Quotes About Gender

It's such a shame that you were put in a category of a dumb blonde, but that's what they did in the '50s. You fought the system, but you didn't win.

I've only dressed in drag three or four times.

When people don't want to debate you on the smart issues of the day, it's just a lot easier to call you a dumb blonde from Fox.

Man was created to frame the woman.

People say, 'How would you do in the men's game?' I say, Give me a man's frame, and I think I'd do O.K.

I'm at the point, frankly, where I'd rather deal with a misogynist with a copy of Tucker Max's book in his backpack over someone in sensitive emo-boy clothing, because both are misogynists, only the one with the backpack is more honest about just how scared of women he is.

In L.A., there's a considerably different climate. It's more misogynistic, frankly.

For some reason, the word 'feminist' freaks people out, but when you look it up, all it means is equal opportunity.

You hear younger women say, 'I don't believe I'm a feminist. I believe women should have equal right and I believe in fighting for the rights of other women, but I'm certainly not a feminist. No, no, not that!' It's just a word. If you called it 'Fred' would it be better?

My two daughters have grown up with the same freedoms and opportunities as their male cousins; we must aspire for that to be every girl's reality.

I'm very comfortable with men - they're freer and a lot of fun!

All through college, I had frequently been the only girl in a science class - which wasn't such a bad deal.

I was the first man to put on a dress and play it straight. That was something very fresh. Still is.

A lot of people still think caring about clothes is a dubious, unserious, frivolous, girlie thing.

Ever since Eve gave Adam that forbidden fruit, demonizing and disbelieving women has been the planet-wide policy. You don't need to reach back to the Pleistocene to see the truth of that.

It is frustrating that religion in general includes components that treat women as a support system for a man rather than a leader or equal player in the relationship.

What is frustrating is being told that no matter how hard I've worked, it counts less than my appearance. Although if you're not considered conventionally attractive, that also becomes an issue: you know, you're a feminist because you couldn't get a man.

It's frustrating to see that people still get shocked when they see a woman doing action.

Far too often, girls are not given the space and opportunities they need to achieve their full potential.

It's a life choice to be a girl chef, as it is to be a boy chef. It feels pretty natural to me. It's a full-time, full-scale, full physical job, and a lot of times, it can take the place of kids and family. To be in this career is much more difficult for a woman to have a family, marriage - whatever that means. It's not a 9-5 job.

With almost no exceptions, art by men is much more expensive than art by women. Even great women artists, like Louise Bourgeois and Lee Krasner, are only fully embraced very late in their career.

I want my man to be the man, and I want to be the woman. Maybe that's not for everyone, but that's how we function.

As a young boy in Libya, it was hard to escape the conclusion that the women were the most feeling and most functional part of society.

Violence against women is fundamentally about power.