Quotes About Gender

I'm really pleased that women like me as well as men. My fanbase is quite evenly split.

Feminists of my mother's generation argued that both mom and dad should work a little less and each do some of the household chores. My parents, for example, split everything 50/50. Even though my father is a terrible cook, he still made dinner exactly half the time.

Italian girls are famous for being snobby and expecting men to make the first move. In America, if I don't make eye contact, the guys won't come over and talk. American girls just go for it. You men are spoiled.

My grandmother spoiled my father rotten, and he grew up expecting women to do whatever he wanted. When he married my beautiful mother, Elsa, he expected her to give up her career as a champion ballroom dancer and become a good wife and mother, which she dutifully did.

If you are a 19-year-old woman, there are very specific things that directors and the people in positions of power in the industry - who tend to be older men - are going to want you to be and do. They are not going to want some chatty, difficult, slightly spoilt girl.

Meryl Streep spoke about roles drying up. If that happened to her, can you imagine our plight? This is the reality of women performers all over the world.

The roles I used to be cast for were typically objectified women, so I was always being shown or spoken about through the lens of the guy.

A lot of men I have spoken to have said it's very confusing being a modern man. You want to be sensitive but also strong. You can't win. It's really hard trying to be both.

When we got married, we agreed on a boy for me, and a girl for you. Mine's upstairs sleeping. Good luck with yours!

Like some people are bad at math, some people are bad at talking to women. And some at both, now that's luck I guess.

To the moralist prostitution does not consist so much in the fact that the woman sells her body, but rather that she sells it out of wedlock.

Prostitutes don't sell their bodies, they rent their bodies. Housewives sell their bodies when they get married.

Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.

A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke.

The Equal Rights Amendment would "turn holy wedlock into holy deadlock."

The sum and substance of female education in America, as in England, is training women to consider marriage as the sole object in life, and to pretend that they do not think so.

To a man, marriage means giving up four out of five of the chiffonier drawers; to a woman, giving up four out of five of her opinions.

(When asked who wore the pants in his house:) I do, and I also wash and iron them.

A man leads with his mind while a woman leads with her heart.

I know not which lives more unnatural lives, obeying husbands, or commanding wives.

Philosophers have a long tradition of marrying stupid women, from Socrates on. They think it clever.

The clearest explanation for the failure of any marriage is that the two people are incompatible; that is, that one is male and the other female.

Never marry a girl named 'Marie' who used to be known as 'Murray'.

It is well within the order of things That man should listen when his mate sings; But the true male never yet walked Who liked to listen when his mate talked.