Quotations about

Gender

The only time a woman really succeeds in changing a man is when he is a baby.

—Natalie Wood

Girls we love for what they are; young men for what they promise to be.

—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

If you have any doubts that we live in a society controlled by men, try reading down the index of contributors to a volume of quotations, looking for women's names.

—Elaine Gill

If a woman gets nervous, she'll eat or go shopping. A man will attack a country — it's a whole other way of thinking.

—Elayne Boosler

There are very few jobs that actually require a penis or vagina. All other jobs should be open to everybody.

—Florynce Kennedy

Our struggle today is not to have a female Einstein get appointed as an assistant professor. It is for a woman schlemiel to get as quickly promoted as a male schlemiel.

—Bella Abzug

A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty.

—Rudyard Kipling

Male writers get asked what they think, women what they feel.

—Eleanor Catton

A feminist is any woman who tells the truth about her life.

—Virginia Woolf