Quotes About Gender

I felt like one of the boys. My friends were boys. In school I related to boys.

I was never afraid to try female products. I didn't believe in those gender identities as it related to products.

We all live in a culture that is continually isolating feminine and masculine aspects, even when they're not related to people.

As far as girly-ness goes, I never wear makeup, if I've got zits on my face I just let them go. So I've always just related to guys on that level.

I've never been a straight guy, but it certainly seems that being one is exhausting. Every part of a straight guy's day is somehow related to him letting people know that he's straight.

With 'Women in Hollywood,' I didn't direct it, but I produced it, and what we did is followed the money of Hollywood and how that intersects with issues relating to women and, frankly, sexism.

I believe and support the feminist movement, but I am not generally interested in considering women's rights in relation to equality with men, or in a competition with men, but rather within their own rights and feminine space.

An all-girls school, when you have 800 girls from the age of 11 to 18, you would think, should be a prime opportunity to really inject a sense of confidence and power. And instead, we were very much taught in relation to men, in terms of what the brother school would think of us.

I'm inspired by Prince on every level; the whole androgynous thing, the ambiguity in his gender and his foundation - it's amazing. That's the way I think about clothes, in relation to my personality and my life. It's just an extension of who I am, like a song.

We talk race relations, gender politics, about what's actually happening here in America... Winning 'Drag Race,' has allowed me to amplify that.

The Greeks first identified the Amazons ethnographically, as a nation of men and women distinguished by something outstanding in their gender relations. Later, any ambivalence or anxiety that knowledge of this alternative gender-neutral culture evoked among Greeks was played out in their mythic narratives about martial women.

Being in a heterosexual relationship for a woman is always implicitly a little bit humiliating.

That is the great distinction between the sexes. Men see objects, women see the relationships between objects.

There was never a perception that I was second-class relative to boys. That gave me confidence.

I think women - relative to men - tend to feel that they have to do the household chores on top of everything else. This becomes even worse once you have kids. It's enough to have a full time job; a full time job plus a family is even more.

Where anger can be seen as a relative positive in a man, it is hardly ever perceived as anything other than a negative in a woman.

When I was born, some of our relatives came to our house and told my mother, 'Don't worry, next time you will have a son.'

Across society, the lion's share of caring responsibility - whether for children or elderly relatives - still falls on women.

Not only in our family, where our relatives keep putting us down, but even in this modern urbanized culture, we girls put our fellow girls down by judging them.

We should release films without revealing the director's name, as his or her gender would not be a barometer to watch those films.

Hindi film heroes never age but Hindi film heroines age fast.

I think hip-hop doesn't give women as much of a chance as it gives guys.

The minute you see a guy doing one of those Naomi Campbell catwalk-action kind of things, it falls apart. A lot of hips and the scissor walk? No! Men always need to be men.

Our job is quite strange in that we hire a coach, and therefore, we're the boss. But coaches tell us what to do, and I think some coaches might struggle with the idea of a girl being the boss and telling them, 'I don't want to see you now. I want to have some time to myself.'