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As the French say, there are three sexes - men, women, and clergymen. — Sydney Smith

Lingerie was ammunition in the war of the sexes, and I planned on loading my guns. — Jessica Sims

The little rift between the sexes is astonishingly widened by simply teaching one set of catchwords to the girls and another to the boys. — Robert Louis Stevenson

The consequence of a very free commerce between the sexes, and of their living much together, will often terminate in intrigues and gallantry. — David Hume

What man can pretend to know the riddle of a woman's mind? — Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

Androgyny suggests a spirit of reconciliation between the sexes ... — Carolyn Heilbrun

The two sexes mutually corrupt and improve each other. — Mary Wollstonecraft

Gwendolen. How absurd to talk of the equality of the sexes! Where questions of self-sacrifice are concerned, men are infinitely beyond us. — Oscar Wilde

That's the way girls were
they always laughed. Because they were bitches. — Robert Bloch

Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes. — Oscar Wilde

The best thing about the battle between the sexes is often the sex between the battles. — Mardy Grothe

Feminist: a person who believes in the social, political, and economic equality of the sexes. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Men must be stripped of arrogance and women must become independent for any mutually nurturing alliance to endure between the sexes. — Erica Jong

The battle of the sexes and you're winning hands down. — Margaret Way

There are the two of you - the two sexes- to love and help one another. It must be a rich and wonderful world — Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Far from being a magic nostrum, true love, so-called, was a lingering illness, a clash of cold steel, a take no-prisoners war between Venus and Mars. — Nina Mason

A woman's never too old to make an idiot of herself. It goes along with equality of the sexes and potty parity. — Janet Evanovich

What we heard loud and clear is that the Battle Between the Sexes is over. It was a draw. Now we're engaged in Negotiation Between the Sexes. — Maria Shriver

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

Me Tarz-tosterone; You Estro-Jane — Tony Cleaver

Ten thousand women marched through the streets shouting, 'We will not be dictated to,' and went off and became stenographers. — G.K. Chesterton

People of all sexes have the right to explore femininity, masculinity-and the infinite variations between-without criticism or ridicule. — Leslie Feinberg

An idea built the wall of separation between the sexes, and an idea will crumble it to dust ... — Sarah Moore Grimke

The reason husbands and wives do not understand each other is because they belong to different sexes. — Dorothy Dix

In every power, of which taste is the foundation, excellence is pretty fairly divided between the sexes. — Jane Austen

There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them. — C.S. Lewis

Whatever the "real" differences between the sexes may be, we are not likely to know them until the sexes are treated differently, that is alike. — Kate Millett

The key imperatives of modernity: freedom of conscience, tolerance of difference, equality of the sexes, and an investment in life before death. — Ayaan Hirsi Ali

The war between the sexes is the only one in which both sides regularly sleep with the enemy. — Quentin Crisp

One of the bridges between sexes, to be sure, is sex. But men, too often feeling deficient in discourse, place too much emphasis on intercourse. — James Hollis

I would argue that something dark is lurking between the sexes, and that it is seeping out into cinema. — Romola Garai

It is in the interests of both sexes to hear the other sex's experience of powerlessness. — Warren Farrell

I think competitiveness between two people is still relevant, and the battle of the sexes still intrigues. — Julian Ovenden

Let the sexes mutually forgive each other their follies; or, what is much better, let them combine their talents for their general advantage. — Maria Edgeworth

The physical union of the sexes ... only intensifies man's sense of solitude. — Nikolai Berdyaev

It's a great shame that the world was organized with two sexes. It makes for a lot of trouble. — Margaret Ayer Barnes

The differences between the sexes are the single most important fact of human society. — George Gilder

Genuine equality between the sexes can only be realized in the process of the socialist transformation of society as a whole. — Mao Zedong

The tie that binds her to her oppressors is unlike any other. The division of the sexes is a biological given, not a moment in human history. — Simone De Beauvoir

After the gratifications of brutish appetites are past, the greatest pleasure then is to get rid of that which entertained it. — Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

I'm not a lesbian. I just think that all humans are born with the ability to be attracted to both sexes. — Megan Fox

I have become a conscientious objector in the war between the sexes. — Edna Buchanan

One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other. — Jane Austen

I've always felt there are three sexes: men, women, and actors. And actors combine the worst qualities of the other two. — Peter Biskind

Just because the sexes are equal doesn't mean that sex is. — Daria Snadowsky

If police officers routinely issue tickets for the most serious traffic offenses, they'll be treating drivers of all races, sexes, and ages equally. — Bill Dedman

Her sister, Vicky, had explained to her that being female, she had no choice but to be involved in the Battle of the Sexes.[MMT] — Nicholas Chong

You can learn more by going to the opera than you ever can by reading Emerson. Like that there are two sexes. — David Markson

