Quotes About Gender

Leadership is so defined by men, and we need to revise that - we need to be able to say that the people we honor are not the conquerors but the peacemakers.

It's not very exciting to go to work to just have your character's identity being defined by her relationship with her male counterparts.

I admire actors such as Laura Linney, Cate Blanchett and Andrea Riseborough, who take risks and fight to not be defined by their gender.

Women throughout history have had to defy rigid conventions about what is and is not expected of them.

There are those women who degrade the name of women, and there are men who degrade the name of women. But for the most part, we can't live without them.

You think that being a girl is degrading, but secretly, you'd love to know what it's like, wouldn't you?

'Middlesex' by Jeffrey Eugenides left me both moved and, at times, laughing out loud in delight.

Men are easier to get on with than women. They tend not to make emotional demands on you.

The whole thing of sexually objectifying yourself is really demoralizing and degrading as a human being, and it's something that men have never had to do, and it's something that 'Hanna' has never had to do.

Not only was I really, really depressed when I was not out to the world, but I just finished my NBC series, and I didn't think it was right to come out during that when I was playing a male character.

The depressing reality is that campaigns like the Everyday Sexism Project would not need to exist were casual sexism not so startlingly commonplace.

Same-sex marriage would eliminate entirely in law the basic idea of a mother and a father for every child. It would create a society which deliberately chooses to deprive a child of either a mother or a father.

With the depth of the women's game, the entertainment it gives, and the work we put into it, I think equal pay is right.

I think 'ambitious' is one of those adjectives used for women in a derogatory way.

In India, when someone calls you sexy, they don't mean it as a compliment; it has derogatory connotations.

If the ascent of women has been much exaggerated, so has the descent of men.

I always wonder about the word 'intense.' 'Intense' is used to describe women. Guys are intense, but they don't get described that way.

The gloomiest way of describing the ancient world is it is misogyny from A to Z, really.

As drivers desert the city I find myself clinging more and more to my father's belief that a man without a car is not really a man.

I deserve to be paid the same as men.

I think a lot of us women feel like we deserve to play on the big courts in front of a big crowd as well.

There aren't that many great female roles in Shakespeare - none that I'd be desperate to play.

This is what's hard: I know I'm legally a man, but I'm also male-minded, despite having the female appearance.

Despite being a woman, somehow I have always found myself idolising male characters.