Quotes about Gender
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
It [feminism] is mixed up with a muddled idea that women are free when they serve their employers but slaves when they help their husbands.
— GK Chesterton
You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a generation.
— Brigham Young
The studio people want me to do "Good-bye Charlie" for the movies, but I'm not going to do it. I don't like the idea of playing a man in a woman's body - you know? It just doesn't seem feminine.
— Marilyn Monroe
It is ridiculous to take on a man's job just in order to be able to say that 'a woman has done it - yah!' The only decent reason for tackling a job is that it is your job and you want to do it.
— Dorothy Sayers
We know that the only way to achieve equality is if both men and women want to achieve equality. We also know that equality is not just the right thing to do for men, it is a good thing to do.
— Sheryl Sandberg
If we want to know what it means to be human, we look at Jesus. He does things we'd culturally consider feminine - like weep - and others our culture would consider masculine - like flip tables in the temple. But really all these things are just human. And since Jesus is God, these characteristics are also divine.
— Shane Claiborne
Jesus lives the challenge to our gender stereotypes and prejudices, but he is also wonderfully subversive in the ways he legitimates and empowers women.
— Shane Claiborne
In our cultural value system, we have divided up human traits between the sexes and consequently have denied each sex a part of its humanity.
— Shane Claiborne