Quotes About Gender

I love who I am. But being a woman competing in a male-dominated sport and always trying to push the envelope as a female athlete, you get a lot of comparisons to men and things like that.

Growing up, I always got 'She's a man,' or 'She plays too hard,' or 'There's just no way that she can be that good because, you know, a girl can't do that.' And I struggle with it a little bit. I'm like: Well, am I going too hard? And then I just realized, like, I'm a competitor.

Certainly anyone who complains of sexism is marked down as humourless.

We live in one of the most complex ages for young, professional women.

Well, actually, I'm a bisexual lesbian in a man's body... but it's more complicated than that.

It has been said that I make chick flicks. This is not a compliment.

If people really want to know whether I am a woman or transsexual, I take it as a compliment. It means I'm doing my job well.

It's nice to get compliments from both girls and guys.

The questions I am often asked about my career tend to concentrate not on how one learns to code but how a woman does.

Every woman likes her own way, but no woman can endure to see another woman master even over a man who does not concern her.

Women in the post-Fifties world were appendages. They existed to serve men. Their lives and concerns didn't matter, except insofar as they impinged on Important Male Things.

If you're born a woman, you have a pre-existing condition.

We are conditioned to believe that the hero is always a man, but it might not necessarily be so.

At school I used to hang out with the girls - they looked after me but the boys would call me gay and I'd get into fights. They'd push me and I'd push them back. I don't condone violence, but you have to stick up for yourself because no one else will.

For some reason, the executive world is not conducive to women as much as to men. There are reasons for that. Women multitask; men by-and-large are much better at doing one thing at a time.

If you're a woman and you're working, you're already set up for conflict.

It's challenging to find self-love when there's confusion and you're living in a world that's seemingly very binary and black and white.

When you grow up as a woman, there is that confusion where you think, 'I need to be this or that to fit in.' Now, I'm very much like, 'No, this is what I am.'

I would not have a woman go to Congress merely because she is a woman.

It's not right to say that only girls get emotional while watching a movie. I have seen so many men connecting with a movie so much that they get emotional.

In my own writing, I avoid 'female' and try to say 'woman' because I feel that the word 'female' has connotations of not just biology but also non-human mammals. The idea of 'female' to me is more appropriate for a female animal.

It hasn't been a conscious thing, like, 'I don't want to listen to a bunch of dudes,' but I genuinely like music by women better.

As an 18-year-old, I really sensed the call of God. What was interesting about that time was, I come from a very conservative part of the body of Christ, so there was really nothing for a woman to do.

I don't have a lot of men in my life. I'm married, but I have daughters. I'm surrounded by a lot of females in my world.