Gender Perspectives Quotes

Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.

I think women should have insight as to how men think. Just like men should have insight into how women think.

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

That's proof right there that men and women are on different levels because men can watch two women together and that's a turn-on. It doesn't work the same way for us, does it, ladies? No, uh-uh - it doesn't work the same. You ask any woman in here her sexual fantasy, and I will bet you a million dollars that it's NOT to go home and catch your man bent over with some big, burly guy standing behind him.

SUSTAINABLE PEACE IS POSSIBLE ONLY WITH WOMEN'S FULL PARTICIPATION, their perspectives, their leadership, their daily, equal presence wherever we seek to make and keep the peace.

When men and women think, the first step to progress is taken.

We're not hard-core feminists. We like men and we like to have fun with them. But we also want men to think about females in different ways.

Girls like to see girls dressed up like princesses occasionally. Guys don”t really care, they just want to get the clothes off.

For a woman the objective is often a committed relationship also known as the destination. For a men the road trip on the way to the destination is often the most fun.

I think women should always be respected. I'm not going to stand on the corner with a picket sign, but I'm going to support my ladies all the way. But I also understand the views of men as well.

From my experience, I can affirm that I don't really know how the women see the world like, but it seems to be quite different from how men do.

Man has his will, but woman has her way.

True, man does not know woman. But neither does woman.

My mother says men are different from us. She says we want to be in love, but only with the one we want; a man needs to be in love, but he will love the first woman to tie a string to his heart. - Egwene, speaking to Elayne

So far there has been little discussion among gender scholars about the need to engage with skeptics. They tend to view skeptics and dissenters as cranks.

With equality of experience and of general faculties, a woman usually sees much more than a man of what is immediately before her.

Men think if they're getting laid, everything is fine. Women think if they feel good, everything is fine. Neither turns out to be a very good indicator.

It is in the interests of both sexes to hear the other sex's experience of powerlessness.

One of the things we learn in movies directed by men is what the 'fantasy woman' is. What we learn in movies directed by women is what real women are about. I don't think that men see things wrong and women right, just that we do see things differently.

I like working with actresses, and I like women a lot, not for obvious reasons, but just in that that there's so much about what they bring to the scene that keeps it so interesting. Their instincts are so different, and they never explain them to you.

Her own body was such a familiar and unremarkable thing to her that she was puzzled by the convulsive ecstasy men could take from it, by the intense and amusing need they had merely to touch it, to reach out urgently and press it, squeeze it, pinch it, rub it. She did not understand Yossarian's lust; but she was willing to take is word for it.

I fear only that which I love, says man, according to Montaigne. Woman replies: I love only that which I fear.

Men use a new lesson or experience later on as a ploughshare or perhaps also as a weapon; women at once make it into an ornament.

We should be cultivating our female workers. The truth of the matter is that women just see problems and solutions differently, and that's valuable.

With women, you always have to make an educated decision to figure out what they're thinking. It's not one that's necessarily sympathetic, always. Of course, we're all human beings, but the gender thing is big thing. And a great thing.