Quotes About Gender

We need to fight for women's rights, but I don't want to separate women from men. We're separated already because we're not made the same, and it's the difference that creates this energy in creation and love.

I think I've always had that struggle my whole life, of feeling a little bit more gender-neutral, feeling more comfortable as a creative person when I'm dressed like a boy, when I'm dressed more masculine.

I feel like men in beauty have to work a lot harder just to get credibility, because it's such a women's world.

There are still men in the professional or behind the scenes world that are controlling women to build credibility.

I haven't played men's Test cricket, I've played women's Test cricket.

I wasn't aware of women's cricket until I was 10. We grew up following the men's game.

I think there's a concept that crime fiction is or was male-dominated, but it really never has been.

The thought of being a boy makes me cringe. I just couldn't do it.

The 'aha' moment came one to me one morning when I was applying my mascara, and I realized that the retirement crisis is actually a woman's crisis: Women live longer than men yet retire with less money.

Men are much more egotistical. But that means women can accept criticism and improve easier than men can.

If people criticize me because they don't like how I break down one of Giancarlo Stanton's at-bats, OK. If they criticize me because I'm a woman, that's not OK.

I have learned how to say no, and I have to check myself all the time. I'm not great at it still. Women get criticized a lot more for saying no than men do.

It's predominantly a male society, predominately a male culture, predominantly a male theatre, and predominantly male critics, but that's changing, definitely.

I'm like a cross between Bettie Page and Lady Miss Kier but a guy.

Men can't bear to see women cry.

In our cultural history, all emotions have been more culturally acceptable to women.

I believe very deeply that the world would be a better place if it weren't run as it's currently run, which is by men.

We urgently need to address the assumption bound up in our employment laws and custody arrangements that women are the 'natural child carers' and men don't really want much to do with their children.

If you were just to look at Lockheed Martin, you'd see a lot of women in senior roles in our company and, not only that, our customers, so I don't consider it an old boys' club.

I act for love. I give it my all. I would probably still do it even if I wasn't paid at all. But in terms of equal pay, I need to be paid the same as the guy who has equal billing with me. Otherwise, I won't do it. Because if you accept less, you're just letting everyone else down and continuing the cycle.

The thing about dads is, even when they're very good, they don't do anything like as much as most mums do.

I think that the Me Too movement, which in some ways has been very good, in other ways, as with everything else, has been very damaging. Because really it has immobilised men. It has really prevented men from being men.

Directors didn't want to work with me because I was 'too controlling.' If it had been a man, it wouldn't have meant a damn thing.

No boys liked Take That, and it was weird if you did because they danced around and wore matching clothes. But I didn't grow up with a dad who told me something was manly or not manly.