Quotes About Gender

Based on her experience with men, most assumed that when you talked to them about a problem or dilemma, they were expected to offer an opinion, even when all you wants was for them to listen.

with every passing year she found herself wondering more and more where all the good guys had gone. Or even if there really was such a thing anymore. Where were the guys who didn't expect you to sleep with them after only a date or two? Or guys who believed that picking up the check on a first date was a classy thing to do? Or even a guy with a somewhat decent job and plans for the future?

Do you see these hands? Jo said, holding them up. These were made for caressing handsome men and meant to be adorned with pretty nails and diamond rings. They're not made for paint rollers and paint splatter and that kind of manual labor.

I never felt the need for feminism. I never felt competition with men, which I really believed started the movement.

Feminism is the best movement that's happened in the 21st century, and it benefits everyone.

I didn't think of 'Thelma and Louise' as a feminist movie.

Why is it when a woman makes a film or a movie stars a female cast it is labeled women-centric because it is not white, male and middle-class men?

I have experienced sexism multiple times, and I'm sure I will a lot more.

I vaguely remember in the '90s when Calvin Klein started making unisex CK1. Don't worry about whether it's made for men or women. Listen, we all like to put mum's clothes on sometimes. What's important is that it feels right for you.

Men and women have different ideas of what constitutes tidiness. I tend to think it's about things being clean, but my mum and girlfriend are more about how things look.

When I was really young, my mum used to make my clothes - I hated that. I liked the way boys dressed - I still do. I wanted to wear what they wore.

I don't like cutting my hair. I did that once, and my mum thought I was a boy.

Like with me, I just see my mum and dad as parents - I don't see my dad individually as a man, my mum individually as a woman.

When I was growing up, Mum and Dad were both equal: they both worked, they both cooked, they both looked after us. So I wouldn't expect my husband to be any different.

I am bouncing back despite being a girl from Mumbai who didn't work for two years. A lot of others girls in the same situation would have had to walk away from the industry.

I'm a lot girlier than the roles that I play. I joke with Tricia Helfer all the time that she's my muscle.

I look like what we have taught society a lesbian looks like. I just do. I have the short hair. I got the muscles.

I used to think I was a gay man with this idea of a muse in my head, like a woman that I thought was inspirational or aspirational. But the woman was actually me.

In 'Night At The Museum 3,' with Ben Stiller, I was only given a couple of lines. If you are in guys' comedies, it's not like you are ever going to just get handed some jokes and a brilliant role.

I think it's hard when you're a woman because the music industry is way more masculine than feminine, so you have to make your own space and fight for it.

I've worked with many powerful men in the music industry.

I remember seeing the first Astaire-Rogers musical on television, and I couldn't believe how beautiful it was. It dawned on me that you don't have to wear a cowboy hat to be a man.

There are so many times that, as a woman in the music industry, you're asked questions no male musician would ever be asked.

Nobody asks me about what male musicians I think about; I only ever get asked about females.