Quotes about Gender

Patriarchy is impotent and qualitatively unable to solve even the most simple problems in the cosmos such as picking up their own socks or placing a carton of milk back in the refrigerator after drinking from it.

We were still at the age when girls are years older than guy, and the guys grow up by doing their best when the girls need them to.

In Spain, when we're successful, we're on the front page of the newspaper. Every newspaper. But when we lose, we're slated, the same as the men. That's the level the game is at.

A man leads with his mind while a woman leads with her heart.

As soon as you set foot on a yacht you belong to some man, not to yourself, and you die of boredom.

Women think with their whole bodies and they see things as a whole more than men do.

There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman.

Better be an old maid, a woman with herself as a husband, than the wife of a fool; and Solomon more than hints that all men are fools; and every wise man knows himself to be one.

You may try — but you can never imagine what it is to have a man's force of genius in you, and yet to suffer the slavery of being a girl.

I look like what we have taught society a lesbian looks like. I just do. I have the short hair. I got the muscles.

A part of me wants to sort of try and sound cool and feed this myth that I'm some sort of glamorous lothario, but I was raised by women - my mother and her mother and my aunts - and as a result, most of my friends have always been women.

In the case of maternal health care, you look at, well naturally, it's the mother who's the customer, who makes the decisions. But in truth, the mother in many areas, in certain parts of India, the mother has very little decision-making power at all. The real decision-maker is the mother-in-law.