Quotes About Gender

I'm always disappointed by women who say they prefer working with men. What is that all about? I love working with women, I love the company of women.

The baseline character in a lot of Western literature is a man. So we, as women, do a lot of suspending of our disbelief to experience a novel or a play or a movie through that male character.

In the U.S., with very few exceptions, actresses older than 35 are simply discarded.

I am often asked why there is discrimination against women in science. And I have given it some thought. With prejudicial attitudes, you can't really do much. You can point out when people discriminate and ask them not to.

It wasn't until I got to Cambridge that I discovered active discrimination against women.

Funny enough, the most discrimination I've ever gotten as a woman in this industry has been from other women.

There is so much discrimination towards women in Haryana.

The lack of role models at the top means women can't look up and see an image of themselves as easily as men can. And there is still discrimination.

You can't discuss everything with a male director.

We often run the risk, when discussing women empowerment, to think that this is about women talking about women with other women, but this is not the point.

Fifty-nine cents. For years, I wore a button - '59 cents.' Many of my colleagues wore it also. The purpose was so that people would come up and ask, 'What does '59 cents' mean?' One could then launch into a discussion about how women working full time in the U.S. earn 59 cents for every dollar earned by men.

I find it embarrassing and disgusting to ask to do a part and be told I'm too pretty. How can I answer that?

Guys should be doing laundry, doing dishes.

The more successful you are as a man, the more you're liked. And the more successful you are as a woman, the more you're disliked.

Don't dismiss Auriemma and UConn just because their excellence shines on the female side of the coin.

Pay disparity has always been there.

Pay disparity is not just in our country but elsewhere in the world, too. However, I do believe that there will come a time when it will change.

You've got to stick up for what you believe in. If you don't do that, you're doing a disservice to the audience, because you're making something really diluted. And if you do that when you're a guy, you're seen as artistic - 'difficulty' is seen as a sign of genius. But it's not the same for women.

I'd like to believe that achieving a leadership position is all about competency, capability and ambition, so I try not to distinguish between the sexes when it comes to giving career advice.

I personally find the ideas that girls need to cover their shoulders in school a little bit strange... when we're telling girls, you know, 'You have to cover your shoulders because otherwise you're a distraction to other people in your class,' probably something is wrong.

We became quite famous in our district. People came especially to watch us. And I used to love it when we heard them saying, 'There go the girls who beat boys.'

Together, we can put pressure on our employers to do better, to represent the rich diversity of the audience they serve, to stop painting women as sidekicks, as appendages or accessories to men.

If an audience is watching you and you're a bloke - it's the same as if you're a woman. They're expecting the same: to be entertained.

Nobody expects girls to do something smart or give one liners in a film.