Gender Quotations

This category contains gender-related quotations.

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"Men make the mistake of thinking that because women can't see the sense in violence, they must be passive creatures. It's just not true. In one important way, at least, men are the passive sex. Given a choice, they will always opt for the status quo. They hate change of any kind, and they fight against it constantly. On the other hand, what women want is stability, which when you stop to think about it is a very different animal."

-Eric Lustbader

"Man thinks woman profound--why? Because he can never fathom her depths. Woman is not even shallow."

-Friedrich Nietzsche

"When woman possesses masculine virtues, she is enough to make you run away. When she possesses no masculine virtues, she herself runs away."

-Friedrich Nietzsche

"The two sexes mutually corrupt and improve each other."

-Mary Wollstonecraft

"Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent."

-Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

"Women do not find it difficult nowadays to behave like men, but they often find it extremely difficult to behave like gentlemen."

-Sir Compton Mackenzie