Quotes About Gender

As a kid, I wasn't allowed to have girl toys, but I would take my cousin's My Little Pony and smell it. That weird, synthetic, fruity-sweet smell - that's how I wanted to look. I wanted to look like this fabricated toy. I wanted to look like you could pull a string on my back, and I would say, like, six catchphrases.

Thinking through how to make sure we're bringing incredible toys and experiences and that to our girls and our boys at some point is really important for this country for the world in general.

I was nice and well-mannered because I was taught manners. I was very imaginative and quite adventurous. I was a tomboy, and I was always jealous that my older brother Hugh had bigger toy aeroplanes than me. I was always playing with boys' toys; I don't remember owning any dolls.

Often, women as little girls are sent off on a track for them to live a perfect life and be a perfect woman. Not for boys, who can be themselves with their mood and their temper.

I get asked to comment a lot on inequality in cycling, but for me it has never been an issue. Everything has always been equal on the track, and the male and female riders are all part of the same team, and we all mix freely.

If a female is good-looking, it totally decreases her credibility. Now she's not a good athlete - she's only good in these track meets because she's good-looking.

Why does a three-year-old, and it's usually boys, want to drive the tractor or have machinery and be in control of it? I don't know. Why wouldn't you ask to boil a kettle or something? Maybe you would, I dunno.

I was the first woman British commissioner, the first woman trade commissioner, so I am also proud to be the first woman High Representative.

I see myself as a comedian rather than a female comedian. I happen to be a woman, but I am a comedian by trade.

The organization that I joined when I went to work, the trade association called the Bureau of Advertising, became the first of many over the years in which I was the only woman.

In high school, I decided that all of my female friends were stupid and traded them for guy friends. I loved horror movies and heavy metal and used these interests to become a 'guys' girl.'

We don't separate out men and women working together in corporations.

And if all womankind banded together and took the male path, the world would turn into one huge brothel.

Just because you're a man doesn't mean that you can't raise your kid. I think that families should stay together, but if you are a single father, don't give up no matter what they say.

For me, personally, marriage is a man and a woman living together.

In language gender is particularly confusing. Why, please, should a table be male in German, female in French, and castrated in English?

It was all very well for an Englishman like Mr. Fogg to make the tour of the world with a carpet-bag; a lady could not be expected to travel comfortably under such conditions.

American movies are often very good at mining those great underlying myths that make films robustly travel across class, age, gender, culture.

Being a woman has only bothered me in climbing trees.

A woman is a branchy tree and man a singing wind; and from her branches carelessly he takes what he can find.

A family is a family not because of gender but because of values, like commitment, trust and love.

Birth is of course violent. Menstruation is violent. Trust me, if men's penises opened up once a month and shot blood, we'd be hearing about the violence of it.

You trust a thief when you trust a woman.

I would not trust a mouse to a woman if a man's judgment could be had.