Quotes About Gender

Why do men like intelligent women? Because opposites attract.

I have always found the female of the human species many times more difficult to understand than the male.

I have often felt that I would find it more complicated, troublesome and unpleasant to ascertain the feelings by which a woman lives than to plumb the innermost thoughts of an earthworm.

There are enough women to do the childbearing and the childrearing. I know of none who can write my books.

Many women have been successful at breaking the glass ceiling only to find a layer of men.

Men are intimidated by smart women. They make us want to kick up our game more.

Russian men have a saying: "Women are like buses..." That's it.

Women don't paint very well. It's a fact. There are, of course, exceptions. Agnes Martin or, from the past, Paula Modersohn-Becker.

Intelligent women always marry fools

British women can't cook.

Nature intended women to be our slaves. They are our property.

I think women rule the world and that no man has ever done anything that a woman either hasn't allowed him to do or encouraged him to do.

Do you not know I am a woman? when I think, I must speak.

Women are never at ease when they have ideas.

I never intended to become a data head. I could never have predicted it would play such an important role in my life. Yet here we are: My Institute on Gender in Media has sponsored the largest amount of research ever done on gender depictions in media, covering a 20-year-plus span.

At the end of the day, if we don't show female sports on TV, how are sponsors going to want to sponsor women? And if we don't support the women, how do you expect us to get results? It's a bit of a catch-22.

It's all very well to talk about how it would be great to have a woman driver, a woman with sponsors and marketing, that's all great but to get into that drive you have to perform. That's what I realized early on when I got into Formula One.

It's difficult because the men's game is so big and attracts so much money and sponsorship, and so it's always going to take priority.

I think we all, as drivers, come to the table with a package. It's either your speed and raw talent, your sponsorship money, your nationality. For me, one of my unique selling points is my gender, without a doubt.

I don't think you have to be this macho man all the time, just because you play sport.

Football is the biggest sport in Norway for girls and has been for years, but at the same time, girls don't have the same opportunities as the boys.

I got into sports because that was a way to prove your masculinity. I was good at it.

Some boys accepted me, some didn't. And my family had comments made to them. Brazil is still a very macho society, and sports are mainly for boys, so people would say to them: 'What is this girl doing? Why is she always out there in the soccer games with the boys?'

We still have a long way to go. Because the reality is that I'm 52-years-old. And how many 55 to 60-year-old women do you see in sports broadcasting? How many? I see a lot of 60-year-old men broadcasting. The physical appearance and natural aging of all the men doing this job don't matter.