Quotes About Gender

I am not sure gender ever won't be an issue in comedy, because I think that women do have different priorities in some respects.

We are on the forefront of a revolution in which identity and expression will take priority over the labels assigned to us at birth; in which self-identification will take priority over perception; in which gender will fall away entirely.

Unless we make computer science a priority, we risk making gender, class, and racial disparities worse as jobs flow to those with a computer science background.

When you work in film sets, when you're working on projects that are male dominated, you are always treated as the last priority.

I do see the ministry of Human Resources Development through the prism of gender. I see it through the prism of capabilities.

A lot of times, people say, 'You're so much like Loretta or Tammy Wynette.' But I feel kind of like one of the men. I'm like David Allan Coe. I've been to prison, man!

There used to be very few women in prisons, but this changed with the introduction of the hudood laws.

Men and women understand different things about personal boundaries. What men call privacy, women know as secrecy.

If I was going to make a broad generalisation, I'd say that I prefer the company of women. People know now that I live with Mike Figgis, but I prefer not to talk about it. On one level, privacy is important, but on another level I have no desire to deny certain things.

Some people think that gender equality is the biggest issue on the table, and to me, that's a privilege to even think that that's the biggest issue, because I am subject to much more inequality.

Being a woman means that my male privilege seeped out of my body.

Femininity in and of itself - and the feminine - can be not only privileged, but honored or worshipped.

What I'm trying to do in all senses is deconstruct our idea of gender and use the privileges that come with looking like a model to bring attention to that.

As an African-American, as a woman, I think that I've been sensitized to the way in which history privileges the white male and the way in which certain aspects of history, the things that we are taught in school, the things that are handed down, never, never entered the picture though they might have been very important.

As a woman filmmaker in Bosnia, I have more privileges than disadvantages. I feel I can do more than my male colleagues with a motherly approach rather than a male approach.

There's no prize for being the best woman.

Tennis has always been at the forefront of equality between men and women's prize money.

I'm not one of those women who's like pro women. I'm an individual, and I'm in an individual sport. So I see everyone as individuals, not as male or female.

I'm almost a feminist and believe if a girl wants to do something, she should be able to do it in the same way that a man is able to, which is sometimes a problem in our country.

In the Philippines, we don't have that much of a problem. There's not much difference between the men and the women. In our business, we always have a good mixture of the men and the women.

A woman's mind focuses on feelings, while a man's mind focuses on problem-solving.

I've run into women who can be highly problematic, detrimental, and mean, just like I've seen that in men.

It is a certain type of guy who's OK with having a girlfriend who is better at football than him. It is actually problematic. Some guys really can't cope with it.

How the hell can you change gender in the rural areas? I am a woman. We don't have good doctors; we are not rich to do such procedures.