#Gender Quotes

“Haply a woman's voice may do some goodWhen articles too nicely urged be stood on.”

“A woman impudent and mannish grownIs not more loath'd than an effeminate man.”

“Ah me, how weak a thingThe heart of woman is!”

“Constant you are, But yet a woman; and for secrecy, No lady closer; for I well believe Thou wilt not utter what thou dost not know.”

“But indeed an old religious uncle of mine taught me to speak, who was in his youth an inland man; one that knew courtship too well, for there he fell in love. I have heard him read many lectures against it; and I thank God I am not a woman, to be touched with so many giddy offenses as he hath generally taxed their whole sex withal.”

“Women's weapons, water-drops.”

“England produces under favorable conditions of ease and culture the finest women in the world. And, as the men are affectionate and true-hearted, the women inspire and refine them.”

“O tiger's heart wrapped in a woman's hide!”

“I cannot be a man with wishing, therefore I will die a woman with grieving.”

“IAGO: She that was ever fair and never proud, Had tongue at will and yet was never loud, Never lack'd gold and yet went never gay, Fled from her wish and yet said 'Now I may,' She that being anger'd, her revenge being nigh, Bade her wrong stay and her displeasure fly, She that in wisdom never was so frail To change the cod's head for the salmon's tail; She that could think and ne'er disclose her mind, See suitors following and not look behind, She was a wight, if ever such wight were,-- DESDEMONA: To do what? IAGO: To suckle fools and chronicle small beer.”

“Women have a less accurate measure of time than men; there is a clock in Adam, none in Eve.”

“Men have marble, women waxen, minds.”

“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.”

“If there's a distinction between men and women, I don't pay attention to it. Honestly, I don't see it. I think all of us are part feminine and part masculine. I'm sure sociologists can come up with distinctions about what's different between men and women, but for every example you can give about what a woman does, you can come up with an opposite example of other women who don't do that. Those are more artificial distinctions, I think.”

“When they told me that by the year 2100 women would rule the world, my reply was 'Still?'”

“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.”

“Though men can cover crimes with bold, stern looks, poor women's faces are their own faults' books.”

“You know, women always could endure more than men. Not only physically, but mentally - did you ever get a peek at some of the husbands?”

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

“A woman's thought runs before her actions.”

“A woman can make a man feel older or younger than his years if she so chooses. Being a woman is a terribly difficult task since it consists principally in dealing with men. Women were made with a sense of humor so they could love men instead of laughing at them.”

“I'll bet you the time ain't far off when a woman won't know any more than a man.”

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

“Have you any notion how many books are written about women in the course of one year? Have you any notion how many are written by men? Are you aware that you are, perhaps, the most discussed animal in the universe?”

“A woman can do anything a man can do today and then some. She can even have a child without a man.”

“I was in a queer mood, thinking myself very old: but now I am a woman again - as I always am when I write.”

“War is not women's history.”

“If you let women have their way, you will generally get even with them in the end.”

“With twice his wits, she had to see things through his eyes -- one of the tragedies of married life.”

“Why are women... so much more interesting to men than men are to women?”

“A woman knows very well that, though a wit sends her his poems, praises her judgment, solicits her criticism, and drinks her tea, this by no means signifies that he respects her opinions, admires her understanding, or will refuse, though the rapier is denied him, to run through the body with his pen.”

“Thus Mr. Lawrence, Mr. Douglas and Mr. Joyce partly spoil their books for women readers by their display of self-conscious virility; and Mr. Hemingway, but much less violently, follows suit.”

“It would have been impossible, completely and entirely, for any woman to have written the plays of Shakespeare in the age of Shakespeare.”

“Women have sat indoors all these millions of years, so that by this time the very walls are permeated by their creative force, which has, indeed, so overcharged the capacity of bricks and mortar that it must needs harness itself to pens and brushes and business and politics.”

“If there's a distinction between men and women, I don't pay attention to it. Honestly, I don't see it. I think all of us are part feminine and part masculine.”

“The reason they're called the opposite sex is because every time you think you have your wife fooled - it's just the opposite!”

“All the reasonings of men are not worth one sentiment of women.”

“If we help an educated man's daughter to go to Cambridge are we not forcing her to think not about education but about war? - not how she can learn, but how she can fight in order that she might win the same advantages as her brothers?”

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

“If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure - the relationship so secret and private compared with relations with men. Why not write about it truthfully?”

“Why does Samuel Butler say, 'Wise men never say what they think of women'? Wise men never say anything else apparently.”

“Women are the best judges of anything we turn out. Their taste is very important. They are the theatergoers; they are the ones who drag the men in. If the women like it, to heck with the men.”

“And then, strange to say, the first symptom of true love in a young man is timidity; in a girl, it is boldness.”

“A wretched woman is more unfortunate than a wretched man.”

“An eminent teacher of girls said, "the idea of a girl's education, is, whatever qualifies them for going to Europe.”

“God created women only to tame men.”

“Very learned women are to be found, in the same manner as female warriors; but they are seldom or ever inventors.”

“It would be a thousand pities if women wrote like men, or lived like men, or looked like men, for if two sexes are quite inadequate, considering the vastness and variety of the world, how should we manage with one only? Ought not education to bring out and fortify the differences rather than the similarities?”

“And I will show of male and female that either is but the equal of the other.”

“war is a man's game ... the killing machine has a gender and it is male.”