gender comparison Quotes

I marvel again at the nakedness of men's lives: the showers right out in the open, the body exposed for inspection and comparison, the public display of privates. What is it for? What purposes of reassurance does it serve? The flashing of a badge, look, everyone, all is in order, I belong here. Why don't women have to prove to one another that they are women? Some form of unbuttoning, some split-crotch routine, just as casual. A doglike sniffing.

I have short hair. It doesn't make me more unattractive than a woman or my sisters that have more longer hair and a bit lighter.

I don't wish to sound chauvinistic, but I feel the female body is beautiful to look at, more so than a male's.

In artillery exercises, women always win because they're more accurate.

Woman is stronger by virtue of her feelings than man by virtue of his power.

Being an ugly woman is like being a man. You're gonna have to work. Yep.

If by strength is meant moral power, then woman is immeasurably man's superior

They are more than men at the outset of their battles; at the end they are less than the women.

In a way, a man's body is more beautiful than a woman's.

Girls enjoy complex social interaction. Their verbal skills - and their delight in using them - develop earlier than boys'.

The perfect woman is a higher type of humanity than the perfect man, and also something much rarer. The natural history of animals furnishes grounds in support of this theory.

If women's choices - such as taking time off to rear children - make them less productive in the economy, does adolescent boys' behavior in school make them even less so, because they are missing the educational potential of their formative years?

Sometimes I think fashion is more of a conversation between men than it is for women.

I think the worst woman that ever existed would have made a man of very passable reputation -- they are all better than us and their faults such as they are must originate with ourselves.

I don't think women are better than men, I think men are a lot worse than women.

Man is more courageous, pugnacious, and energetic than woman, and has a more inventive genius. His brain is absolutely larger, but whether relatively to the larger size of his body, in comparison with that of woman, has not, I believe been fully ascertained. In woman the face is rounder; the jaws and the base of the skull smaller; the outlines of her body rounder, in parts more prominent; and her pelvis is broader than in man; but this latter character may perhaps be considered rather as a primary than a secondary sexual character. She comes to maturity at an earlier age than man.

Much of my work over the years has developed the premise that women's styles of friendship and conversation aren't inherently better than men's, simply different.

I have learnt that women are superior beings. They have a higher threshold of pain and are more understanding and accepting than men. Also, if you listen to them, you'll understand them better.

The only way to look at men is like they're electrons. They have all these charges sticking out, and they're always looking for a hole where they can put those charges.

I think dancing is a man's game and if he does it well he does it better than a woman.

You'll see. I'm as good as any boy. I'm better. - Kel

Once you know what women are like, men get kind of boring. I'm not trying to put them down, I mean I like them sometimes as people, but sexually they're dull.

There aren't many women now I'd like to see as President - but there are fewer men.

Contrary to general opinion, women are not so sentimental as men, but are much more hardheaded.

I didn't want to be good for a girl: I wanted to be as good, if not better than, all the guys.