Quotes About Gender

A woman has a different type of sensitivity than a man. Their perspective of right and wrong is different and their perspective of life is different. They're more idealistic. They have greater faith in people than men and they can add that to an all-male organization.

My films are about ideals that clash with the world. Every time it's a man in the lead, they have forgotten about the ideals. And every time it's a woman in the lead, they take the ideals all the way.

I never identified as a woman too much, because women aren't too different from men. But with all the #MeToo and Time's Up stuff, I thought about it differently.

The problem for all women is we're identified by how we look instead of by our heads and our hearts.

The role that I played in 'Gaana Bajaana' was that of a tomboyish girl who identified with the guys. There was nothing feminine about her.

I like guys, but I also identify as a guy - if that makes sense.

Of course, women are free to start any kind of company they want. But women sometimes identify different problems than men do and start different sorts of companies as a result.

I was assigned female at birth. My gender identify is non-binary.

In my own writing, I tend to be very honest, and my goal is to identify something people think but are afraid to say. That's not the general cultural expectation of women.

Being trans, I've grown up with the understanding that most women are born girls, yet some are born boys. And most men are born boys, yet some are born girls. And if you're ready for this, some people are born girls or boys and choose to identify outside our society's binary system, making them genderqueer.

I identify as a woman first, but I am also proudly trans.

Identifying with a character is one of the best parts of seeing a movie, but as women, we've had to train ourselves to experience the male journey.

This is the whole point of intersectionality - that it cannot only be a single-issue analysis of race and gender, and instead must consider the cumulative impact of various and simultaneous identities that compound the effects of discrimination.

We need a feminist movement in which the facts of the case trump the identities of the parties involved.

Around 2001, I started analyzing lesbians. I started to realize that even really butch-acting or -dressing women still had a strong female identity that I never had.

I never get to forget who I am, my gender identity.

The female characters in 'Peep Show' are not 'strong': they are idiots. As idiotic as the men.

Basically I wanted to be a male comedian; those were my idols.

I happen to have worked with male directors who don't understand women at all. Not at all. I'm flabbergasted by their ignorance.

All too often, girls are ignored because their challenges aren't thought to be as serious as those faced by boys.

I use my 'woman-ness' all the time, and it's not illegal.

Boys and boys' body image and clothes have become just as important an issue for boys as for girls.

I grew up in a world where stories and images were made and told by men. So I know this world very well. I am moved by this world.

The imaginative leap for me of writing for women is no more difficult than the one of writing for men. I've always wanted to have women well represented in the work that I've done because I've always been around them and around the way they look at the world.