Women have convinced ourselves that we can do what men can do. But we haven't convinced ourselves and therefore haven't convinced our country, that men can do what women can do.

- Gloria Steinem

It's easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.

- Frederick Douglass

No man is good enough to govern any woman without her consent.

- Susan B. Anthony

Love is the whole history of a woman's life, it is but an episode in a man's.

- Madame de Stael

I am neither a man nor a woman but an author.

- Charlotte Bronte

Men build bridges and throw ra ilroads across deserts, and yet they contend successfully that the job of sewing on a button is beyond them. Accordingly, they don't have to sew buttons.

- Heywood Broun

Men and women belong to different species and communications between them is still in its infancy.

- Bill Cosby

Divorced men are more likely to meet their car payments than their child support obligations.

- Susan Faludi

Housework is the only activity at which men are allowed to be consistently inept because they are thought to be so competent at everything else.

- Letty Cottin Pogrebin

All young women begin by believing they can change and reform the men they marry. They can't.

- George Bernard Shaw

Men have been found to deny woman intellect; they have credited her with instinct, with intuition, with a capacity to correlate cause and effect much as a dog connects its collar with a walk.

- W. L. George

I would rather trust a woman's instinct than a man's reason.

- Stanley Baldwin

The struggle of the male to learn to listen to and respect his own intuitive, inner prompting is the greatest challenge of all. His conditioning has been so powerful that it has all but destroyed his ability to be self-aware.

- Herb Goldberg

What passes for woman's intuition is often nothing more than man's transparency.

- George Jean Nathan

God made man stronger but not necessarily more intelligent. He gave women intuition and femininity. And, used properly, that combination easily jumbles the brain of any man I've ever met.

- Farrah Fawcett

Men need rule books. Women want men to intuit what they want. And only about 2% of men can do that, and most of them are not heterosexual.

- Dennis Prager



I think somebody ought to do a survey as to how many great, important men have quit to spend time with their families who spent any more time with their family.

- Walter Cronkite



No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.

- Simone de Beauvoir



[M]en are too emotional to vote. Their conduct at baseball games and political conventions shows this, while their innate tendency to appeal to force renders them unfit for government. (source)

- Alice Duer Miller



Women are systematically degraded by receiving the trivial attentions which men think it manly to pay to the sex, when, in fact, men are insultingly supporting their own superiority.

- Mary Wollstonecraft



If the world were a logical place, men would ride side saddle.

- Rita Mae Brown



Women want mediocre men, and men are working to be as mediocre as possible.

- Margaret Mead



In the faces of men and women I see God.

- Walt Whitman



Never trust a husband too far, nor a bachelor too near.

- Helen Rowland



The basic discovery about any people is the discovery of the relationship between its men and its women.

- Pearl S. Buck



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

- Virginia Woolf



Why are women ... so much more interesting to men than men are to women?

- Virginia Woolf



If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons.

- James Baldwin



Men weren't really the enemy -- they were fellow victims suffering from an outmoded masculine mystique that made them feel unnecessarily inadequate when there were no bears to kill.

- Betty Friedan



Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.

- Robert Heinlein



The friendship between a man and a woman which does not lead to marriage or desire for marriage may be a life long experience of the greatest value to themselves and to all their circle of acquaintance and of activity; but for this type of friendship both a rare man and a rare woman are needed. Perhaps it should be added that either the man or the woman thus deeply bound in lifelong friendship who seeks marriage must find a still rarer man or woman to wed, to make such a three cornered comradeship a permanent success.

- Anna Garlin Spencer



Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less.

- Susan B. Anthony



If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.

- Katharine Hepburn



I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.

- Gloria Steinem



If you want anything said, ask a man. If you want something done, ask a woman.

- Margaret Thatcher



Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.

- Katharine Hepburn



A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.

- Robert Frost