Gender Identity

Men's minds are raised to the level of the women with whom they associate.

Only one man in a thousand is a leader of men, the other 999 follow women.

I see when men love women they give but a little of their lives, but women, when they love, give everything.

Woman was God's second mistake.

Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman.

Stupid as a man, say the women: cowardly as a woman, say the men. Stupidity in a woman is unwomanly.

Genteel women suppose that those things do not really exist about which it is impossible to talk in polite company.

Women are considered deep - why? Because one can never discover any bottom to them. Women are not even shallow.

Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.

A woman may very well form a friendship with a man but for this to endure it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.

Among such persons are those women who transform themselves into just that function of a man that is but weakly developed in him, and then become his purse, or his politics, or his social intercourse. Such beings maintain themselves best when they insert themselves in an alien organism; if they do not succeed they become vexed, irritated, and eat themselves up.

A real man wants two things: danger and play. Therefore he wants woman as the most dangerous plaything. Man shall be educated for war, and woman for the recreation of the warrior: all else is folly.

Men have hitherto treated women like birds which have strayed down to them from the heights; as something more delicate, more fragile, more savage, stranger, sweeter, soulful – but as something which has to be caged up so that it shall not fly away.

Of man there is little here: therefore do their women masculinize themselves. For only he who is man enough will save the woman in woman.

The happiness of man is: I will. The happiness of woman is: he wills. ‘Behold, just now the world became perfect!’—thus thinks every woman when she obeys out of entire love. And women must obey and find a depth for her surface. Surface is the disposition of woman: a mobile, stormy film over shallow water. Man’s disposition, however, is deep; his river roars in subterranean caves: woman feels his strength but does not comprehend it.

The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.

Anybody who believes that the way to a man’s heart is through his stomach flunked geography.

Women are made to be loved, not understood.

If we cannot now end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.

I’m not denyin’ the women are foolish: God Almighty made ’em to match the men.

If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.

To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow.

We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly.

Of all the evils for which man has made himself responsible, none is so degrading, so shocking or so brutal as his abuse of the better half of humanity; the female sex.