Quotes About Gender

Why categorise crime as a gender issue? Why should a man or woman be more inclined to believe in certain basic values?

For some reason, when I think feminism, I think, like, 'Well, you can't include men if you're talking about feminism and being a feminist,' so I get a little bit muddled. I find it to be a bit grey. Then if you say you are not a feminist, that means that you're not pro-woman!

'The Hobbit' didn't include female characters at all and was a very linear story, a book for children, really.

Non-binary is a term used by some people, myself included, who feel that their gender identity falls outside the tradition boxes of man or woman.

Gender equality has long been at the forefront of my mind, and I think the Me Too movement has elevated many men's consciousness, my own included, about how to be better allies.

Maybe if everybody in leadership was a woman, you might not get into the conflicts in the first place. But if you watch the women who have made it to the top, they haven't exactly been non-aggressive - including me.

I don't think feminism is about the exclusion of men but their inclusion... we must face and address those issues, especially to include younger men and boys.

The problem is with men. I know I shouldn't say this, but they've shrouded and hidden women to hide their incompetence.

I seek to cast an incorruptible gaze on women, especially where they are the accomplices of men.

'Feminism' is such an incredibly awkward word for us these days, isn't it? Not to be feminist would be bizarre, wouldn't it?

In some instances, a gender imbalance is indeed a manifestation of sexism. In others, it is not.

I personally think the male and female roles have changed dramatically in the past few decades. Men are no longer the breadwinners. Financial independence for a woman is a huge thing.

What's important is that I do my job really well, that I build great products and that I'm a great leader. All those things matter independent of gender. But I do think there's a responsibility for me to support other women at Google.

In India, I'm always 'Aruna Roy's husband.'

It's estimated that one million girls in India 'disappear' every year.

I've run into more discrimination as a woman than as an Indian.

Yet feminism has never killed anyone. Machismo, it kills every day.

Maintenant que nous (les femmes) pouvons devenir parfois, dans certains pays et dans certaines circonstances, des Hommes comme les autres, ce caractère qu'on croyait inné apparaît pour ce qu'il est : un conditionnement imposé.

We need to cure ourselves of being women. Not of being born women but of being brought up as women in a man's world, of going through each stage and each act of our lives with men's eyes and with men's criteria. And we'll never bring about this cure by continuing to listen to what these men gave to say in our name or for our good.

Man is potentially a son, and woman is potentially a mother; woman depends on the dependence of man. The spinster, if pathetic at all, is pathetic because she has no one to look after, not because there is no one to look after her. Bear in mind that the conventional spinster keeps a canary as a substitute for a husband.

I want to be......A prince......Not a Princess! I don't want to be protected! When I'm a prince I'll do the protecting!

Men survey women before treating them. Consequently how a woman appears to a man can determine how she will be treated.

To be born a woman has been to be born, within an allotted and confined space, into the keeping of men.

The multitude will hardly believe the excessive force of education, and in the difference of modesty between men and women, ascribe that to nature, which is altogether owing to early instruction: Miss is scarce three years old, but she's spoke to every day to hide her leg, and rebuked in good earnest if she shows it; whilst little Master at the same age is bid to take up his coats, and piss like a man.