Quotes About Gender

I do my research the same as everyone else - I watch games relentlessly and try to be the best that I can be. It should be irrelevant whether I'm male or female, so as long as I work hard and try my best at it, then more we keep speaking about it, then we can eradicate it from the game.

Your gender becomes irrelevant when you are in a performance-based environment.

There are bad dudes. There are also irresponsible women.

I think I am really irreverent and I pretty much just talk to and about men the way men talk to and about women.

I'm a proud feminist, people get irritated with that word... but we need feminism in our country.

I find it particularly irritating, if I go to a games conference to speak about my work, that often it's presumed that I'm the marketing girl - that's annoying.

Women's courage is rather different from men's. The fact that women have to bring up children and look after husbands makes them braver at facing long-term issues, such as illness. Men are more immediately courageous. Lots of people are brave in battle.

Manbags are only acceptable if you are Italian, French, or gay.

When I started as a young chef, I was Italian, and I was a woman, and everyone else in New York was French and a man.

If you're a black woman at an Ivy League school, there is no free speech for me because they're already pissed that I'm there.

Guys with bigger boobs than I have walk around, and they're fine. If women were to do that, they could go to jail. That's totally wrong.

I truly believe that if I would make a bad film, I might be walking into director's jail and never out. And that I think is probably a little more true because I'm a woman.

Obviously, I don't mind if James looks at women. He's a man, women are hot.

I think it's about as likely Jane Austen was gay as that she was found out to be a man.

A lot of the characters I play on Japanese shows are actually acted in Japan by women. I don't know what that says about me.

What happened to equal opportunity? Not just in tennis, but everything. It's something that Billie Jean King fought for and she played Bobby Riggs for that, and beat him.

I wear girls' jeans because I've got girl legs.

I'd like to be able to get more girls to play guitar. I think with a girl playing electric guitar, sometimes it's seen a bit like a guy doing ballet. All the people I learned guitar from have been guys. There are some great female players, like Bonnie Raitt and Jennifer Batten, but very few.

Women have to compensate more in the personality department in order to get the things that men get. And they don't have as much leeway for being divas or jerks.

What I love about 'Mockingjay, Part 1' is that President Coin or Cressida could have easily been played by a man, and if you look at 'Interstellar,' the Anne Hathaway or Jessica Chastain roles would have been men years ago.

I don't know much about any of the Hasidim because the men won't talk to me because I'm a woman, and the women won't talk to me because, while I am Jewish, I'm not Hasidic.

In America and in most of the industrialized world, men are coming to be thought of by feminists in very much the same way that Jews were thought of by early Nazis. The comparison is overwhelmingly scary.

It's weird, because American films in the 1930s and '40s, particularly melodramas, were made for woman, from Bette Davis to Joan Crawford to Barbara Stanwyck to Katherine Hepburn, and for some reason we've taken a step backward in this sense.

I'm no Joan of Arc, but it's pretty revolutionary having a gender illusionist selling the illusion of beauty to females.