Selected gender quotes

1. The portions of a woman which appeal to man's depravity Are constructed with considerable care.

2. Women's sexy underwear is a minor but significant growth industry of late-twentieth-century Britain in the twilight of capitalism.

3. Conservatives have a problem with women. For that matter, all men do.

4. The truth is most women are weak, be they mortal or immortal. But when they are strong, they are absolutely unpredictable.

5. There are words which a man cannot resist from a woman, even though he knows them to be false.

6. A man is free to go up as high as he can reach up to; but I, with all my style and pep, can't get a man my equal because a girl is always judged by her mother.

7. It's well-known that men and women are different but it keeps being re-discovered with great excitement.

8. There are no important differences between men and women, but the unimportant ones are sometimes very interesting.

9. Women can do anything men can do, but often have more sense than even to be interested.

10. When women are encouraged to be competitive, too many of them become disagreeable.

11. Marriage is for women the commonest mode of livelihood, and the total amount of undesired sex endured by women is probably greater in marriage than in prostitution.

12. Aristotle could have avoided the mistake of thinking that women have fewer teeth than men, by the simple device of asking Mrs. Aristotle to keep her mouth open while he counted.

13. Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives' mouths.

14. I've always liked men better than women.

15. Men become much more attractive when they start looking older. But it doesn't do much for women, though we do have an advantage: make-up.

16. Strong women only marry weak men.

17. My idea of superwoman is someone who scrubs her own floors.

18. You have no idea what a long-legged gal can do without doing anything.

19. Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.

20. There is no kind of harassment that a man may not inflict on a woman with impunity in civilized societies.

21. You know, whenever women make imaginary female kingdoms in literature, they are always very permissive, to use the jargon word, and easy and generous and self-indulgent, like the relationships between women when there are no men around. They make each other presents, and they have little feasts, and nobody punishes anyone else. This is the female way of going along when there are no men about or when men are not in the ascendant.

22. The most dangerous lovers women have are men of Cordis's feminine temperament. Such men, by the delicacy and sensitiveness of their own organizations, read women as easily and accurately as women read each other. They are alert to detect and interpret those smallest trifles in tone, expression, and bearing, which betray the real mood far more unmistakably than more obvious signs.

23. Badly off as the men...were in your day, they were more fortunate than their mothers and wives.

24. Woman's inaptitude for reasoning has not prevented her from arriving at truth; nor has man's ability to reason prevented him from floundering in absurdity.

25. I believe in the Motherhood of God.

26. Take back the night? How can women take back the night when they've never had it?

27. Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic.

28. Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.

29. Every man over forty is a scoundrel.

30. I knew a transsexual guy whose only ambition is to eat, drink, and be Mary.

31. I expect that Woman will be the last thing civilized by Man.

32. Ladies there is no neutral position for us to assume.

33. Why did the little girls grow crippled While the little boys grow strong The boys allowed to come of age The girls just came along The girls were told sing harmonies The boys could all sing songs That's why little girls grew crippled While little boys grew strong.

34. Why were the little girls all frightened To be just what they are The boys were told to ask themselves How high how far The girls were told to reach the shelves While the boys were reaching stars That's why little girls were frightened To be just what they are.

35. There is very little difference between men and women in space.

36. The most casual examination will reveal the fact that all the jokes about the horrible results of masculine cooking and sewing are written by men. It is all part of a great scheme of sex propaganda.

37. Women have always been the primary victims of war. Women lose their husbands, their fathers, their sons in combat. Women often have to flee from the only homes they have ever known. Women are often the refugees from conflict and sometimes, more frequently in today's warfare, victims. Women are often left with the responsibility, alone, of raising the children.

38. A widow of doubtful age will marry almost any sort of a white man.

39. It is possible, reading standard histories, to forget half the population of the country. The explorers were men, the landholders and merchants men, the political leaders men, the military figures men. The very invisibility of women, the overlooking of women, is a sign of their submerged status.

40. You forget that the kingdom of heaven suffers violence: and the kingdom of heaven is like a woman.

41. 'Six hours sleep are enough for a man, seven for a woman, and eight for a fool.'

42. I don't mind praying to the eternal Father, but I must be the only man in the country afflicted with an eternal mother.

43. Words are women, deeds are men

44. I can understand stupid guys not understanding politics, but the penis? That is just a base piece of knowledge that every man should have. I don't give a crap if you don't know what's going on with the ozone, or the Clinton administration, or the Asian economy, but you gotta know the difference between the head of your penis and the foreskin of your penis. You just should!

45. 'I ask the media to concentrate on positive things rather than just doing the rounds on rape, incest, molestation on women.'

46. To men a man is but a mind. Who cares What face he carries or what form he wears? But woman's body is the woman. O, Stay thou, my sweetheart, and do never go, But heed the warning words the sage hath said: A woman absent is a woman dead.

47. Helpmate, n. A wife, or bitter half.

48. Marriage, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two.

49. Woman would be more charming if one could fall into her arms without falling into her hands.

50. The fact that boys are allowed to exist at all is evidence of a remarkable Christian forbearance among men.

51. Women complain about sex more often than men. Their gripes fall into two major categories: (1) Not enough. (2) Too much.

