"The trouble with some women is they get all excited about nothing, and then they marry him."

Cher on women
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"Man is not the enemy here, but the fellow victim."

Friedan, Betty on men   

"It is easier to live through someone else than to become complete yourself."

Friedan, Betty on relationship
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"A woman is handicapped by her sex, and handicaps society, either by slavishly copying the pattern of man's advance in the professions, or by refusing to compete with man at all."

Friedan, Betty on sex   

"Instead of fulfilling the promise of infinite orgasmic bliss, sex in the America of the feminine mystique is becoming a strangely joyless national compulsion, if not a contemptuous mockery."

Friedan, Betty on sex   

"The feminine mystique has succeeded in burying millions of American women alive."

Friedan, Betty on women   

"Strange new problems are being reported in the growing generations of children whose mothers were always there, driving them around, helping them with their homework --an inability to endure pain or discipline or pursue any self-sustained goal of any sort, a devastating boredom with life."

Friedan, Betty on children
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"Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony."

Austen, Jane on women
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"Femininity appears to be one of those pivotal qualities that is so important no one can define it."

Bird, Caroline on women
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"Feminism is hated because women are hated. Anti-feminism is a direct expression of misogyny; it is the political defense of women hating."

Dworkin, Andrea on feminism   

"Feminism is an entire world view or gestalt, not just a laundry list of women's issues."

Bunch, Charlotte on feminism
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"I hate discussions of feminism that end up with who does the dishes, she said. So do I. But at the end, there are always the damned dishes."

French, Marilyn on feminism   

"If Miss means respectably unmarried, and Mrs. respectably married, then Ms. means nudge, nudge, wink, wink."

Carter, Angela on women
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"A woman cannot do the thing she ought, which means whatever perfect thing she can, in life, in art, in science, but she fears to let the perfect action take her part and rest there: she must prove what she can do before she does it, -- prate of woman's rights, of woman's mission, woman's function, till the men (who are prating, too, on their side) cry, A woman's function plainly is... to talk. Poor souls, they are very reasonably vexed!"

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett on women   

"Only when manhood is dead -- and it will perish when ravaged femininity no longer sustains it -- only then will we know what it is to be free."

Dworkin, Andrea on men   

"In this society, the norm of masculinity is phallic aggression. Male sexuality is, by definition, intensely and rigidly phallic. A man's identity is located in his conception of himself as the possessor of a phallus; a man's worth is located in his pride in phallic identity. The main characteristic of phallic identity is that worth is entirely contingent on the possession of a phallus. Since men have no other criteria for worth, no other notion of identity, those who do not have phalluses are not recognized as fully human."

Dworkin, Andrea on men
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"Men are the dreams of a shadow."

Pindar on men
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"He may have hair upon his chest but, sister, so has Lassie."

Porter, Cole on men   

"There are only two kinds of men; the dead and the deadly."

Rowland, Helen on men
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"Most men act so tough and strong on the outside because on the inside, we are scared, weak, and fragile. Men, not women, are the weaker sex."

Rubin, Jerry on men
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"Man is the only animal of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid of."

Shaw, George Bernard on men   

"The male function is to produce sperm. We now have sperm banks."

Solanis, Valerie on men   

"It is funny the two things most men are proudest of is the thing that any man can do and doing does in the same way, that is being drunk and being the father of their son."

Stein, Gertrude on men
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"One of the things being in politics has taught me is that men are not a reasoned or reasonable sex."

Thatcher, Margaret on men
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"All men are two meters tall... give or take a meter."

Unknown, Source on men   

"What God wants are men great enough to be small enough to be used."

Unknown, Source on men
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"I only like two kinds of men; domestic and foreign."

West, Mae on men
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"I go for two kinds of men. The kind with muscles, and the kind without."

West, Mae on men
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"Men are like sheep, of which a flock is more easily driven than a single one."

Whately, Richard on men
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"A woman simply is, but a man must become. Masculinity is risky and elusive. It is achieved by a revolt from woman, and it is confirmed only by other men. Manhood coerced into sensitivity is no manhood at all."

Paglia, Camille on men   

"It is much more easy to accuse the one sex than to excuse the other."

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De on men   

"A man that is ashamed of passions that are natural and reasonable is generally proud of those that are shameful and silly."

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley on men
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"Someone has to stand up for wimps."

Ehrenreich, Barbara on men   

"Men's men: gentle or simple, they're much of a muchness."

Eliot, George on men   

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"Men are what their mothers made them."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on men
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"Macho doesn't prove mucho."

Gabor, Zsa Zsa on men
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"The little man is still a man."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on men
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"The tragedy of machismo is that a man is never quite man enough."

Greer, Germaine on men   

"All societies on the verge of death are masculine. A society can survive with only one man; no society will survive a shortage of women."

Greer, Germaine on men
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"When a man is wrong and won't admit it, he always gets angry."

Haliburton, Thomas C. on men
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