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What women want as a class is irrelevant. I want to know about Aristotle. It is true that most women care nothing about him, and a great many male undergraduates turn pale and faint at the thought of him-but I, eccentric individual that I am, do want to know about Aristotle, and I submit that there is nothing in my shape or bodily functions which need prevent my knowing about him.
— Dorothy Sayers
In the past, there was active discrimination against women in science. That has now gone, and although there are residual effects, these are not enough to account for the small numbers of women, particularly in mathematics and physics.
— Stephen Hawking
Men weren't always happy for me. It was very challenging to watch a woman be so successful.
— Lady Gaga
Men are taught they are going to make a lot less in the fashion industry, so they don't bank their entire lives on it. They're very supportive. Women, on the other hand, are more competitive. They always assume I'm trans and say, 'How did they make clothing in your size?'
— Rain Dove
Therefore God's universal law gave to the man despotic power over his female in due awe, not from that right to part an hour, Smile she or lour.
— John Milton
When a man says he had pleasure with a woman he does not mean conversation.
— Samuel Johnson
When a man plays a woman in a dress, you're halfway there. It's inherently funny. When a woman plays a man, for whatever reason, it's not that instant kind of funny.
— Tina Fey
A wretched woman is more unfortunate than a wretched man.
— Victor Hugo
I am not convinced that men and women were ever meant to share the same house, though some people can do it beautifully.
— Alice Walker
I believe there is complete equality between men and women.
— Jimmy Carter
You must be aware that most men (and also not only a few women) are by nature not monogamous. This nature makes itself even more forceful when tradition and circumstance stand in an individual's way.
— Albert Einstein
You can never have 'equality' between two things that are not equal by definition. And so, for example, you can have equality among 'people', but not between 'men' and 'women'.
— Anthony Browne