Quotes About Gender

Feminism basically says both men and women are equal. It doesn't say women are better or men are stupid.

I think men and women are different - I am not saying better or worse, just different.

I own two basketball teams; one of men and women.

If the men in North do not mend their ways, then women will set them right.

Sex is biological, but gender is mental.

There's an ingrained mentality in our culture that women aren't as good. Other places, it doesn't exist.

Historically, and even now, women have been asked to give up on their dreams way more than men, mostly - because it's sort of like you're supposed to once you become a wife and mother. That's a generalization; that's what the mentality has been.

Men need to change their mentality. Talent has nothing to do with gender. If you're making a good film, you should always support that.

In a conversation with a male executive, he tells me that he doesn't hire women because 'it's not worth the trouble.' I mentally blacklist him.

You know what men are like, they never really grow up, do they? Do they ever catch us up mentally? I don't think so.

The Constitution did not mention women when it was first written, and it still doesn't.

The focus on male politicians extends beyond clothes, legs, and pretty faces. It's hard to find an article about former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich that doesn't mention his mop.

If you believe, as I do, that merit is equally distributed between the sexes, then any result that isn't around half and half should be troubling.

'The Iron Lady' is not a biopic. Phyllida Lloyd and Meryl Streep coined it 'King Lear for girls.'

When I was growing up, there were times I had to compete against boys in tae kwon do, and I'd show them right away that I wasn't someone to mess with.

A guy can try something and not be successful, and it's just about him. But when you're a person of color, when you're a woman, when you're a woman of color in particular, you mess it up, and other people get tarred by your decision-making. You never act alone.

I met my best friend in a sandbox when I was three, and he would grow up to be gay and loved to dress in my clothing any chance he got.

Arch Enemy is a female-fronted metal band, but so is Delain. They don't sound alike at all. The only thing they both are are metal bands, but the style within metal is so massively different that it doesn't really say much whether there's a girl singing or not. So it's really not so important.

As a female in metal, I'm going to get ostracized one way or another. So, if I'm going to have people hating me because I'm a female in metal, I might as well get people loving me because I'm a female in metal, too.

I agree that it's absurd to call a category of music 'female-fronted metal,' because if you look at Otep or Epica or Arch Enemy, we don't sound anything alike.

Women are more meticulous and methodical. But on the other hand, I feel if you go on a male-dominated set, which is mostly any other set, you don't ask how it was to be on a male-dominated set.

In 'Of Mice And Men' I play a straight dramatic role and I'm the only female in the play.

On one hand, you've got 'decent' men, and on the other you've got neanderthal misogynist bawbags - and the middle ground is what's disappearing.

Like, from my middle school dance... the boys were on one side, and the girls were on the other side, and we never interacted with each other.