901 Quotes About Gender

My own sex, I hope, will excuse me, if I treat them like rational creatures, instead of flattering their fascinating graces, and viewing them as if they were in a state of perpetual childhood, unable to stand alone.

The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.

I am not an angel," I asserted; "and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself.

I think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men, they are far superior and always have been.

If men could see us as we really are, they would be a little amazed; but the cleverest, the acutest men are often under an illusion about women: they do not read them in a true light: they misapprehend them, both for good and evil: their good woman is a queer thing, half doll, half angel; their bad woman almost always a fiend.

Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation.

[I]f we revert to history, we shall find that the women who have distinguished themselves have neither been the most beautiful nor the most gentle of their sex.

It is vain to expect virtue from women till they are in some degree independent of men.

There are certain phrases potent to make my blood boil -- improper influence! What old woman's cackle is that?""Are you a young lady?""I am a thousand times better: I am an honest woman, and as such I will be treated.