Gertrude Stein Quotes

Men aren't the way they are because they want to drive women crazy; they've been trained to be that way for thousands of years. And that training makes it very difficult for men to be intimate.

The knowledge of the theory of logic has no tendency whatever to make men good reasoners.

If you're going to have a male-dominant system, to maintain the system, you have to teach men to dominate.

Men think that self-sacrifice is the most charming of all the cardinal virtues for women, and in order to keep it in healthy working order, they make opportunities for its illustration as often as possible. I would fain teach women that self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.

Girls are socialised in ways that are harmful to their sense of self - to reduce themselves, to cater to the egos of men, to think of their bodies as repositories of shame. As adult women, many struggle to overcome, to unlearn, much of that social conditioning.

Once boys' and men's challenges are clear, the question 'why now' quickly becomes 'why didn't we see this sooner?' The answer? Virtually every society that survived did so by socializing its sons to be disposable.

My favourite subjects at school were algebra and logic: making a big problem into something small.

Woman is the dominant sex. Men have to do all sorts of stuff to prove that they are worthy of woman's attention.

Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.

All men by nature desire knowledge.

No matter how many feminist tracts you read, you never forget what boys like.

The sum and substance of female education in America, as in England, is training women to consider marriage as the sole object in life, and to pretend that they do not think so.

And also I think particularly as a female, you're taught to be defensive your whole life. You're taught not to be aggressive.

The deductive method is the mode of using knowledge, and the inductive method the mode of acquiring it.

Women are reputed never to be disgusted. The sad fact is that they often are, but not with men; following the lead of men, they are most often disgusted with themselves.

Speaking as a biologist, I think women are less aggressive than men, and they play a larger role in the early education of the young and helping them overcome their genetic heirloom.

Human knowledge is dark and uncertain; philosophy is dark, astrology is dark, and geometry is dark.

We were discussing civilization and the fact that young men among the Greeks at that time were idiots and uneducated, so the men had emotional and friendly relationships with members of their own sex.

Men need to live and breathe women.

Show me a woman who doesn't feel guilty and I'll show you a man.

In fact, it was the women in our house who were in the saddle. If men are the gods, women are not only the presidents but all the ministers of the government.

For the things of this world cannot be made known without a knowledge of mathematics.

Yet consider now, whether women are not quite past sense and reason, when they want to rule over men.

Men honor what lies within the sphere of their knowledge, but do not realize how dependent they are on what lies beyond it.

Men should be disqualified for public office. Women should run the planet. They're better than us.