Quotes about Gender
Man is the hunter; women are the game; those sleek and shining creatures of the chase. We hunt them for the beauty of their skins; they love us for it, and we ride them down.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
This image of herself as a not ordinary women, an image which was trembling now in his eyes, might suddenly disappear. Nothing more difficult to live up to than men's dreams.
— Anais Nin
[ Hollywood] is a patriarchy, headed by men and built for men.
— Ava DuVernay
Man might have identified fire, but women identified the way to enjoy with it.
— Candace Bushnell
According to a new study, most men would like women to occasionally pick up the check. The study also found that most women would occasionally like to be paid as much as men for doing the same job.
— Conan O'Brien
I grew up around lots of men - my father, my brothers, my uncles - so I wasn't intimidated by them.
— Dolly Parton
Men tend to gain wholeness by acquiring the qualities that are wrongly called feminine.
— Gloria Steinem
If you're going to have a male dominant system, to maintain the system, you have to teach men to dominate.
— Gloria Steinem
If men started taking care of children, the job will become more valuable.
— Gloria Steinem
We'll only really know we've succeeded when a mediocre woman does as well as a mediocre man. You shouldn't have to be extraordinary. That's the point!
— Gloria Steinem
Often if you don't speak up, whatever you thought was stupid to say some man would say and then everyone would say 'as he said'.
— Madeleine Albright
Woman: You certainly know the way to a man's heart. Mae West: Funny, too, 'cause I don't know how to cook.
— Mae West