Quotes About Gender

Every man, they say, 'oh my wife is my boss.' So why can't they be bosses at work?

It doesn't bother me if I'm getting attention because I'm a girl.

I didn't have boundaries when I was growing up. I knew the difference between right and wrong, and all the things a kid needs to know, but nobody ever said to me, 'You can't do that, because that's not what girls are supposed to do. That's more of a boy thing.'

Boys don't like girls around when they do boy things.

I don't think I look like a boy, but I don't think androgyny is such a bad thing.

I think once I was in high school - I had boyfriends and stuff like that, but I think when I was younger, I went through a period where I looked like a boy, and people thought I was a boy.

Whenever I write a story, I hope it appeals to both boys and girls.

Kids are different. Boys and girls at 14, 15, 16 - some are more developed in the mind; some aren't... It comes down to the individual.

But if God wanted us to think with our wombs, why did he give us a brain.

Football in Brazil is seen as a masculine sport, even with a lot of people accepting the female sport.

More Brazilian women earn Ph.D.s every year than do men.

I feel like I 'get' boys. I've always been a boy's girl. Boys are easy; they just break stuff.

Transgressive to me means breaking the rules and sinning. I don't see myself as breaking the rules and sinning. I'm really interested in what it means to be female.

Some of the brightest and best women in our society are stifled in their ambitions.

In Britain, girls seem to be either bright or attractive. In America, that's not the case. They're both.

I'm too much of a broad; I make men shake in their boots because I have a male dominance in my make-up that makes them feel emasculated.

So many fantastic male characters are brooding, angry, and not nice; that doesn't happen as much with women.

You know, I grew up with brothers so I'm used to being the only girl.

Not everyone likes seeing a strong, buff guy, but everyone likes women. We compete just as hard as men do, and we can do the acting just as well.

If women built the bridges or were meant to build the bridges, then they would have done it.

I'm really obsessed with women who blur gender, and even men, like Pete Burns.

Growing up in the '70s, if you were a girl or woman, a man could tell you what to do - if you were sitting on the bus: 'Get up,' 'Move,' whatever. You did what you were told.

It's disconcerting that there's been this weird business model focused on teenaged boys, and it comes with a completely unexamined social cost. I hope there's an awareness happening to create an audience habituated to seeing women as they really are, rather than just a masticated shadow.

I don't write about too many male businessmen, and I'm not apt to write about too many female businessmen.