Quotes About Women And Men

#1. In this century, as in any other, men wore the comfortable, practical stuff, and the women wandered round expiring underneath over-decorated tea-cosies and with inadequate footwear. - Author: Jodi Taylor

#2. Men and women thought and did noble and mean things that would have been impossible to them before or after. A man cannot drink old Bourbon long and remain in his normal condition. We did not drink Bourbon, but blood. - Author: Rebecca Harding Davis

#3. What will you do with your self? Many men and women are still in darkness, trying to figure out the meaning and purpose of life. But no matter what you try to do with your self - whether you deny it, obliterate it, annihilate it, accept it or express it - believe me, it is still alive and kicking. - Author: K.P. Yohannan

#4. If we just allowed women and men more leeway in our culture and more acceptance, I think they would be able to make better compromises. - Author: Tamora Pierce

#5. Men, accustomed to think of men as possessing sex attributes and other things besides, are accustomed to think of women as having sex, and nothing else. - Author: Mary Corinna Putnam Jacobi

#6. Women's fashion is a subtle form of bondage. It's men's way of binding them. We put them in these tight, high-heeled shoes, we make them wear these tight clothes and we say they look sexy. But they're actually tied up. - Author: David Duchovny

#7. He disapproved, he didn't believe in girls drinking, he was full of the conventions of a generation older than himself. Of course one drank oneself, one fornicated, but one didn't lie with a friend's sister, and 'decent' girls were never squiffy. - Author: Graham Greene

#8. Men and women do make decisions wherever the Gospel is proclaimed; whether publicly or privately, some say yes, some say no, and some procrastinate. No one ever hears the Gospel proclaimed without making some kind of decision! - Author: Billy Graham

#9. Do not suppose that abuses are eliminated by destroying the object which is abused. Men can go wrong with wine and women. Shall we then prohibit and abolish women? - Author: Martin Luther

#10. As for me, I've been in love with women and men. I get how people fall in love with different kinds of people, but to fall in love with God: I didn't get that. - Author: Stacey D'Erasmo

#11. The glory of justice and the majesty of law are created not just by the Constitution - nor by the courts - nor by the officers of the law - nor by the lawyers - but by the men and women who constitute our society - who are the protectors of the law as they are themselves protected by the law. - Author: Robert Kennedy

#12. Men and women are different, but they are a complementary pair. Men are as they are because women are as they are. Women are as they are because men are as they are. They are a complementary pair. If they were not, they would not be as they are. - Author: Hugh Davies

#13. In the time that we're here today, more women and children will die violently in the Darfur region than in Iraq, Afghanistan, Palestine, Israel or Lebanon. So, after September 30, you won't need the UN - you will simply need men with shovels and bleached white linen and headstones. - Author: George Clooney

#14. See how it's a philosophy that's been handed to you by a bunch of men who were afraid. So instead, they overcompensate with hatred and violence and repression. - Author: Frederick Lenz

#15. My men and women are loyal and will fight to the bloody end," he said, his broad shoulders holding the weight of a staggering number of lives, "but I'm afraid I am about to lead them into certain death. - Author: Nalini Singh

#16. From an Islamic point of view, women are as responsible as men to help people finding their way to God (S.W.T), and to guide society in the right path with all the power they have. - Author: Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah

#17. Give us a world where half our homes are run by men, and half our institutions are run by women. I'm pretty sure that would be a better world. - Author: Sheryl Sandberg

#18. It has been my experience that women tell more intimate details to their friends than men do. Men may brag more, but women will talk the nitty-gritty and share the experience more. - Author: Laurell K. Hamilton

#19. I have given orders to my Death units to exterminate without mercy or pity men, women and children belonging to the Polish speaking race ... After all, who remembers today the extermination of the Armenians? - Author: Adolf Hitler

#20. Until it had been clearly explained that men were always and always partly wrong in all their ideas, life would be full of poison and secret bitterness. Men fight about their philosophies and religions, there is no certainty in them; but their contempt for women is flawless and unanimous. - Author: Dorothy Richardson

#21. when men and women are able to respect and accept their differences then love has a chance to blossom - Author: John Gray

#22. One of the things about equality is not just that you be treated equally to a man, but that you treat yourself equally to the way you treat a man. - Author: Marlo Thomas

#23. I have thought that men and women should never come together except in bed. There is the only place where their natural hatred of each other is not so apparent. - Author: John Steinbeck

#24. The only genuine elite is the elite of those men and women who gave their lives to justice and charity. - Author: Sargent Shriver

