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Men and women137 quotes
Heav'n has no Rage, like Love to Hatred turn'd,
Nor Hell a Fury, like a Woman scorn'd. — William Congreve · 1697I can't get no satisfaction,
I can't get no girl reaction. — The Rolling Stones · 1965It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife. — Jane Austen · 1813Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more,
Men were deceivers ever,
One foot in sea and one on shore,
To one thing constant never. — William Shakespeare · 1600Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less. — Susan B. Anthony · 1868The great question that has never been answered…is what does a woman want? — Sigmund Freud · 1925All 137 quotes →Gender relations29 quotes
Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious: both are disappointed. — Oscar Wilde · 1890Women always ready to settle down. Shit, a woman goes on four good dates, she's like "Why are we bullshittin'? What are you waiting for?" Men—never ready to settle down. Men don't settle down. We surrender. — Chris Rock · 1996I hate men, but I’m not a lesbian. — Elaine Benes · 1992I said "biiiitch"… — Craig · 2012These impossible women! How they do get around us! The poet was right: can't live with them, or without them! — Aristophanes · 411 BCNow, we are becoming the men we wanted to marry. — Gloria Steinem · 1982All 29 quotes →Women23 quotes
Heav'n has no Rage, like Love to Hatred turn'd,
Nor Hell a Fury, like a Woman scorn'd. — William Congreve · 1697God created woman. And boredom did indeed cease from that moment-but many other things ceased as well! Woman was God's second mistake. — Friedrich Nietzsche · 1895These impossible women! How they do get around us! The poet was right: can't live with them, or without them! — Aristophanes · 411 BCNow, we are becoming the men we wanted to marry. — Gloria Steinem · 1982And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall on Adam, and he slept; and He took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh in its place. Then the rib which the Lord God had taken from man He made into a woman, and He brought her to the man. — Genesis 2:21-22 · 1405 BCIn the grand design, women were drawn from a different set of blueprints. — Dale Cooper · 1990All 23 quotes →Marriage14 quotes
If you like it, then you shoulda put a ring on it. — Beyonce · 2008In the true marriage relation, the independence of the husband and wife is equal, the dependence mutual and their obligations reciprocal. — Lucretia Mott · 1880Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious: both are disappointed. — Oscar Wilde · 1890Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh. — Genesis 2:24 · 1405 BCNo man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century. — Mark Twain · 1894Even if a husband lives two hundred fucking years, he'll never be able to discover his wife's real nature. I mean, I might be able to comprehend the universe, but, I'll never discover the truth about you. Never. — Paul · 1972All 14 quotes →Oppression of women12 quotes
Woman's degradation is in man's idea of his sexual rights. Our religion, laws, customers, are all founded on the belief that woman was made for man. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton · 1860In the new Code of Laws which I suppose it will be necessary for you to make I desire you would Remember the Ladies, and be more generous and favourable to them than your ancestors. Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands. Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could. — Abigail Adams · 1776The labour of women in the house, certainly enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman · 1898The worker is the slave of capitalist society, the female worker is the slave of that slave. — James Connolly · 1915The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself. — Virginia Woolf · 1929If all men are born free, how is it that all women are born slaves? — Mary Astell · 1706All 12 quotes →Relationships10 quotes
Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more,
Men were deceivers ever,
One foot in sea and one on shore,
To one thing constant never. — William Shakespeare · 1600Women always ready to settle down. Shit, a woman goes on four good dates, she's like "Why are we bullshittin'? What are you waiting for?" Men—never ready to settle down. Men don't settle down. We surrender. — Chris Rock · 1996When two people take each other on terms of perfect equality, without the desire of one to control the other, to make the other subservient, it is a beautiful thing. It is the truest and highest state of life. — Susan B. Anthony · 1896The Lord God said, "It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him." — Genesis 2:18 · 1405 BCI said "biiiitch"… — Craig · 2012Jerry, this woman hates me so much, I’m starting to like her. — George Costanza · 1993All 10 quotes →Love6 quotes
Flesh of flesh,
Bone of my bone thou art, and from thy state
Mine never shall be parted, bliss or woe. — John Milton · 1667Man's love is of man's life a thing apart,
'Tis woman's whole existence. — Lord Byron · 1819Alas! the love of women! it is known
To be a lovely and a fearful thing. — Lord Byron · 1819No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century. — Mark Twain · 1894This ain't something a man usually tells a woman: I love you, Edith. — Archie Bunker · 1973What thou art is mine;
Our state cannot be severed, we are one,
One flesh; to lose thee were to lose my self. — John Milton · 1667Patriarchy6 quotes
A man has every season, while a woman has only the right to spring. — Jane Fonda · 1989It is hard for a woman to define her feelings in a language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs. — Thomas Hardy · 1874A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband. — Proverbs 12:4 · 686 BCMan for the field and woman for the hearth:
Man for the sword and for the needle she:
Man with the head and woman with the heart:
Man to command and woman to obey;
All else confusion. — Alfred Tennyson · 1847Our ancestors refused to allow any woman to transact even private business without a guardian to represent her; women had to be under the control of fathers, brothers, or husbands. But we (heaven preserve us!) are now allowing them even to take part in politics, and actually to appear in the Forum and to be present at our meetings and assemblies!... Give a free rein to their unprincipled nature, to this untamed animal, and then expect them to set a limit on their own license! — Livy · 9 BCTo men a man is but a mind. Who cares
What face he carries or what form he wears?
