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Quotes About Gender

People always blame the girl; she should have said no. A monosyllable, but conventional wisdom has always been that boys can't manage it.
~ Anna Quindlen
Sometimes I think fashion is more of a conversation between men than it is for women.
~ Kim Gordon
We've come quite far with the idea of equality between sexes, but there's still a lot of conversations that need to be had about men in power.
~ Jonathan Bailey
There aren't too many women out there who talk about cars. So that one person who I talk the most to about cars is my husband. It constitutes about 90 per cent of our conversations.
~ Alex Hirsch
Dog whistles about women who want handouts are simply an acceptable way to say that women are not worth as much as the men who must dominate the government. At the heart of Movement Conservatism is the conviction that America belongs to elite men alone.
~ Heather Cox Richardson
Before I saw 'Tootsie' with an audience, I thought, 'No one is going to believe this could convince anyone he's a woman.'
~ Sydney Pollack
As a little kid, I was convinced that I was a guy.
~ Ruby Rose
I feel more comfortable in men's clothing, and I'm a lot of more convincing as a boy than as a gendered female. But with women's clothing, I feel more empowered.
~ Rain Dove
A man who cooks is very sexy. A woman who cooks is not that sexy. Because it's associated in our mind to the domestic cliche of the woman.
~ Isabel Allende
I always wanted to be Romeo, not Juliet. Romeo is a much cooler way to be - Juliet's just up in a balcony, waiting.
~ Christine and the Queens
I went to an all-boys school, where I played rugby, so ballet wasn't the coolest thing to do.
~ Tom Holland
I have endless admiration for people like Chrissie Hynde who've been out as the only girl in a band. I'm not sure that, even as a little Marine Corps brat, I would've been able to deal with that.
~ Nancy Wilson
If it's Saturday night, and you're sitting on your couch watching 'Showtime at the Apollo,' then you're not a man's man.
~ Frank Vincent
I found that women entrepreneurs earn 50% less than their male counterparts.
~ Warren Farrell
I have never been paid equally to my male counterparts, and it's mainly because of bankability.
~ Stacy Martin
Sexism is real in this country.
~ Kamala Harris
When parents ask why there are still so few girls in advanced science and math classes in high school, I tell them, because girls still need way more encouragement than boys to take those courses.
~ Eileen Pollack
I would not like to be the only woman on the court.
~ Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Would I like to see more women in the courts? Yep.
~ Kim Reynolds
Most of my cousins are boys, so I'm used to being around boys.
~ Michelle Ryan
Everyone covering 'Stage Beauty' asks me: 'What's it like to wear a dress?'
~ Billy Crudup
Gay guys know how to craft, and they craft really well. Straight guys, forget it.
~ Amy Sedaris
Being a woman is really crap.
~ Siobhan Fahey
Russia will have a woman in space before the United States calls for a crash program for women astronauts.
~ Wally Funk