#25. Women want their men to be cops. They want you to punish them and tell them what the limits are. The only thing that women hate worse from a man than being slapped is when you get on your knees and say you're sorry. - Author: Mort Sahl

#26. I hope that no more groans of wounded men and women will ever go to the ear of the Great Spirit Chief above, and that all people may be one people. - Author: Chief Joseph

#27. I think that still, for the most part, even in 2010, the vast majority of museum shows and gallery shows and gallerists are pretty much dominated by men. So having a sense of what women are up to, for me, frankly, is very, very important. - Author: Carrie Mae Weems

#28. Look to the Lord and not to the world for your ideas and ideals about men and women. - Author: Sheri L. Dew

#29. Over this August district work period, like many of my colleagues, I spent a lot of time with the men and women in uniform from my home State. The 196th Field Artillery Brigade just got back from a year in Afghanistan. - Author: Zach Wamp

#30. A truly equal world would be one where women ran half our countries and companies and men ran half our homes. - Author: Sheryl Sandberg

#31. The purpose of the word "slut" is: controlling women through shame and humiliation. Women's bodies are always the ones that are being vied over for control - whether it's rape, reproductive rights, or violence against women, it's our bodies that are the battleground, not men's. - Author: Jessica Valenti

#32. In reading the biographies of very successful men and women, one theme frequently surfaces: such people have a strong bias for action. Those who achieve high levels of success in some areas of life tend to take a LOT more action than those who settle for average or below average results. - Author: Steve Pavlina

#33. It is true that I opposed quotas in employment, education, and other areas. I consider quotas, whether they favor blacks or whites, men or women, to be a new form of discrimination as bad as the old ones. - Author: Ronald Reagan

#34. What a great advantage a man can have over women, if he only knew what cold and calculating thoughts are going through her mind ... while her eyes are brimming with tears. - Author: Esther Vilar

#35. Men are not from Mars and women are not from Venus instead we are all people. Deal with it. - Author: Shahla Khan

#36. What's a feminist?" Julie asked.
"Someone who thinks women are fish," Barton replied. He was smiling at Lily. "And that men are bicycles, which makes us basically useless to anyone of the fish persuasion. But it does categorize us as creatures who exist solely for the purpose of being ridden. - Author: Dianne Dixon

#37. To the disgrace of men it is seen that there are women both more wise to judge what evil is expected, and more constant to bear it when it happens. - Author: Philip Sidney

#38. Art cannot change the world, but it can contribute to changing the consciousness and drives of the men and women who could change the world. - Author: Herbert Marcuse

#39. Money hasn't any value of its own; it represents the stored up energy of men and women and is really just someone's promise to pay a certain amount of that energy. - Author: Laura Ingalls Wilder

#40. Keep her downstairs a minute!' I breathed desperately. I don't know why; you don't want your agonies of soul witnessed by a woman. ("Nightmare") - Author: Cornell Woolrich

#41. But women had to overlook men's personality flaws, else nobody would ever wed and/or reproduce and the human race would come to an end. - Author: Loretta Chase

#42. Is there discrimination against women? Yes. There's no denying that the old boys' network is alive and well. But there's also discrimination against men. - Author: Warren Farrell

#43. What cruel mistakes are sometimes made by benevolent men and women in matters of business about which they can know nothing and think they know a great deal. - Author: Florence Nightingale

#44. Any fool knows men and women think differently at times, but the biggest difference is this. Men forget, but never forgive; women forgive, but never forget. - Author: Robert Jordan

#45. If capitalism is fair then unionism must be. If men and women have a right to capitalize their ideas and the resources of their country, then that implies the right of men and women to capitalize their labor. - Author: Frank Lloyd Wright

#46. Surround yourself with amazingly intelligent men and women. The people I work with not only are smarter than I am, possessing both intellectual and emotional intelligence, but also share my determination to succeed. I will not make an important decision without them. - Author: George Steinbrenner

#47. Everyone I know, men and women alike, would love to see the world changed so that boys and girls, men and women are valued equally for what we contribute, despite the differences in how our brains and bodies work. - Author: Cris Mazza

#48. I have lots of friends and, like me, they're not married. So my kids have lots of godparents - men and women, gay and straight. My loft is always filled with people helping me out with them and loving them. - Author: Edie Falco

#49. The only way to build a peaceful community is to build men and women who are lovers and makers of peace. - Author: John Andreas Widtsoe

#50. You'll marry your studies? Marry your books? You already have one degree but you want another. You'll marry your degrees? - Author: Chinelo Okparanta

