Quotes and Sayings about Sexes
"The sexes in each species of being... are always true equivalents - equals but not identical."
- Antoinette Brown Blackwell
(Related: Being, Sexes)
"There is more difference within the sexes than between them."
- Ivy Compton-Burnett
(Related: Difference, Sexes)
"I don't see why I can't have friends of both sexes without wild rumors being circulated. It's crazy."
- Leonardo DiCaprio
(Related: Being, Friends, Rumors, Sexes)
"This idea that males are physically aggressive and females are not has distinct drawbacks for both sexes."
- Katherine Dunn
(Related: Idea, Sexes)
"She represented the distilled essence of the battle between the sexes."
- Anne Edwards
(Related: Battle, Sexes)
"There's no evidence whatsoever that men are more rational than women. Both sexes seem to be equally irrational."
- Albert Ellis
(Related: Men, Women, Sexes)
"In the early days of Christianity the exercise of chastity was frequently combined with a close and romantic intimacy of affection between the sexes which shocked austere moralists."
- Havelock Ellis
(Related: Christianity, Affection, Chastity, Exercise, Intimacy, Romantic, Sexes)
"And we reduce almost all male-female problems by working on both the female and the male. And that usually means having both sexes take responsibility."
- Warren Farrell
(Related: Problems, Responsibility, Sexes)
"All women's issues are to some degree men's issues and all men's issues are to some degree women's issues because when either sex wins unilaterally both sexes lose."
- Warren Farrell
(Related: Men, Women, Sex, Sexes)
"That is the great distinction between the sexes. Men see objects, women see the relationships between objects."
- John Fowles
(Related: Men, Women, Relationships, Sexes)
"The differences between the sexes are the single most important fact of human society."
- George Gilder
(Related: Society, Fact, Sexes)
"The sexes were made for each other, and only in the wise and loving union of the two is the fullness of health and duty and happiness to be expected."
- William Hall
(Related: Happiness, Health, Duty, Sexes)
"French novels generally treat of the relations of women to the world and to lovers, after marriage; consequently there is a great deal in French novels about adultery, about improper relations between the sexes, about many things which the English public would not allow."
- Lafcadio Hearn
(Related: Women, Marriage, Adultery, English, Lovers, Public, Sexes, World)
"Women priests. Great, great. Now there's priests of both sexes I don't listen to."
- Bill Hicks
(Related: Women, Now, Sexes)
"It would be futile to attempt to fit women into a masculine pattern of attitudes, skills and abilities and disastrous to force them to suppress their specifically female characteristics and abilities by keeping up the pretense that there are no differences between the sexes."
- Arianna Huffington
(Related: Women, Force, Sexes)
"With all the weird surroundings of outer space the basic underlying theme of the show is a philosophical approach to man's relationship to woman. There are both sexes in the crew, in fact, the first officer is a woman."
- Jeffrey Hunter
(Related: Fact, First, Man, Sexes, Space, Woman)
"I think everybody's always attracted to both sexes. I mean, I think that women are very attractive. I've kissed girls, but everybody experiments. It's part of growing up."
- Monica Keena
(Related: Women, Girls, Growing up, Sexes)
"No one will ever win the battle of the sexes; there's too much fraternizing with the enemy."
- Henry A. Kissinger
(Related: Battle, Enemy, Sexes, Will)
"There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them."
- C. S. Lewis
(Related: Marriage, Sexes)
"I came from a big family - two brothers and two sisters. So, there were always a ton of boys around and a ton of girls around. So, I grew up comfortable with both sexes."
- Blake Lively
(Related: Family, Boys, Brothers, Girls, Sexes, Sisters)
"Usually that's going into biology in a certain way. There's certain strengths and weaknesses to both of the sexes. And I'm not against employing those nor am I against denying those, what I am looking for is a very large array of options."
- Mark Morris
(Related: Options, Sexes)
"Little old ladies of both sexes. Why do I let them bother me?"
- John O'Hara
(Related: Ladies, Old, Sexes)
"As the French say, there are three sexes - men, women, and clergymen."
- Sydney Smith
(Related: Men, Women, Sexes)
"In the scattered settlements of this Diocese, schools and Churches are of necessity for many years few in number, and multitudes of both sexes are growing up in great ignorance."
- John Strachan
(Related: Churches, Growing up, Ignorance, Necessity, Schools, Sexes, Years)
"The anger that appears to be building up between the sexes becomes more virulent with every day that passes. And far from women taking the blame... the fact is that men are invariably portrayed as the bad guys. Being a good man is like being a good Nazi."
- Dave Thomas
(Related: Anger, Men, Women, Being, Blame, Building, Day, Fact, Man, Sexes)
"Genuine equality between the sexes can only be realized in the process of the socialist transformation of society as a whole."
- Mao Tse Tung
(Related: Equality, Society, Sexes)
"She worded it a bit strongly, but I do find myself more and more struck by the differences between the sexes. To put it another way: All marriages are mixed marriages."
- Anne Tyler
(Related: Sexes)
"Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic."
- Evelyn Waugh
(Related: People, Class, Sexes)
"Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes."
- Oscar Wilde
(Related: Men, Women, Compliments, Difference, Sexes)