Quotes about Gender

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I am not an angel,' I asserted; 'and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself. Mr. Rochester, you must neither exp — Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
I do not think I ever opened a book in my life which had not something to say upon woman's inconstancy. Songs and prover — Jane Austen, Persuasion
A man is lucky if he is the first love of a woman. A woman is lucky if she is the last love of a man. — Charles Dickens
The difference between the love of a man and the love of a woman is that a man will always give reasons for loving, but — Fulton J. Sheen, Life Is Worth Living
the wounded child inside many males is a boy who, when he first spoke his truths, was silenced by paternal sadism, by a — bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions
To call woman the weaker sex is a libel; it is man's injustice to woman. If by strength is meant brute strength, then, i — Mahatma Gandhi
When you grow up as a girl, the world tells you the things that you are supposed to be: emotional, loving, beautiful, wa — Stevie Nicks
Teach her that the idea of 'gender roles' is absolute nonsense. Do not ever tell her that she should or should not do so — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Dear Ijeawele, or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions
Why is it that all cars are women?" he asked. "Because they're fussy and demanding," answered Zee. "Because if they were — Patricia Briggs, Silver Borne
A girl’s got to use what she’s given and I’m not going to make a guy drool the way a Britney video does. So I take it to — Lady Gaga
Dude, I don’t want to talk about Lacey’s prom shoes. And I’ll tell you why: I have this thing that makes me really unint — John Green, Paper Towns
Men are more interesting in books than they are in real life. — Mary Ann Shaffer, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
Women speak because they wish to speak, whereas a man speaks only when driven to speak by something outside himself-like — Jean Kerr
Do you really believe ... that everything historians tell us about men – or about women – is actually true? You ought to — Moderata Fonte, The Worth of Women: Wherein Is Clearly Revealed Their Nobility and Their Superiority to Men
Causing any damage or harm to one party in order to help another party is not justice, and likewise, attacking all femin — Christine de Pizan, The Book of the City of Ladies
Supposing that originally there was nothing but one creator, how could ordinary binary sexual relations come into being? — Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash
There's a major fault in Western society. It makes room for only one god, and in only one gender. There's no balance, no — Tomson Highway
Milton's Eve! Milton's Eve! ... Milton tried to see the first woman; but Cary, he saw her not ... I would beg to remind — Charlotte Brontë, Shirley
I earnestly wish to point out in what true dignity and human happiness consists. I wish to persuade women to endeavor to — Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
He shook his head. "The next time I hear a women going on about how neurotic men are, I'm going to remember this. You te — Susan Elizabeth Phillips, Kiss an Angel