Quotes About Gender

If you decide to go clubbing on a Friday night, and you're home before two A.M., you're not a man's man.

Whenever you define family as anything other than a man and a woman married together, you have just introduced an ethical nightmare.

It's much easier being a father to girls. Boys are just horrible. Then girls come into their own around 12 when they're nightmares too.

What I want is to be the highest grossing screenwriter, or to have some other woman be the highest grossing screenwriter, instead of being number nine on the list. That's my goal.

Ninety per cent of what we look at is the male gaze. They don't see themselves anymore.

I really think there's no difference between an art piece made by a man and one made by a woman. Is it a good art piece or a bad art piece? Of course, if you're female, you're maybe dealing with different issues.

My house was a place where there was no difference between being a boy or a girl.

Whether I am writing about a man or woman makes no difference in terms of difficulty.

Oh, I definitely feel that women are equal to men. No doubt about that.

Girls are infinitely more complicated than boys and women more than men. And there's no doubt about that. We just don't like to think about it. Certainly the men don't like to think about it.

Listen, I'm extremely lucky. I can't complain at all. I've had a very good go at it. But there is no doubt that as a woman it gets harder as you get older. I don't think it's so hard for men - that's the same in a lot of industries.

So the kind of boy I was, or that I was told to be, you were kind of this like half-gladiator, half-dude who, you know, was supposed to have as many girls as possible and work until your heart exploded, have no fear, you know.

And if it's a boy, I will be really nervous because I have no idea what to do with a boy because I am a girl and I have a girl!

We thought we were going to have a girl, so we had 15 girls' names lined up and a little boy popped out. We had no idea, and we had hardly any boys' names.

Men have no idea how much more difficult it is for women in the rock and roll industry, and while we are trying to give birth, breastfeed, all they do is have a good time.

I have no idea why, but I find that men make more of an impact on me in films than women - even very beautiful ones.

Whatever else it was about, the feminist movement had no interest in exploding the myth of the mysterious and wonderful world of business; it simply wanted in on it.

I have no memory of feeling strong and rugged at any point. I've been considering masculinity my whole life.

In '39, they had no problem with it. But today, there's a huge issue with a movie that has no male movie stars.

I have no problem with other women, but if I had played against ladies there would be a huge gap between the two of us.

Women only strike men as being mysterious

Between the ages of fourteen and twenty-four, foreplay changes from being something that boys want to do and girls don't, to something that women want and men can't be bothered with. ... The perfect match, if you ask me, is between the Cosmo woman and the fourteen-year old boy.

when she removed my hand from her chest for the one hundred thousandth time. Attack and defense, invasion and repulsion... it was as if breasts were little pieces of property that had been unlawfully annexed by the opposite sex - they were rightfully ours and we wanted them back.

They're all tossers, aren't they, men like Martin. They think women are like fucking laptops or whatever, like, my old one's knackered and anyway, you can get ones that are slimmer and do more stuff now.