But woman's body is the woman. — Ambrose Bierce · 1906Women's rights6 quotes
Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less. — Susan B. Anthony · 1868I would earnestly ask my sisters to keep clear of both the jargons now current everywhere... Of the jargon, namely about the "rights" of women, which urges women to do all that men do... Merely because men do it, and without regard to whether this is the best that women can do; and of the jargon which urges women to do nothing that men do, merely because they are women... Woman should bring the best she has, whatever that is... Without attending to either of these cries. — Florence Nightingale · 1860The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself. — Virginia Woolf · 1929Our ancestors refused to allow any woman to transact even private business without a guardian to represent her; women had to be under the control of fathers, brothers, or husbands. But we (heaven preserve us!) are now allowing them even to take part in politics, and actually to appear in the Forum and to be present at our meetings and assemblies!... Give a free rein to their unprincipled nature, to this untamed animal, and then expect them to set a limit on their own license! — Livy · 9 BCIf men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament. — Florynce Kennedy · 1973In this century, which is the century of light and the revelation of mysteries... It is well established that mankind and womankind as parts of composite humanity are coequal and that no difference in estimate is allowable, for all are human. — Abdu'l-Baha · 1912Nature of men5 quotes
Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more,
Men were deceivers ever,
One foot in sea and one on shore,
To one thing constant never. — William Shakespeare · 1600I know enough about men to steer clear of them. — Eula · 1975Men are vile inconstant toads. — Lady Mary Wortley Montagu · 1710Men are rats, listen to me, they're fleas on rats, worse than that, they're amoebas on fleas on rats. I mean, they're too low for even the dogs to bite. The only man a girl can depend on is her daddy. — Frenchie · 1978Well, Pa, a woman can change better'n a man. A man lives sorta—well, in jerks. Baby's born or somebody dies, and that's a jerk. He gets a farm or loses it, and that's a jerk. With a woman, it's all in one flow, like a stream—little eddies and waterfalls—but the river, it goes right on. Woman looks at it thata way. — Ma Joad · 1940Nature of women5 quotes
In revenge and in love woman is more barbarous than man. — Friedrich Nietzsche · 1886In the grand design, women were drawn from a different set of blueprints. — Dale Cooper · 1990Women are born with pain built in. It's our physical destiny. Period pains, sore boobs, childbirth, you know. We carry it within ourselves throughout our lives. Men don't. They have to seek it out. — Belinda (Fleabag) · 2019Jefe, you do not understand women. You cannot force open the petals of a flower. When the flower is ready, it opens itself up to you. — El Guapo · 1986Well, Pa, a woman can change better'n a man. A man lives sorta—well, in jerks. Baby's born or somebody dies, and that's a jerk. He gets a farm or loses it, and that's a jerk. With a woman, it's all in one flow, like a stream—little eddies and waterfalls—but the river, it goes right on. Woman looks at it thata way. — Ma Joad · 1940Pursuing women5 quotes
Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart! — Nathaniel Hawthorne · 1850Jefe, you do not understand women. You cannot force open the petals of a flower. When the flower is ready, it opens itself up to you. — El Guapo · 1986I don't like gentlemen who grin at me. — Alicia Huberman · 1946The problem most men have is they don't know how to talk to women. — Cal · 2005She's beautiful, and therefore to be wooed;
She is a woman, therefore to be won. — William Shakespeare · 1592Gender roles4 quotes
Man for the field and woman for the hearth:
Man for the sword and for the needle she:
Man with the head and woman with the heart:
Man to command and woman to obey;
All else confusion. — Alfred Tennyson · 1847Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord. Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them. — Colossians 3:18-19 · 62Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body. — Ephesians 5:22-23 · 62Let each one of you love his wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband. — Ephesians 5:33 · 62Women's equality4 quotes
Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less. — Susan B. Anthony · 1868When two people take each other on terms of perfect equality, without the desire of one to control the other, to make the other subservient, it is a beautiful thing. It is the truest and highest state of life. — Susan B. Anthony · 1896When we abolish the slavery of half of humanity, together with the whole system of hypocrisy that it implies, then the "division" of humanity will reveal its genuine significance and the human couple will find its true form. — Simone de Beauvoir · 1949It will need more than the Nineteenth Amendment to convince me that there are no differences between men and women, or that legislation cannot take those differences into account. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. · 1923Adam and Eve3 quotes
And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man. — Genesis 2:23 · 1405 BCThe Lord God said, "It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him." — Genesis 2:18 · 1405 BCAnd the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall on Adam, and he slept; and He took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh in its place. Then the rib which the Lord God had taken from man He made into a woman, and He brought her to the man. — Genesis 2:21-22 · 1405 BCAttraction2 quotes
I want a woman that will arouse my intellect as well as my loins. — Prince Akeem · 1988This woman hates me so much, I'm starting to like her. — George Costanza · 1993Dangers of love2 quotes
Alas! the love of women! it is known
To be a lovely and a fearful thing. — Lord Byron · 1819True, 'tis an unhappy circumstance of life that love should ever die before us, and that the Man so often should outlive the Lover. But say what you will, 'tis better to be left than never to have been loved. — William Congreve · 1700Feminism2 quotes
Now, we are becoming the men we wanted to marry. — Gloria Steinem · 1982In the new Code of Laws which I suppose it will be necessary for you to make I desire you would Remember the Ladies, and be more generous and favourable to them than your ancestors. Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands. Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could. — Abigail Adams · 1776Flaws of men2 quotes
Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more,
Men were deceivers ever,
One foot in sea and one on shore,
To one thing constant never. — William Shakespeare · 1600However we do praise ourselves,
Our fancies are more giddy and unfirm,
More longing, wavering, sooner lost and worn,
Than women’s are. — William Shakespeare · 1602Friendship2 quotes
No man can be friends with a woman that he finds attractive he always wants to have sex with her. — Harry Burns · 1989Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship. — Oscar Wilde · 1892Friendship between men and women2 quotes
No man can be friends with a woman that he finds attractive he always wants to have sex with her. — Harry Burns · 1989A woman's friendship ever ends in love. — John Gay · 1720Hating men2 quotes
I hate men, but I’m not a lesbian. — Elaine Benes · 1992Jerry, this woman hates me so much, I’m starting to like her. — George Costanza · 1993Infidelity2 quotes
Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more,
Men were deceivers ever,
One foot in sea and one on shore,
To one thing constant never. — William Shakespeare · 1600When guys cheat, it’s like we want something new. But then you know what happens? Your woman finds out, and now she’s new. She is never the same again. — Chris Rock · 2018Man and animals2 quotes
It is not in giving life but in risking life that man is raised above the animal; that is why superiority has been accorded in humanity not to the sex that brings forth but to that which kills. — Simone de Beauvoir · 1949The female of the species is more deadly than the male. — Rudyard Kipling · 1911Relationship challenges2 quotes
Stand by your man
And show the world you love him,
Keep giving all the love you can. — Tammy Wynette · 1968By the time you say you're his,
Shivering and sighing
And he vows his passion is
Infinite, undying-
Lady, make a note of this:
One of you is lying. — Dorothy Parker · 1937Abortion1 quote
If men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament. — Florynce Kennedy · 1973Anti-capitalism1 quote
The worker is the slave of capitalist society, the female worker is the slave of that slave. — James Connolly · 1915Bad boys1 quote
We all fall for them. Pricks are spontaneous, they're unpredictable, and they're fun. And then we're surprised when they turn out to be pricks. — Alex Goran · 2009Battle of the sexes1 quote
Then shun, oh! shun that wretched state
And all the fawning flatterers hate:
Value yourselves, and men despise
You must be proud if you'll be wise. — Mary Chudleigh · 1703Broken heart1 quote
Heav'n has no Rage, like Love to Hatred turn'd,
Nor Hell a Fury, like a Woman scorn'd. — William Congreve · 1697