Quotes about Gender

Few women would prefer an unemployed and rudderless man to an ambitious and successful one, all other things being even roughly equal; and few men would choose an obese, unattractive, and dull woman over a shapely, beautiful, sharp one.

It's like I'm managing to achieve all this success in spite of my affliction ... Would you ever put that in the headline for a male star?

This formation of man from soft clay, and of woman from a hard bone, also illustrated why man was so much more easily reconcilable than woman.

My father told us that our people had been slaves in the desert and because God had seen fit to set us free, none among us should ever own another man. It had been written that every man belonged to God and no one else. But did women belong to God or to the men of their family? They could not own property or businesses; only their husbands could have that honor.

The Olinka girls do not believe girls should be educated. When I asked a mother why she thought this, she said: A girl is nothing to herself; only to her husband can she become something. What can she become? I asked. Why, she said, the mother of his children. But I am not the mother of anybody's children, I said, and I am something.

The world is changing, I said. It is no longer a world just for boys and men.

What the mind doesn't understand, it worships or fears. I am speaking here of man's mind. The men both worshiped and feared the women.

Wives is like children. You have to let 'em know who got the upper hand. Nothing can do that better than a good sound beating.

Well how you spect to make her mind? Wives is like children. You have to let 'em know who got the upper hand. Nothing can do better than a good sound beating. (Walker 2000: 34)

Man may work from sun to sun,But woman's work is never done.

I was told that whistling wasn't ladylike, but I knew even then that women were simply not supposed to be that happy.

Pride was not made for men, nor furious anger for them that are born of a woman.