Quotes about Gender
People nod at the idea that when God is depicted only as a white man, only white men seem godly. They laugh at the idea that priests dressed in skirts try to trump women's birth-giving power by baptizing with imitation birth fluid, calling us reborn, and going women one better by promising everlasting life. Indeed, elaborate concepts of Heaven and Hell didn't seem to exist before patriarchy;
— Gloria Steinem
The power to make people laugh is also a power, so women have been kept out of comedy.
— Gloria Steinem
The New York Times op-ed page changed it to "Women Are Never Front-Runners.
— Gloria Steinem
Women's health is not a niche issue - it impacts everyone in some way. That is why a collective effort to improve awareness and understanding of menstrual hygiene is key to closing the gender health gap.
— Shabana Azmi
While we teach our daughters about self defense, we should teach the sons about being respectful as well. A society cannot function properly if only one gender is rising. It has to be in tandem. It cannot be unequal. There has to be balance for upliftment.
— Jennifer Winget
Women always worry about things that men forget; men always worry about things women remember.
— Albert Einstein
Men can have a huge turnover of sponsorship and still survive a lot better than the women. But the women's ratings are better, at least at home in the United States than in the men's tennis.
— Billie Jean King
Even today, in our progressive times, in most movies that come out, the men have to have biceps and the women have to be thin or something.
— Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Ah! The strength of women comes from the fact that psychology cannot explain us. Men can be analyzed, women...merely adored.
— Oscar Wilde
Three women walk into a pub and say, 'Hooray, we've colonised a male-dominated joke format'
— Bill Bailey
Why does Samuel Butler say, 'Wise men never say what they think of women'? Wise men never say anything else apparently.
— Virginia Woolf
Women can be vivacious. We are allowed more varieties of facial expression and gestures. Men must be rocklike.
— Gloria Steinem