Quotes About Gender

At the end of the day, no one asks a woman, 'Do you need a neck rub? Do you need a drink, honey?'

When actors do anti-hero roles, they are critically acclaimed. When heroines do negative roles, they are sidelined from the industry.

People think that women don't negotiate because they're not good negotiators, but that's not it. Women don't negotiate because it doesn't work as well for them. Women have to say, 'I really add a lot of value, and it's in your interest to pay me more.' I hate that advice, but I want to see women get ahead.

I feel like I'm neither a girl nor a boy. I don't feel like a man.

Sometimes I feel like both; sometimes I feel like neither. Sometimes I feel like something else completely. Gender-wise, I identify as a non-binary person, which means not male, not female.

A lot of people believe women can't do tech-y stuff. Becoming nerdy doesn't have to mean the short-haired guy, but can be the woman with very long, beautiful hair.

Since 1980, Republican shredding of the social safety net has disproportionately hit women, particularly women of colour.

I'm the only girl on The Food Network who grills - I have two bestselling grilling books. I try to really focus on what men and women can do outside together out on the grill. I think it's really fun to have men and women out there together, having fun, working and enjoying themselves.

At Ozon, salaries are evaluated every year based on market benchmarks which are gender neutral.

A lot of brands are saying they're going to make 'gender neutral' clothing. But clothing is gender neutral.

Today, it's about gender equality, not neutrality. Anyone who doesn't agree would be a bit of an idiot.

No matter how many feminist tracts you read, you never forget what boys like.

The distinction between male and female will never stop existing. We are not alike, and I wouldn't want to be.

It used to be so important to choose what you were. Gay or straight. Male or female. I think the new generation is more fluid.

When I first anchored in 1970, I had never seen a woman anchor a news show.

I can't wait for the day when it is no longer newsworthy that a woman is appointed editor of a newspaper.

If Nora Roberts were a man, she'd be on the cover of big business magazines as the next Charles Dickens.

There were three football fields next door to my house. I used to walk down to the boys' team, but eventually, I was told I was going to have to stop playing because I was a girl.

Why can't ladies like nice guys?

Just like there are nice guys and not-so-nice guys, there are nice women and the not-so-nice. The problem is that, in India films have only shown one side of women.

Just because you're a woman in gaming doesn't mean you're a nice person all the time necessarily.

Those of us in the industry who are still foolishly clinging to the idea that female films with women at the center are niche experiences - they are not. Audiences want to see them and, in fact, they earn money. The world is round, people.

We don't want to be our own niche. We're filmmakers like everybody. How many years in a row are we going to talk about the fact that we make films and we are women? Enough already.

Some Nickelodeon executives were worried about backing an animated action show with a female lead character. Conventional TV wisdom has it that girls will watch shows about boys, but boys won't watch shows about girls. During test screenings, though, boys said they didn't care that Korra was a girl. They just said she was awesome.