Quotes About Gender

Sometimes I make songs about girls, and I say 'he,' or I'll make songs about guys, and I say 'she,' or sometimes they're exactly what they're about. I feel like it just allows me to get a lot more perspective.

I'm not naive to the fact that my gender has at times helped me. Employers are now thinking, 'Let's get perspectives that are different than the ones we have.'

Because I'm a woman, and I'm petite and blonde, you wouldn't believe how often I'm asked to model the clothes.

As I began to grow, my family thought my obsessive interest in girly things was just a normal developmental phase.

The antagonisms between men and women express themselves in the most delicate phase of their life together - in their sexual relationship.

I changed Philip's nappies when he was a baby and did my fair share of getting up and rocking him to sleep. Bringing up a little girl will be a different experience for me.

When you're riding around with the fellas, you want to listen to something real masculine, like 'Boyz-in-the-Hood.' How would it look riding around and listening to something wimpy like 'I Need Love' or that phony stuff Jazzy Jeff does?

Kate Moss is always photographed without her top on, but she doesn't get any grief. Why me?

There were some advantages to being a woman photographer. I think women have more empathy with the subject.

I didn't know a single female photographer who covered conflict who even had a boyfriend, much less a husband or a baby.

I'm probably a guy's girl, although I hate that phrase. I tend to have more close male friends than I do female friends, and I always have. I would say that of my 10 close friends, seven are men.

When a man comments on your physical appearance, the effect is often just to distract from your professional ability.

I keep myself safe both physically and emotionally in my working environment by 'being one of the boys.' In my head, subconsciously, that was my safe place.

In abortion, the person who is massacred, physically and morally, is the woman.

Not only am I physically and emotionally attracted to women, I also wonder what being a woman would be like.

If you go for an audition, you have a character description, and for the women, it's always about being beautiful, sexy. And for the men it's more about the character than how he appears physically. That annoys me.

This idea that males are physically aggressive and females are not has distinct drawbacks for both sexes.

As a woman, I have access to hit women in a way that men might not be able to hit them with jokes. I don't mean physically hit. But you know, because I'm a woman, I can say things about women because I know what it's like to be a woman, if that makes any sense.

The noble position of motherhood aside, our general opinion about women is that, while taking into account their specific needs, it should be made possible for them to take on every role, including the jobs of physician, military officer, judge and president of a country.

In the past, there was active discrimination against women in science. That has now gone, and although there are residual effects, these are not enough to account for the small numbers of women, particularly in mathematics and physics.

There are some countries where there is not an issue with women in physics. Malaysia, for example, has physics departments where 60 per cent of undergraduates are female, and France and Italy are strong, too. It is not about ability but more about what the culture says is appropriate.

When I was in 7th grade, we were all given an exam. It was science and math, and the boys who did well were skipped ahead so that when they got to be juniors or seniors in high school they would be able to go to the local community college and take calculus and physics there. And I wasn't skipped ahead.

I was nearly as far behind in calculus as I was in physics. But I wasn't the only woman in the class, so I felt more comfortable asking questions.

I think for a long time we were just 10 percent women in physics, and so obviously people can see things in the way they've always been seen.