Quotes About Gender

'Arnold Layne' just happens to dig dressing up in women's clothing. A lot of people do - so let's face up to reality.

Whether you are a man or a woman, when you're loved, you look good and are happier.

Though women begin their lives more fulfilled than men, as they age, they gradually become less happy. Men, in contrast, get happier as they get older.

Non-consensual, sexual advances are not the same as flirtatious comments from a creepy dude. The degree of harassment matters.

There's so many careers that didn't happen because women are like, 'I can't deal with this harassment. I'm going to leave this industry.'

I've been speaking out about harassment and gender disparity for years.

When women are told that sexual harassment is 'part of the job' or when assistants of both sexes enable harassing behavior, they have bought into the culture that says such behavior is not just permissible, it is a desirable expression of power.

It is frustrating that people have a hard time telling other female stories besides, 'Is she going to get the guy?'

I think if there's anything 2016 has taught me, it's that we have a real hard time with women in our society; we have a hard time with the feminine.

The entire issue is that women bear a disproportionate share of the hard work. Birthing, carrying, the whole thing - it's hard work.

When you're behind, you have to work harder. Women have had to work harder to get ahead, and now they are in a place where they are surpassing men.

I feel like it's harder to get women to show up for movies.

As intense as our work is, I try my hardest to live my life so that people in my office feel they can work at 'Frontline' and be parents if they choose to. This goes for the men as well.

I so find Harold Pinter and David Mamet's writing to be exciting, and obviously there aren't that many female - at least with Mamet, there aren't that many good female roles. But I always thought it would be interesting to play one of the guy roles.

Being a female guitar player back in school wasn't great, and I had to change schools so many times. The male drummers and bass players thought it was cool, but male guitar players said, 'It's a guy's thing. You should be doing something else, like playing the harp.'

How you look has become ridiculously disproportionate to what you do. Critics are more harsh on female presenters.

For the longest time, I just felt like I had to be really, really harsh to be taken seriously as a CEO.

I hate that when they call me a transvestite.

I always hated that clothing was gendered when I was young.

My wife always hates when I go, 'I just don't love female action movies.' I don't know why. I'll watch them, but I don't run to go and see them.

When I first became a lawyer, only 2% of the bar was women. People would always think I was a secretary. In those days, professional women in the business world wore hats. So I started wearing hats.

We're not hard-core feminists. We like men and we like to have fun with them. But we also want men to think about females in different ways.

When I first knew I was having children, I thought I wanted boys, but then I thought I'd be better with girls. I'm quite sensitive, and you get more cuddles with girls. And they like their dads.

I've endlessly found myself in rooms of men and had the experience of feeling I wasn't being heard. It's a confidence thing.