Quotes about Gender
A man without a woman is like a pistol without a trigger; it is the woman who makes the man go off.
- Victor Hugo
In short, between men and women you want... Equality. Equality! You can't mean it. Man and woman are two different creatures. I said equality. I didn't say identity.
- Victor Hugo
We say that slavery has vanished from European civilization, but this is not true. Slavery still exists, but now it applies only to women and its name is prostitution.
- Victor Hugo
The faults of women, of children, of the feeble, the indigent, and the ignorant, are the fault of the husbands, the fathers, the masters, the strong, the rich, and the wise.
- Victor Hugo
Aren't we living in a world where heedless men only desire decapitated women?
- Milan Kundera
All men are a disappointment. No matter what anyone says.
- Candace Bushnell
It was ironic, but when you scratched the surface, most successful men were working for one thing only--to retire--and the sooner the better. Whereas women were the complete opposite. She had never heard a woman say she was working so she could retire to a desert island or to live on a boat. It was probably, she thought, because most women didn't think they deserved to do nothing.
- Candace Bushnell
So much of being a woman is telling lies
- Candace Bushnell
Why do magazine do this to women? Miranda complains now, glaring at Vogue. It's all about creating insecurity. Trying to make women feel like they're not good enough. And when women don't feel like they're good enough guess what? What? I (Carrie) ask, picking up the grocery bad, Men win. That's how they keen us down she concludes
- Candace Bushnell
But the male lexicographers had somehow neglected to coin a word for the dislike of men. They were almost entirely men themselves, she thought, and had been unable to imagine a market for such a word.
- Carl Sagan
he was able to explain to the clergy that 'Women are: "Satan's bait, poison for men's souls".
- Terry Jones
Women are supposed to be very calm generally, but women feel just as men feel.
- Kate Summerscale