Quotes About Gender

It was just really, really tough getting anything when you were a female. Basically, I just took advantage of everything I could. But when people are going to flat out tell you they're not going to hire anyone that's female, there's not much you can do about it.

In 1960, when I graduated from college, people told me a woman couldn't go to law school. And when I graduated from law school, people told me, 'Law firms won't hire you.'

I think there's a reason why some companies have such dismal records. It's not because they're clueless; it's because they systematically don't want to hire women.

Females get hired along procreative lines. After 40, we're kind of cooked.

If you exclude your talent base from the benefits of hiring and deploying and making women successful, you're going to do less well than businesses that do a better job on that front.

Huge studio movies are handed over to a man with less experience before they're handed over to a woman with less experience. That's a fact. But I think it's not just about men not hiring women: it's about women not hiring women, too.

Long historical books get written by women, but not contemporary experiments, which still seems to be a very male-dominated field.

Historically, men have a hard time getting onboard with feminism, but I think that's changing.

I'd always thought leadership was a CEO or president or person in a position of power. And honestly, to me, that meant a man - because that's what I was reading about in history books growing up.

Getting hit on by both genders is such a champagne problem.

That's the trouble with the women's game. Those women think they're men, and they go off hitting all over the place. They'd be better off if they'd played like women.

One reason women are left 'holding the baby' is anti-male discrimination in rights of maternity/paternity leave.

Any man who holds a woman back is not a man a woman can afford to be with.

We love to make sure all the boxes are checked - that we aren't just prepared but over-prepared before we raise our hand. It's that discipline that I love most about women, but it's also what holds us women back the most because by the time we raise our hand, that opportunity is often gone.

Denying the rights of women and girls is not only wrong in itself; it has a serious social and economic impact that holds us all back.

I don't believe that we - and this holds true for both genders - have as many choices as we seem to like to think.

Hollywood is the definition of sexual discrimination.

The art of what they call female impersonation, or the drag shows, really helped me to hone what type of woman I was.

Honestly, I usually have way more guy friends than girlfriends.

Being a female comic and getting a Comedy Central special is an honor because not a lot of women get that.

I was always being called upon to be an honorary boy alongside my brothers. I don't think I'd be a comic now if it hadn't been for that.

So, obviously, on International Women's Day, we are honoring the achievements of women, but gender equality and feminism cannot evolve in our humanity if we're not bringing our boys and men along.

Some Muslim children, both male and female, have little choice in who to marry, what to study, what their careers will be, and who they can socialise with. Their lives are constrained under the expectations of family 'honour.'

I know people started suspecting whether I was a woman or a man. All the honour I earned - I lost.