Quotes About Gender

I would definitely wear flat menswear-like shoes.

The women themselves say they're far more likely to care about flexibility. The men say, 'I'm far more likely to care about money.'

A lot of people think I'm a chick. It happens the most at airports. The flight attendants will always say, 'Have a nice flight, Ms. Borns.' It must be the hair.

I flirt all the time. I like men! I don't think we can do without them.

When I first started, it was so male-heavy, so male-dominated, that on the 18th floor of the criminal courts building, which was where I worked, there were three men's bathrooms and only one women's bathroom.

You don't ask if an aircraft is being flown by a man or a woman - if it flies, it means it's doing the job it is meant to. The same is with cinema, and all that matters is whether the film works or not.

We live in a capitalist society and if we're talking about the people at the bottom of the food chain, it's women of colour.

I tell people all the time, 'Don't be fooled, because I am a man by day.'

One of the biggest challenges you face as a female manager is getting a foot in the door to be interviewed fairly.

If you say you're a football coach, especially with a dude, they're always all over you.

When I started, when I was eight, I never thought I would make a career out of being a woman footballer.

I don't call myself a women's footballer; I say I'm a footballer.

Playing with the boys made me a better footballer. It made me more competitive and made me want to win even more. You were playing against the boys and wanted to prove how good you were.

We are getting to the point where, like the men's game, playing football is not only a legitimate career but enables you to live really well and can perhaps even set you up for life. It will allow little girls to tell their mums and dads they want to be professional footballers and not have their dreams dismissed so easily.

Where a man is forceful, a woman is shrill.

It is male-chauvinistic industry, and there's still a long way to go for the female-centric genre to come to the fore.

How does a woman in authority convey that authority? Is it possible for a woman to rule without sounding shrill? Is it possible for a woman to manage without manipulating? All of these things seem to me to be very much at the fore today, and were no less the case 2,000 years ago.

I don't know that a lot of boys read 'Rookie', but we get quite a few nice comments and e-mails from them. To say I'm devoted to making it girls-only is a little extreme, because I don't actively try to exclude everyone else, just make sure girls know that this space is for them first and foremost.

I think that an actor is more likely to be forgiven in the public's eye than an actress.

Of course my dad went to Formula One, so I think that my dad is the better driver of the two. But I think, for a girl, my mom was not too bad, of course.

It's hard to tell whether the ship or airplane - they're all the same, I'm convinced - is male or female; it may shift back and forth.

We will never know exactly how many women disguised themselves as men and fought in the Civil War. At the close of the hostilities, it was estimated that approximately 400 women had managed to enlist, but this number is almost certainly too low.

Women had a rights movement where they fought for changes. Men... don't band together in quite that way. It happens not in such a public-cascade way as in a house-to-house way.

Throughout my career I've fought for the rights of women as full and equal members of society.