Today the same thing over. I've got it up the tree again. — Mark Twain

Let there be then no coercion established in society, and the common law of gravity prevailing, the sexes will fall into their proper places. — Judith Sargent Murray

She hadn't ascribed to this modern notion of equality between the sexes. Woman were patently superior. — Laura Kinsale

She represented the distilled essence of the battle between the sexes. — Anne Edwards

Sexes. One has the look of a wound, the other of something skinned. — Joseph Joubert

Did you hear about the baby just born that was both sexes? It had a penis and a brain. - overheard at the University of Oregon Medical School — David James Duncan

The theory that music has a depraving effect on morals has now been abandoned to the old women of both sexes. — George Bernard Shaw

The finest people marry the two sexes in their own person. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Feminist is someone who believes in social, political, and economic equality of the sexes - the — Sheryl Sandberg

There is no difference 'twixt you and 'twixt me, save that one stands and one sits when we pee. — Trisha Telep

Women have a much better time than men in this world; there are far more things forbidden to them. — Oscar Wilde

Men marry women with the hope they will never change. Women marry men with the hope they will change. Invariably they are both disappointed. — Albert Einstein

How can you talk about power to the people unless you realise the people is both sexes. — John Lennon

People may talk about the equality of the sexes! They are not equal. The silent smile of a sensible, loving woman will vanquish ten men. — Henry Ward Beecher

I love the idea of there being two sexes, don't you? — James Thurber

Eleven hundred defenceless prisoners of both sexes and all ages had been killed by the populace; — Charles Dickens

There should be an end to the bitterness of feeling which has arisen between the sexes in this century. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman

All humans are born with the ability to be attracted to both sexes. I mean, I could see myself in a relationship with a girl. — Rihanna

I don't label myself a feminist. I love men, but I am all about promoting a better, healthier relationship between the sexes. — Liz Goldwyn

Dancing is the only activity in which almost all ages and both sexes participate. — Margaret Mead

If exposure of a nude body is thought to incite relations between the sexes, well, what of it. We want a large population anyway. — Paul Outerbridge

In the battle between the sexes, men and women will go practically to the end of the earth in illogical, irrational ways to give each other pain. — Karen DeCrow

The nice clean intimacy which we now so admire between the sexes is sterilizing. It makes neuters. Later on, no deep, magical sex-life is possible. — D.H. Lawrence

Dick tried to plunge over the Alpine crevasse between the sexes. — F Scott Fitzgerald

All the on-lookers were bewildered.The lovely slave girl, Briseis, had won the Battle of the Sexes with a kiss.[MMT] — Nicholas Chong

And the sexes eyeing each other uneasily, for nothing is easier for a teenager to imagine than rejection. — Roger Ebert

Both sexes like the exercise and challenge of sports, but for men it's also a basic display behavior for impressing and winning a mate. — Helen Fisher

One of the few things I've learned since then about the fundamental differences between the sexes is this: men make assumptions, but women rarely do. — Stephen King

The sexes in each species of being ... are always true equivalents - equals but not identical. — Antoinette Brown Blackwell

I see the beginning, I see the end. And in the middle I just hope I don't fall on my ass to much — Shehanne Moore

I'd love to have the kind of friend who would visit me before visiting a man. Otherwise I know where I'm ranked, which is below him. — Donna Lynn Hope

The word love has by no means the same sense for both sexes, and this is one cause of the serious misunderstandings that divide them. — Simone De Beauvoir

True equality of the sexes comes when a psychological unity of the masculine and feminine forces of one's own mind has been made. — Serena Jade

War and the 'war of the sexes' are neither divinely nor biologically ordained. — Riane Eisler

Marriage is built around complementarity of the sexes, and therefore the institution of marriage is a support for stable families and societies. — John Sentamu

(He) may have won a battle, but he was about to lose the war. — Linda Rodriguez McRobbie

Ever since Eve gave Adam the apple, there has been a misunderstanding between the sexes about gifts. — Nan Robertson

There is more difference within the sexes than between them. — Ivy Compton-Burnett

I wouldn't use the word 'man'. The Hebrew is ha-adam, which I would argue encompasses both sexes. — Michel Faber

There will always be a battle between the sexes because men and women want different things. Men want women and women want men. — George Burns

I think I should get the Nobel Peace Prize before I die for ending the war between the sexes. — Betty Dodson

Equal rights for the sexes will be achieved only when mediocre women occupy high positions. — Francoise Giroud

Nobody will ever win the battle of the sexes. There is too much fraternizing with the enemy. — Henry Kissinger

We are justified in believing that the success of this movement for equality of the sexes means more progress toward equality of the races. — Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin

The battle of the sexes will never be won as long as we keep sleeping with the enemy. — Emo Philips

When it comes to men, I appreciate them, don't bash them and never love them. — Donna Lynn Hope

That is the great distinction between the sexes. Men see objects, women see the relationships between objects. — John Fowles