Quotes About Gender

It was all men, and there I was prancing around in gowns that barely got past the censors.

We can barely deal with men who set their own rules; to ask us to accept a woman who is individualistic, passionate, beautiful and yes, possibly annoyingly arrogant, makes us just a little nervous.

I have to break down the barriers as a female. I have to work 30 times harder just for respect.

I got called a boy all the time. Going into the bathroom, I still get the shocked look, like, 'Are you supposed to be in here?' But I'm so used to it now, I'm just like, 'I'm a girl, I'm in the right bathroom.'

You have to have the same power to lead the life you want as a man does, and that means earning the same amount of money. We still have a battle on our hands with that.

We were alive during the 'Battle of the Sexes', but that story hadn't really been told.

We need to stop refighting 40-year old battles on women's rights.

All writers are battling and fighting as to how a woman should be characterised.

If I had my life to live over, I would want to be a man.

If I'd learned nothing else, it was this: If you want to be a great writer, be a man. If you can't be a man, write like one.

I've always wanted to be a man for a day.

I've learnt I don't have to be a man and I don't have to be a woman, I can just be me.

I'm not that powerful to take out the masculinity of a beard.

I'm doing a film now with a lot of guys as well, so at the end of that I will be growing a beard.

Why should only rich men have young, beautiful women? Rich women should have young, beautiful men.

Now I literally roll out of bed and put on whatever is there. I have really enjoyed being a boy this last year.

Right at the beginning, I didn't know if Miffy was a boy or girl.

When a woman behaves like a man why doesn't she behave like a nice man?

Men are beasts and even beasts don't behave as they do.

Culturally we're shown an impossible fantasy of how women should present themselves, how they should behave with men.

I behaved the way I was taught to behave: like a woman in the company of men. If you behaved aggressively in the company of men, they wouldn't accept you.

There's still a narrower band of acceptable behavior for women than men.

I think the biggest learned behavior that I would love to get rid of is that little voice that tells you, 'That's stupid. You shouldn't say that.' And then five seconds later, you hear somebody saying the same thing, and you think, 'Seriously, what is wrong with me?' I think, in particular, a lot of women do it. And that's a problem.

I like being a boy, but I also really like being a girl.