Quotes About Gender

I don't do what I do to try and break a glass ceiling.

I don't like putting the female form behind glass or on a wall, further objectifying it as much as art does.

Our main aim globally is to connect more women to the economy because we know there is a specific market failure there: women are having more difficulty in business than men.

If you feel inside you are a woman, be a woman - no one can take that away from you, man. No one can make that feeling go away. If that's what you need to do to be complete, then no one has the right to tell you you can't do that.

Whenever someone says, or whenever someone harkens back to, a golden age of the U.S. - usually the '40s or '50s - 90 percent of the time, they're a straight white man.

I feel that more women should turn directors as they are more sensitive and emotional than men - that's a crucial factor in being a good director.

I'm a girl, and I'm a cook- I just like to cook, and I don't like to worry about the distinctions. We're just supposed to make good food.

The more words I learned, the more I started to verbalize my feelings. Whenever my mom or dad would compliment me by saying something like 'Good boy,' I'd immediately correct them. 'No. Good girl.'

It's always a good idea to go up for the male roles. You go up against a bunch of beefy guys, and the casting director then feels smart for taking you on, like he's the one who thought outside the box.

You're always one of the only girls, because there are so many male writers, and there are not enough good parts for women.

We thought we'd write a good script for women, giving them the fun roles that generally men get.

I was never good at being a boy, but I was always a good student.

I don't think it's a good thing to talk about women's issues being exactly the same as the issues of trans women because I don't think that's true.

I am a scientist. To be specific, I am a woman scientist. This, I have been told and have come to believe, is a good thing. In fact, it is such a good thing that America needs more of us. Everyone seems to be very sure of this. The thing that no one is sure about, however, is how to make it happen.

a woman should have every honorable motive to exertion which is enjoyed by man, to the full extent of her capacities and endowments. The case is too plain for argument. Nature has given woman the same powers, and subjected her to the same earth, breathes the same air, subsists on the same food, physical, moral, mental and spiritual. She has, therefore, an equal right with man, in all efforts to obtain and maintain a perfect existence.

Stupidity in a woman is unfeminine.

Woman was God's second mistake.

In revenge and in love woman is more barbaric than man is.

When a woman has scholarly inclinations there is usually something wrong with her sexuality.

Women can form a friendship with a man very well; but to preserve it, a slight physical antipathy most probably helps.

When thou goest to woman, take thy whip.

The same passions in man and woman nonetheless differ in tempo; hence man and woman do not cease misunderstanding one another.

Men have hitherto treated women like birds which have strayed down to them from the heights; as something more delicate, more fragile, more savage, stranger, sweeter, soulful – but as something which has to be caged up so that it shall not fly away.

In revenge and in love woman is more barbarous than man.