#51. Why do we go to all this trouble' Parker asked. 'Men don't notice anyway.'
'Because what we wear affects how we feel, how we act, how we move. And that they do notice. Especially the move. Get dressed, smoke the eyes. You'll know you look good so you'll feel good. You'll have a better time. - Author: Nora Roberts

#52. The thought went through my mind that we should film ourselves in our sexual act, and project our frenzied copulation permanently onto the walls of the tea-room, as a lesson to wake up the boring people who drank tea here, and to show them what life was really all about. - Author: Fiona Thrust

#53. If women become too much like men, men lose purpose, meaning, and inspiration in life. - Author: John Gray

#54. Women are very clear and
transparent, anyone can read them,
they don't play 'hide and seek'
like men. #LIFE OF LOVE - Author: Santonu Kumar Dhar

#55. When we view ourselves through the lens of God's Word, we better understand God's love for us and the worth we have in His eyes. - Author: Elizabeth George

#56. It Begins with skepticism. The history of human folly, and our own susceptibility to illusions and fallacies, tell us that men and women are fallible. - Author: Steven Pinker

#57. Men tend to try to struggle to be more rational and reduce things to simplicity more and are more impatient with ambiguity than women are. - Author: John Crowley

#58. Sometimes the women much resent the men who call for war and have been known to rush upon them and beat them severely about the head and shoulders. - Author: Peter Matthiessen

#59. Why is it that men can be bastards and women must wear pearls and smile? - Author: Lynn Hecht Schafran

#60. I am convinced that the world is not a mere bog in which men and women trample themselves and die. Something magnificent is taking place here amidst the cruelties and tragedies, and the supreme challenge to intelligence is that of making the noblest and best in our curious heritage prevail. - Author: Charles A. Beard

#61. For centuries there has been a long and honorable tradition of women who have resisted and protested against men and their power. - Author: Dale Spender

#62. While one-half of the people of the United States are robbed of their inherent right of personal representation in this freestcountry on the face of the globe, it is idle for us to expect that the men who thus rob women will not rob each other as individuals, corporations and Government. - Author: Susan B. Anthony

#63. Whenever men and women straighten their backs up, they are going somewhere, because a man can't ride your back unless it is bent - Author: Martin Luther King Jr.

#64. Men and women are equally intelligent, but separate factors, such as the abilities to focus, be collaborative and take other people's views into account, allow you to be successful. - Author: Hanna Rosin

#65. Christianity fucked men and women up. Men feel guilty and women have misguided anger. The result, a weak male. Fucking controls on our behaviour. It's like a sickness. A control sickness. - Author: Robert Black

#66. It lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it. While it lies there, it needs no constitution, no law, no court to save it. - Author: Learned Hand

#67. Like waves, men and women exist only in motion, in change. Put them on the page, and you have already failed. And - Author: Brian Staveley

#68. Taking your clothes off in front of strangers is something of a hobby in Germany, among both men and women, especially in the former communist East, where it was one of the few freedoms allowed. - Author: Luke Harding

#69. The next decade cannot be a decade of confrontation and contention. It cannot be east vs. West. It cannot be men vs. women. It cannot be Islam vs. Christianity. That is what the enemies of dialogue want. - Author: Benazir Bhutto

#70. Fish in the sea are luminous so that they can recognise one another; might not men and women also exude some kind of speechless luminescence to those akin to them? - Author: Angela Carter

#71. Men don't understand anything about women and women understand nothing about men. And it's better that way. - Author: Vittorio Gassman

#72. More men and women were slaughtered in a couple of weeks of the terror of the atheistic French Revolution than in a century of the Inquisition. - Author: Michael Coren

#73. History is not a long series of centuries in which men did all the interesting/important things and women stayed home and twiddled their thumbs in between pushing out babies, making soup and dying in childbirth. - Author: Tansy Rayner Roberts

#74. Men cannot count, they do not know that two and two make four if women do not tell them so. - Author: Gertrude Stein

#75. You cannot put women and men on an equal footing. It is against nature. They were created differently. Their nature is different. She should not laugh loudly in front of all the world and should preserve her decency at all times. - Author: Recep Tayyip Erdogan

#76. ( ... ) gender bias influences how we view performance and typically raises our assessment of men while lowering our assessment of women. - Author: Sheryl Sandberg

#77. Men are capable of talking hours on end over only one subject; women do it and don't even require a subject. - Author: Curt Goetz

