Quotes about Gender

My father made sure I was treated equally with my brothers.

I spent most of my career in business not saying the word 'woman.' Because if you say the word 'woman' in a business context, and often in a political context, the person on the other side of the table thinks you're about to sue them or ask for special treatment, right?

I've no time for broads who want to rule the world alone. Without men, who'd do up the zipper on the back of your dress?

To say 'radical feminist' is only a way of indicating that I believe the sexual caste system is a root of race and class and other divisions.

A woman should have every honorable motive to exertion which is enjoyed by man, to the full extent of her capacities and endowments. The case is too plain for argument. Nature has given woman the same powers, and subjected her to the same earth, breathes the same air, subsists on the same food, physical, moral, mental and spiritual. She has, therefore, an equal right with man, in all efforts to obtain and maintain a perfect existence.

The man is interested in the sowing of wheat in the field; the woman in making the bread.

Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.

I don't know why women want any of the things men have when one of the things that women have is men.

The idea that women were oppressed throughout history is an appalling theory.

Generally speaking, men are held in great esteem in all parts of the world, so why shouldn't women have their share? Soldiers and war heroes are honored and commemorated, explorers are granted immortal fame, martyrs are revered, but how many people look upon women too as soldiers?

All women have a perception much more developed than men. So all women somehow, being repressed for so many millennia, they ended up by developing this sixth sense and contemplation and love. And this is something that we have a hard time to accept as part of our society.

Men and women aren't the same. And they won't be the same. That doesn't mean that they can't be treated fairly.