Quotes About Gender

I like shocking people just because, like, I can wear a dress, too. Not even for people to go, 'Oh she's grown up,' but to show people that I'm actually a girl.

I'd grown up with a lot of women. My mother was a famous lesbian in the '20s and '30s, and I grew up with only women, so I was used to getting on with them.

It is always funny to see a grown man bully get beat up by a little girl or anything.

It's important to say that it's not just men that can be man-children. Women can be grown-up women and still have the playfulness of people who are younger.

I've experienced that, I think everyone who grows up a male experiences this idea of what it's supposed to mean to become a man from a boy.

One thing I think constantly is if brands like Gucci can make plus-size menswear, then why can't we see it for women?

We try to do too many things that used to be in the men's domain, and we try to do them like men's. I'm a prude - I guess you can tell that - but I think, 'Why would you do that?'

I guess I just do being a man different than some.

You know, you go home and you try on a new mascara, and I guess a male CEO can't do that.

When women fight for a higher salary, they can often feel guilty. When men fight for more pay, they feel empowered. I've always wanted to encourage women to go after the money they deserve.

Just by existing as men, we are automatically guilty of everything in some people's minds. And, on top of that, we've created a situation in the media where men are only allowed to talk about politics and sport.

I think of myself as a tomgirl. A boy who's girly in every presentational aspect. And I play guitar and write good songs.

It's not easy being a female guitar player. You have to believe in yourself.

When you're up on stage, especially being a female guitar player in a male-dominated field, if they just see you're into it, and it's your passion, and you're just giving it your all - it's not, like, an accessory - then it's all cool.

I think my best advice for young guitar players is that it's not an easy road - definitely not; female guitar player or male guitar player, it's not an easy road at all.

I enact as a female in 'Guru En Aalu' for the first time.

It does annoy me when I walk into a room and there are six men over the age of 40 with, let's just say, a major gut problem, and they're saying 'hang on there Dervla, don't eat your chocolate cake at dessert.'

It takes a lot of guts to put on a face full of makeup, being a male in the world where a lot of people still think that cosmetics are only for women.

Would they call me a diva if I were a guy?

Usually it's the guys that don't follow you around, who you're attracted to!

If a man belittles a woman, it could become a lawsuit. If women belittle men, it's a Hallmark card.

If I ever play Hamlet, it'll be in a dress!

Woman: Did you know that women are smarter than men? Man: No, I didn't. Woman: See what I mean?

Women do not adore men; women are amused by men, we are a source of chuckles. That's because women are the makers of life, and we aren't. We will never be able to carry life within our bodies, never breast-feed. We get more than our share of loot and we are, for some reason, incredibly brave and funny and inventive, and yet our role in procreation basically is to get crazy and howl and spray our seed in all directions. •