push beyond these legalistic gender roles if we spent less time worrying about "acting like men" and "acting like women," and more time acting like Jesus.
— Rachel Held Evans
Just because we all have wombs doesn't mean we have to be mothers, just like we all have vocal cords doesn't mean we're all opera singers.
— Gloria Steinem
If you're going to have a male dominant system, to maintain the system, you have to teach men to dominate.
— Gloria Steinem
The Bible's message for women doesn't depend on ideal circumstances, but applies fully to those who live in the brutal outskirts of society where poverty engulfs, education is nonexistent, women's bodies are ravaged, and lives are in constant peril simply because they are female.
— Carolyn Custis James
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
In a general way, anything that affects men is taken more seriously than anything that affects only women.
— Gloria Steinem
Nothing spoils romance so much as a sense of humour in the woman.
— Oscar Wilde
In fact, there is perhaps only one human being in a thousand who is passionately interested in his job for the job's sake. The difference is that if that one person in a thousand is a man, we say, simply, that he is passionately keen on his job; if she is a woman, we say she is a freak.
— Dorothy Sayers