Quotes About Gender

I didn't want to be perceived as a girly girl on stage.

Technology may be traditionally perceived as a male-dominated industry, but it won't always be that way. Every day we see more and more powerful women leaders boasting outstanding achievements.

Being perceived as a guy is nothing new or complicated to me. It is what it is.

As a woman, I know that if I write about another woman, it will be perceived as a catfight.

If you're one of the only women on a set - if it's you and a bunch of men - you feel like your value doesn't come from your thoughts and your talent and what you say: your value comes from how you look and how you're perceived by the men around you.

A gender capitalist is someone who takes advantage of opportunities given to people based on their perceived sex or gender.

I think there is pressure when it comes to the perceived notion that if you are woman in sports you're there for your looks. You cannot try to look nice on TV and also know what you're talking about.

As a woman of color, I always have to be at 150 percent and better than everybody in the room to be considered competent.

Ninety percent of my clothes are women's.

The Screen Actors Guild numbers are frightening: Something like 90 percent of the roles are for men, 5 percent are for livestock and 5 percent are for women.

Long ago when I went to college, campuses were about 70 percent male, and until 1970, it was still nearly 60 percent.

Seventy-five percent of MS sufferers are women.

There's the same percentage of genius happening in both genders, but there's less women writing scripts and out there looking for the job.

I don't think there has been a huge shift. Most of the films still focus on Salman Khan, Shah Rukh Khan, Aamir Khan, Akshay Kumar, etc. The percentage of films that have someone like a Kangana Ranaut shining in it is really low.

You still hear this perception that boys are good at math and girls are not, and it's not cool and it's not interesting. And I think we have to shift the culture. It's so deeply entrenched in who we are.

When I was a kid, I had no perception whatever that science fiction was supposed to be a boys' club.

There's no reason for men to be better at maths than women - it's just about our perception.

In India, the perception of a woman in a restaurant kitchen was that she wouldn't make it.

The perception of how a couple should argue, whose voice should be raised and who should be a dominant player has been altered in 'Dobara Phir Se.'

It's not at all a far jump to think that overall perceptions of gender - and what is and is not important in gender roles - would carry over from life to fiction.

Heterosexuality is dangerous. It tempts you to aim at a perfect duality of desire.

I don't know why in society when a woman demands perfection she is called crazy.

For me, choosing to perform in drag, because of all the things I enjoy about it, is a political act.

As a drag performer, my identity exists in music, art, and fashion, not in any one 'language' of gender or 'appearance.'