“It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple: one must be a woman manly, or a man womanly.”

“There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman.”

Margaret Fuller (1810–1850) American feminist, poet, author, and activist

“The only problem with one-man woman was that he was not a one-woman man.”

Rachel Gibson (1961) American writer

“I couldn't stand the idea of a woman having to have a single pure life and a man being able to have a double life, one pure and one not.”

Sylvia Plath (1932–1963) American poet, novelist and short story writer

“In the blood of Eden,
Lie the woman and the man.
With the man in the woman,
And the woman in the man.”

Peter Gabriel (1950) English singer-songwriter, record producer and humanitarian

“Man is not of the woman, but the woman of the man. And man was not created for the cause of the woman, but the woman for the cause of man; and therefore ought the woman to have a power upon her head.”

Paul of Tarsus book First Epistle to the Corinthians

“An artist must be man, woman and demi-god.”

Henry Adams (1838–1918) journalist, historian, academic, novelist

“The most important thing about marriage is that the man must not let the woman feel downtrodden simply because she is a woman and he is a man.”

Saddam Hussein (1937–2006) Iraqi politician and President

“A woman unsatisfied must have luxuries. But a woman who loves a man would sleep on a board”

D.H. Lawrence (1885–1930) English novelist, poet, playwright, essayist, literary critic and painter

“A “shared choice” movement sees the fetus as the genes of a woman and the genes of a man; the flesh of the woman, the flesh of the man; the bone of a woman, the bone of a man; the responsibility of a woman, the responsibility of a man; the rights of a woman, the rights of a man. It desires a transition to equality.”

Warren Farrell (1943) author, spokesperson, expert witness, political candidate