Elizabeth Taylor Quotes

I want to know what the difference between the essence of a man and woman is.

a man is no example for a woman. It’s a different thing.

We know of no culture that has said, articulately, that there is no difference between men and women except in the way they contribute to the creation of the next generation.

The differences between the two sexes is one of the important conditions upon which we have built the many varieties of human culture that give human beings dignity and stature.

The distinction between male and female will never stop existing. We are not alike, and I wouldn't want to be.

People have foolishly mistaken equality for sameness. Equality of the genders means that both have equal value and worth, and one is not better than the other. But it doesn't mean we're all exactly the same. And many of us who still believe in gender separation say, 'Vive la difference!

I've come to learn that there is a real difference between men and women. It's genetic.

Boys and girls are not the same.

Men and women are different: we have different tendencies, skills, and behaviors. This should be accepted and fostered, not demonized. Because the end result is simply more effeminate men and more masculine women. Who wants that?

Sex is biological, but gender is mental.

I was asked to do some studies to see if I was different. And I do have more male testosterone than the average woman does. Whether that makes me more aggressive, I don't know.

I say that male and female are cast in the same mold; except for education and habits, the difference is not great.

There are no important differences between men and women, but the unimportant ones are sometimes very interesting.

The terms 'male' and 'female' must be understood as representing no mere primitive opposition of sex to sex; but as defining two worlds of differing quality, in either of which men and women may jointly move and live.

My stress on the truth in sexual stereotypes and on the biologic basis of sex differences is sure to cause controversy.

You know what the problem is? You can't put a woman into a man's role. A women's journey in life, I'm not speaking disrespectfully of women and their roles in life, but a woman's journey in life is very different from a man's. That doesn't mean a woman can't do a man's job, but it doesn't mean that a woman should do a man's job the way a man handles it. The things that men question themselves about in life are quite different from the things women question themselves about.

"After all," as a pretty girl once said to me, "women are a sex by themselves, so to speak."

What worries me is that the debate about gender differences still seems to polarize nature vs. nurture, with some in the social sciences and humanities wanting to assert that biology plays no role at all, apparently unaware of the scientific evidence to the contrary

I was really raised in a gender-neutral household. I always knew I was a girl, but it never occurred to me that there was a limitation.

I love the idea of there being two sexes, don't you?

The way the world sees women vs. men is a subject that really interests me.

Those that think my clothes are androgynous also still believe that women should look like Barbie dolls. That's precisely the problem, the deep-rooted assumptions about what is feminine.

I think the differences between men and women, it's kind of hard to define what those are and the challenges, what they are. I think there are challenging things for everybody.

The first thing that strikes the careless observer is that women are unlike men. They are 'the opposite sex' - (though why 'opposite' I do not know; what is the 'neighbouring sex'?).