Quotes About Gender

There aren't a lot of roles written for women who are strong willed.

All the roles are for boys. The girls' roles are either small or all the same. There's just nothing interesting.

I grew up in a world that told girls they couldn't play rock 'n' roll.

Personally, I feel a strong responsibility to make sure that we have women equally represented in our executive suites and that we employ women in front of and behind the camera and in our writers' rooms.

Society has this deeply rooted love of seeing women fail.

I think being a young female star must be really, really pretty rough.

Seeing a woman project the kind of aggression that you have to project as a comic just rubs me wrong.

Men are domineering in rural Haryana, and that shows in sport, too.

With men it's always like this in Russia - they always want to be the head of everything.

The sad truth of our country is that Indian women don't get a moment of rest.

Sadly, people think a guy and a girl can't be friends without something romantic going on.

CoverGirl putting my face on such an international scale did make a huge leap forward for men in makeup and for boys in beauty and for anybody wanting to express themselves.

When people ask me, 'Should I earn the same money as the men?' No, I don't believe I should because they're on a bigger scale than me, they have more fans, are more popular.

I thought, if a man has a girl's name and he's still scaring people, then maybe I should try doing it so I can be that guy.

I was not a 'Doctor Who' fan. As a kid, I thought it was scary and for boys.

But I don't see myself as a woman in science. I see myself as a scientist.

When we think of scientists, we hear a man's voice.

My whole life I've never felt, as a female, I was up to scratch.

In the late 1950s, the woman's place in society was second-class.

Being a woman leader is secondary to me - and should be to others.

When I started secondary school, it was assumed that the girls would do domestic science and the boys would do science, and I wasn't too happy with that.

Most of the people we worked with were men. And the women were secretaries.

I love when an outfit embodies the fluidity of my gender - it makes me feel the most confident and grounded, especially when attending fashion shows, which can be extremely overwhelming.

Around the world, it is much more difficult for women than for men to run a successful business. Even when laws are not explicitly biased against them, companies owned and operated by women often face discrimination every step of the way, from obtaining finance to finding customers.