#78. Men are daft around women, incautious and boastful. - Author: Kristin Cashore

#79. In sex women are largely guided by their sensible bodies but men are driven crazy by their feverish minds. Men love to think and talk about sex; women enjoy it while it lasts, if they can, and have little interest in pre-match build-up or post-match analysis. - Author: Michael Foley

#80. In my youth, it was my good luck to have a few good teachers, men and women, who came into my head and lit a match. - Author: Yann Martel

#81. I believe if we had half our companies and half our countries run by women, and half our homes run by men, things would be better. We know our companies would be more productive. If you use the full talents of the population, you're more productive. We know our homes would be happier. - Author: Sheryl Sandberg

#82. The men in those old days of the seventeenth century, when in constant dread of attacks by Indians, always rose when the services were ended and left the house before the women and children, thus making sure the safe exit of the latter. - Author: Alice Morse Earle

#83. Suddenly Hal burst through the nearby trees and came to an abrupt halt when he saw her. "Cassie, are you hurt?"
He asked it so casually, as if he came upon women being held at sword point by nude men all the time. - Author: Donna Grant

#84. Above all else she mustn't think that using her body will help her attain her goal. Men use women who play seductively, and then they look down on them. - Author: Dacia Maraini

#85. Our world is fast succumbing to the activities of men and women who would stake the future of our species on beliefs that should not survive an elementary school education. - Author: Sam Harris

#86. There's a lot more emphasis placed on torsion and coil and leverage. Basically, the women are being taught very much along the same lines as the men. You don't have to consider strength as a factor so much. These girls are working out like fiends. It's a trend that's going to continue. - Author: David Leadbetter

#87. Putting women's traditional needs at the center of social planning is not reverse sexism. It's the best way to reverse the increasing economic vulnerability of men and women alike. - Author: Stephanie Coontz

#88. It struck me that the chief obstacle to marital contentment was this perpetual gulf between the well-founded, commendable pessimism of women and the sheer dumb animal optimism of men, the latter a force more than any other responsible for the lamentable state of the world. - Author: Michael Chabon

#89. We became acutely aware of the profound healing that is needed in our species. We knew with conviction that what we were doing, as women and men together, was confronting the cultural dynamics that are killing us all- killing women and men, killing our children, killing the planet. - Author: William Keepin

#90. There are black men who are madly in love with white women. God bless them, if that's what works for them. I just hope that we can strike a balance that portrays black folks and the black family in a light that's not extreme. Those are the types of characters that I find myself attracted to. - Author: Nia Long

#91. 1 in 3 Native women will be raped in her lifetime (and that figure is certainly higher as Native women often do not report rape); 86 percent of rapes and sexual assaults upon Native women are perpetrated by non-Native men; few are prosecuted. - Author: Louise Erdrich

#92. What's universal is the texture of our relationships. It's evolving. Times are changing with the women's movement. Men's roles are being redefined and, in some ways, they're confused. - Author: Terry McMillan

#93. The argument that 'boys will be boys' actually carries the profoundly anti-male implication that we should expect bad behavior from boys and men. The assumption is that they are somehow not capable of acting appropriately, or treating girls and women with respect. - Author: Jackson Katz

#94. We take men's obligation to earn money, and when they do it well, we blame them for having power and being oppressors. And when they don't do it all, women just don't marry men who are reading 'I'm Okay, You're Okay' in the unemployment line. - Author: Warren Farrell

#95. While the Second World War brought about untold misery and suffering, it was also a time when the world witnessed extraordinary bravery. Through the collective, heroic efforts of countless men and women, victory was claimed over tyranny and evil. - Author: Sam Kutesa

#96. There is no power in the world that can stop the forward march of free men and women when they are joined in the solidarity of human brotherhood. - Author: Walter Reuther

#97. Women KNOW, we just know. Even if we didn't know, we would know. Men won't get this, but women will..because we KNOW - Author: Karen Gibbs

#98. Prudishness is pretense of innocence without innocence. Women have to remain prudish as long as men are sentimental, dense, and evil enough to demand of them eternal innocence and lack of education. For innocence is the only thing which can ennoble lack of education. - Author: Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

#99. Allowing women the power to decide when and whether to have children is the only way to solve the 7 billion human load on this planet that threatens to destroy it. Women's equality is also men's survival. - Author: Gloria Steinem

#100. Aviation, this young modern giant, exemplifies the possible relationship of women and the creations of science. Although women have not taken full advantage of its use and benefits, air travel is as available to them as to men. - Author: Amelia Earhart