Quotes on gender

“A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.”

“As long as she thinks of a man, nobody objects to a woman thinking.”

“What do you fear, lady? [Aragorn] asked. A cage, [Éowyn] said. To stay behind bars, until use and old age accept them, and all chance of doing great deeds is gone beyond recall or desire.”

“She's a woman, you're a dude. You're not to understand her. That's what she's after.... She doesn't want you to understand . She knows impossible. She just wants you to understand . Everything else is negotiable.”

“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 uninterested in prom shoes. It’s called a penis.”

“Supposing that originally there was nothing but one creator, how could ordinary binary sexual relations come into being?”

A woman who is not beautiful is like a man who is not handsome.

A woman who is not beautiful is like a man who is not handsome.

War is to man what maternity is to a woman. From a philosophical and doctrinal viewpoint, I do not believe in perpetual peace.

In the absence of men, women are forced to take on the role of men.

A woman's mind is cleaner than a man's: She changes it more often.

Men who are not afraid of women are often afraid of other men, especially their own passions.

Let’s be honest: women are still only really valued for two things—their looks and their role as mothers.

Our society has allowed men to get away with a lack of emotional intelligence by equating the expression of a full range of human emotion with femininity.

Women aren’t rehab centers for emotionally stunted man-babies.

One of the most insidious ways that toxic masculinity destroys men is that it strips us of the ability to express our emotions.

In drawing attention to the physical characteristics of women leaders, they can be dismissed as either too pretty or too ugly.

I am at once a pure, beautiful, genderless soul, but at the same time a gendered body full of flaws, sins, and wanting. This contradiction, the Both/And, is the Cross.

Couldn't a woman be happy doing a great many things, just as a man could?

Man looks on woman from his vantage point and reduces her to a being that is not for-itself but for-him.

I am not a feminist because I think women are better than men. I am a feminist because I think women are equal to men.

The patriarchy is an arrangement in which women are exploited, and men, in turn, are victimized by it.

I think that women are far more flexible than men, and this is one of the reasons why women make better leaders.

When women break the rules, they’re punished. When men break the rules, they’re applauded.

Sexuality is not just about bodies, it’s about power. And power is about relationships.

A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men.