52. If there are, let's say, 20 astronauts, there may be two women among those 20 astronauts. If there are 20 FBI guys, there's one woman and the rest are men. So when somebody writes a script about life, usually the leading role will be the man, because mostly what women do is at home taking care of the children...That's the most important job there is on Earth. And why shouldn't women have it since they are the better of the two sexes?

53. Only a male intellect clouded by the sexual drive could call the stunted, narrow-shouldered, broad-hipped and short-legged sex the fair sex.

54. Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies.

55. Dissimulation is innate in woman, and almost as much a quality of the stupid as of the clever.

56. There are 80,000 prostitutes in London alone and what are they, if not bloody sacrifices on the altar of monogamy?

57. Die liebenswurdigste der Frauen wird immer auch die schonste sein.

58. Heiraten und Nahnadeln mussen die Frauenzimmer einfadeln.

59. Kluge Sanftmut ist des Weibes unwiderstehlichste Waffe.

60. I have always thought that every woman should marry, and no man.

61. [Caspian]'You can say what you like, Reepicheep. There are some things no man can face.' 'It is, then, my good fortune not to be a man,' replied Reepicheep with a very stiff bow. (ch. 12)

62. Perhaps we can bring the day when children will learn from their earliest days that being fully man and fully woman means to give one's life to the liberation of the brother who suffers. It is up to each one of us. It won't happen unless we decide to use our lives to show the way.

63. The movie is not that violent. There are ideas in the movie that are scary, but the film isn't about violence, the glorification of violence or the embracing of violence. In the movie, violence is a metaphor for feeling. It's a film about the problems or requirements involved with being masculine in today's society.

64. After accepting a gift from a Kenyan citizen he replied, 'You are a woman, aren't you?'[1]

65. In 1966 he remarked that 'British women can't cook.'[1]

66. If you see a man opening a car door for a woman, it means one of two things: it's either a new woman or a new car!

67. I'm an executive transvestite.

68. If women fall over wearing heels, that's embarrassing; but if a bloke falls over wearing heels, then you have to kill yourself! End of your life!

69. He's quite confident for a bloke in a dress!

70. I am two lesbians in a man's body.

71. Some people say 'Oh, I wish I was a transvestite!' and I say, 'Well, if you work hard at school, maybe one day, you know: After your exams:'

72. It didn't seem to work, cause no matter how much make up I wore people just kept saying, 'Yes, Sir!, Would you like tea with that Sir?!' 'Yes, I would like tea, why don't you put it on my breasts?' 'Certainly, tea for this man's breasts! Anything else, sir?' 'No, just fuck off'

73. He (Hitler) is thinking about the peasant girls. When they stand in the fields and bend down at their work so that you can see their behinds, that's what he likes, especially when they've got big round ones. That's Hitler's sex life. What a man.

74. De toutes les passions violentes, celle qui sied le moins mal aux femmes, c'est l'amour.

75. Zweierlei will der echte Mann: Gefahr und Spiel. Deshalb will er das Weib als das gefahrlichste Spielzeug.

76. Women are considered profound. Why? Because we never fathom their depths. But women aren't even shallow.

77. God created woman. And boredom did indeed cease from that moment - but many other things ceased as well! Woman was God's second mistake.

78. Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent. (Beyond Good and Evil)

79. A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.

80. Women have been charged with deviousness and duplicity since the dawn of civilization so they have never been able to pretend that their masks were anything but masks. It is a slender case but perhaps it does mean that women have always been in closer contact with reality than men: it would seem to be the just recompense for being deprived of idealism.

81. The element of heroic maleness had always been present in the concept of the artist as one who rides the winged horse above the clouds beyond the sight of lesser men, a concept seldom applied to those who worked with colours until the nineteenth century. When the inevitable question is asked, 'Why are there no great women artists?' it is this dimension of art that is implied. The askers know little of art, but they know the seven wonders of the painting world.

82. The most unpardonable privilege that men enjoy is their magnanimity.

83. The few men who do a hand's turn around the house expect gratitude and recognition, so sure are they that, thought it is their dirt, it is not their job.

84. How you answer the question, whether individuals should be persuaded to live their whole lives in a state of chemical dependency, first upon contraceptive steroids and then on replacement therapy, depends upon your regard for the autonomy of the individual. If men would not live their lives this way, why should women?

85. She enjoys what most women do not enjoy, and therefore it's valuable, which is going out and doing battle with men.

86. If women dressed for men, the stores wouldn't sell much -- just an occasional sun visor.

87. Behind every successful man is a woman, behind her is his wife.

88. Only one man in a thousand is a leader of men -- the other 999 follow women.

89. Every woman is the gift of a world to me.

90. The woman who is known only through a man is known wrong.

91. The superiority of one man's opinion over another's is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman.

92. No one will ever win the battle of the sexes; there's too much fraternizing with the enemy.

93. Women bear Crosses better than Men do, but bear Surprizes - worse.

94. Somebody has said that woman's place is in the wrong. That's fine. What the wrong needs is a woman's presence and a woman's touch. She is far better equipped than men to set it right.

95. I hate women because they always know where things are.

96. I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere.

97. No male can beat a female in the long run because they have it over us in sheer, damn longevity.

98. Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more.

99. Never allow a nervous female to have access to a pistol, no matter what you're wearing.

100. Single Women have a dreadful propensity for being poor-which is one very strong argument in favour of Matrimony...