Quotes about Gender

Before feminism, work was largely defined as what men did or would do. Thus, a working woman was someone who labored outside the home for money, masculine-style.

I'm a pragmatist. I think, as a woman, you have to be more careful. You have to be more communal, you have to say yes to more things than men, you have to worry about things that men don't have to worry about. But once we get enough women into leadership, we can break stereotypes down. If you lead, you get to decide.

There are a lot of funny women in my life. I never understand those movies where there's eight funny guys and two women who don't have any opinion or humour.

Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes.

Women represent the triumph of matter over mind, just as men represent the triumph of mind over morals.

She began to complain. Women defend themselves by attacking, just as they attack by sudden and strange surrenders.

Girls never marry the men they flirt with. Girls don't think it right.

Men have educated us. But not explained you. Describe us as a sex, was her challenge. Sphinxes without secrets.

But, to the philosopher, my dear Gerald, women represent the triumph of matter over mind - just as men represent the triumph of mind over morals.

Gwendolen.  How absurd to talk of the equality of the sexes!  Where questions of self-sacrifice are concerned, men are infinitely beyond us.

The only way to behave to a woman is to make love to her, if she is pretty, and to some one else, if she is plain.

If a woman wants to hold a man she has merely to appeal to what is worst in him.