Gender Quotes

We women, as some one says, love with our ears, just as you men love with your eyes.

A woman would never make a nuclear bomb. They would never make a weapon that kills - no, no. They'd make a weapon that makes you feel bad for a while.

A woman wouldn't make a bomb that kills you. A woman would make a bomb that makes you feel bad for a while. That's why there should be a woman President. There'd never be any wars, just every twenty-eight days there'd be very intense negotiations.

No real gentleman will tell the naked truth in the presence of ladies.

The Germans are like women, you can scarcely ever fathom their depths - they haven't any.

There is only one real tragedy in a woman's life. The fact that her past is always her lover, and her future invariably her husband.

Men use a new lesson or experience later on as a ploughshare or perhaps also as a weapon; women at once make it into an ornament.

Good-humoured, unaffected girls, will not do for a man who has been used to sensible women. They are two distinct orders of being.

It is a difference of opinion which does not admit of proof. We each begin probably with a little bias towards our own sex, and upon that bias build every circumstance in favour of it which has occurred within our own circle.

Every man has a secret ambition: To outsmart horses, fish and women.

When a man does exactly what a woman expects him to do she doesn't think much of him. One should always do what a woman doesn't expect, just as one should say what she doesn't understand.

One of life's terrible truths is that women like guys who seem to know what they're doing.

Ah! The strength of women comes from the fact that psychology cannot explain us. Men can be analyzed, women...merely adored.

Me never believe in marriage that muchmarriage is a trap to control me; woman is a coward. Man strong.

It is this delightful habit of journalizing which largely contributes to form the easy style of writing for which ladies are so generally celebrated. Every body allows that the talent of writing is particularly female. Nature might have done something, but I am sure it must be essentially assisted by the practice of keeping a journal.

Let men see what's coming to them, and women will get what's coming to them.

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

Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.

Are you visiting women? Do not forget your whip

The biggest changes in a women's nature are brought by love; in man, by ambition

Thus we have now for many centuries triumphed over nature to the extent of making certain secondary characteristics of the male (such as the beard) disagreeable to nearly all the females—and there is more in that than you might suppose.

My first day as a woman and I am already having hot flushes

The man loves danger and sport. That is why he loves woman, the most dangerous of all sports.

A woman does not want the truth; what is truth to women? From the beginning, nothing has been more alien, repugnant, and hostile to woman than the truth - her great art is the lie, her highest concern is mere appearance and beauty.

The fact is that I find more most men are more open, more generous, and much more stimulating than the majority of females I know.

Women can always put things in fewest words. Except when it's blowing up; and then they lengthens it out.

I am a man and you are a woman. I can't think of a better arrangement.

Indeed, I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.

To be a woman is something so strange, so confusing and so complicated that only a woman could put up with it.

What a misfortune to be a woman! And yet, the worst misfortune is not to understand what a misfortune it is.

I detest the masculine point of view. I am bored by his heroism, virtue, and honour. I think the best these men can do is not talk about themselves anymore.

War is not women's history.

Men have marble, women waxen, minds.

Let woman be a plaything, pure and fine, like a precious stone, illumined with the virtues of a world not yet come.

I definitely feel closer to the feminine side of the human being than I do the male - or the American idea of what a male is supposed to be. Just watch a beer commercial and you'll see what I mean.

Men always want to be a woman's first love. That is their clumsy vanity. We women have a more subtle instinct about things.

Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.

Tongue; well that's a wery good thing when it an't a woman.

Believe it or not, I don't collaborate with women, though my agent and editor are both females. For the most part, they do little editing on my characters.

I do not think I ever opened a book in my life which had not something to say upon woman's inconstancy. Songs and proverbs, all talk of woman's fickleness. But perhaps you will say, these were all written by men." "Perhaps I shall. Yes, yes, if you please, no reference to examples in books. Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything.

Hogamus, higamous Man is polygamous Higamus, hogamous Woman monogamous.

A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way.

Bravery is not man's monopoly.

In every form of womanly love something of motherly love also comes to light.

If non-violence is the Law of our being, the future is with Women.

Woman is more fitted than man to make explorations and take bolder action in ahimsa.

I thank God I am not a woman, to be touched in so many giddy offences as He hath generally taxed their whole their whole sex withal.

In every power, of which taste is the foundation, excellence is pretty fairly divided between the sexes.

Forget that I'm a woman. Forget the accusations that I am a Right Winger demanding privilege - I had precious little privilege in my early years.

Happiness is peace after strife, the overcoming of difficulties, the feeling of security and well-being. The only really happy folk are married women and single men.

If she [woman] is weak in striking, she is strong in suffering.

The theory that music has a depraving effect on morals has now been abandoned to the old women of both sexes.

Being a woman is hard work.

Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.

Generally speaking, the greater a woman's beauty, the greater her modesty.

For the woman, the man is a means: the end is always the child.

A man is a poor creature compared to a woman.

Indeed, men never know how to love. nothing satisfies them. All they know is to dream, to imagine new duties, to look for new countries and new homes. While we women, we know that we must hasten to love, to share the same bed, hold hands, and fear absence. When we women love, we dream of nothing.

Let husbands know Their wives have sense like them. They see, and smell, And have their palates both for sweet and sour, As husbands have.

To be born woman is to know - although they do not speak of it at school - women must labor to be beautiful.