Quotes about Gender

On the other hand, she was disproportionately indulgent towards the failings of men, and was often heard to say that these were natural.

Woman's dearest delight is to wound Man's self-conceit though Man's dearest delight is to gratify hers.

Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another but women are by nature enemies.

I cannot illustrate huge differences between male and female spiritualities except in their starting points, style and fascinations along the way. This is significant, however, and has huge pastoral implications: men must be challenged in the world of doing; women must be challenged in the world of relating.

I'd recommend for any little girl starting out to play with the boys as long as possible.

I have to tell you, my seven-year-old granddaughter said to my daughter, her mother, 'So what's the big deal about Grandma Maddy having been Secretary of State? Only girls are Secretaries of State.' Most of her lifetime, it's true. But at the time it really was a big deal.

If a guy is intimidated by a woman in leadership, he has real problems with his own concepts of masculinity. That's a harsh statement, but I believe it to be true.

Film is not a woman's medium. If you weren't the hottest kid in town, men stayed away from you.

I am normally the manly-ish girl on the planet.

There is still the feeling that women's writing is a lesser class of writing, that what goes on in the nursery or the bedroom is not as important as what goes on in the battlefield, that what women know about is a less category of knowledge.

Women defend themselves by attacking, just as they attack by sudden and strange surrenders.

Every woman becomes their mother. That's their tragedy. And no man becomes his. That's his tragedy.