Being a woman Quote by Sheila Heti

One good thing about being a woman is we haven't too many examples yet of what a genius looks like.

— Sheila Heti

No woman has ever been an authentic genius of the stature of men, but that does not enrage me

— Taylor Caldwell

The man of genius possesses, like everything else, the complete female in himself; but woman herself is only a part of the Universe, and…

— Otto Weininger

Genius has no gender.

— Ritu Ghatourey

Women of genius commonly have masculine faces, figures and manners. In transplanting brains to an alien soil God leaves a little of the original…

— Ambrose Bierce

There are no female geniuses because there are no female Jack-the-Rippers.

— Camille Paglia

I don't want to be a genius-I have enough problems just trying to be a man.

— Albert Camus

The real wonder is not that one man should be a genius, but that every man should not be.

— Mary Hunter Austin

Genius is an exceedingly common human quality, probably natural to most of us.

— John Taylor Gatto

An intelligent woman is a woman with whom one can be as stupid as one wants.

— Paul Valery

The great and almost only comfort about being a woman is that one can always pretend to be more stupid than one is and…

— Freya Stark

Genius is of small use to a woman who does not know how to do her hair.

— Edith Wharton