Quotes About Gender

I think I am a feminist in that I believe in equal pay between men and women.

Feminists don't like me, and I don't like them.

Who laughs less than feminists?

Women's writing was coming along fine until feminists came along and turned it into Women's Lit.

For years, the feminists thought of me as an army sergeant. I was too macho for them.

Men can be feminists.

In American fertility clinics, 75 percent of couples are requesting girls and not boys.

I didn't fall in love with boys - but a few men have been in love with me.

There are still so few female directors. There are far fewer writers than we'd like to see.

The logic was, there weren't too many female comedians, so I thought I might as well try a field that had fewer competitors than the field I was in, which was acting, singing and dancing.

It takes more time and energy for women to get ready to go on camera than it does men, and that means there are fewer available minutes to focus on actually getting the job done. That's a disadvantage.

We've always had to play second fiddle to the men in European football.

In high school, I didn't realize that science or engineering were male-dominated fields. When I got to college, and I was one of two girls in a 50-person class, that's when I realized that this was a unique decision I had made as a girl to go into engineering.

My coach never looked at me as a female fighter, but just as a fighter, as someone he was training. I had to work just as hard as the guys, or harder than them.

I'm a woman who's been in a man's sport since the age of 15, and to see people finally seeing what I saw right from the start, that female fighters are just as good 'pound-for-pound' as our male counterparts.

When I started law school I was shocked to learn that our legal system traditionally had the man as the head and master of the family. As late as the '70s and '80s when we were fighting for the Equal Rights Amendment, states like Louisiana still had a head and master law.

I think people get confused: people think 'strong female characters' mean you need to play an action figure.

It was tough trying to figure out how to put on all the women's clothes.

I've definitely met some people that cultivated a masculinity that they taught themselves. I don't know how they figured out how to do it, but I couldn't.

In society, it's hard for some to view women getting hit. They see the women as different figures rather than as athletes and fighters.

I don't think a heroine-oriented film has the capacity to pull an audience like a hero-oriented film in any film industry.

When the women in any other film industry are almost equal to men, in Malayalam only one or two women are among the crew.

Maybe, as a Chinese woman, I was never told I would be a filmmaker, so I didn't have the ego set up.

I was the artsy one, and my husband took care of all our finances. It was the Latino way - the man is in charge of the money.