Quotes About Gender

I definitely struggle with a disillusionment towards my body and my gender.

Countries with short workweeks consistently top gender' equality rankings. The central issue is achieving a more equitable distribution of work.

I want the men of our nation to stand and take a stand against gender based violence.

Leaders talk about gender equality but it is not seen during selection of candidates. They will talk about winnability and a woman candidate seldom fulfils the criteria unless she is from a political family.

If there is a woman filmmaker or a woman artist, the issue of gender is floating very close to their work... It almost naturally comes into their work. If one looks at all the male artists, the issue is never there.

At the end of the day, the real goal of fashion is to create clothes that make you feel as comfortable as possible, inside and out - no matter what your gender.

I am not an expert on that whole issue of gender.

We'll always be re-examining how we relate to each other in terms of race and gender, in terms of power and access.

It is not easy to be a filmmaker but it has nothing to do with my gender.

Some women are forced by men to look a certain way to be accepted by the general public, and I find that terrible.

I think we're at a point in history where, generally, people consider themselves to be feminists in the sense that we believe in the equality of the sexes.

'Little Women' has interesting gender connotations. There are generations of women who love the book. But there are a lot of men who think it's sentimental, gooey stuff.

If there were genders to genres, fiction would be unquestionably feminine.

Certainly in the arts, in all genres, I think that men should step away. I think men should stop writing books. I think men should stop making movies or television. Say, for 50 to 100 years.

The men I've played are all respectful and gentlemen towards me. I've never really had a problem. In the past a lot of people would go: 'We're playing a woman.' But now they're thinking: 'We're playing a good player.'

I genuinely believe that our daughters would be safe if our sons are raised right.

There's still this idea that women are over by the time they are 40, so that they can't play the love interest opposite a 50-year-old man. George Clooney is 52, but he's always on the arm of a thirt-something actress. He gets Vera Farmiga. You don't get a 50-year-old woman on the arm of a 30-year-old guy.

There's always an assumption that when the girls get married they don't want to work.

As a kid, I wasn't sure that I would ever get married - I was not the kind of little girl who played at being a bride.

I never go anywhere and encourage people to get married to someone of the same gender or to have abortions - the issue never comes up.

A man can be 43, and people will say, 'Oh, he's a cool bachelor, and he just hasn't settled down,' but with a woman, it's, 'Oh, she must have really wanted to get married, but she didn't.' I honestly think that attitude is a little bit sexist.

I'm the kind of guy who'll go to a courthouse and get married, but for women, it's different. It means a lot to them.

I don't like getting dressed up. It's hard because as a woman, as an actor, the whole world wants you to enjoy dressing up.

I was a girl who was told that girls should not have their voice. I was from a conservative Muslim family where they only think about their daughters getting married.