Quotes About Gender

I always go with the dictionary definition of feminism, which is just social, political and economic equality for women.

Instead of focusing on men and focusing on what we can do to prop them up, people seem really incredibly focused on the fact that women are doing well and maybe that's not such a good thing.

Obviously Feministing is kind of a women's space in a certain way, even though we have a lot of male readership and people who don't identify as women.

The reason men rule is because women let them.

The whole issue of how women's management styles are viewed is an incredibly interesting subject.

Because so many rooms are run by men they're just used to women being the "that" - to be adored and dreamed about.

Many women have earned titles, Your Grace. It doesn't seem to have been a factor in whether or not they actually received them.

In my long, long years toiling around the publishing industry, I've found that women simply don't stick to the writing with the same fervor that men do.

Punk allowed women to stop looking feminine. Oh, the relief.

Occasionally, some sitcoms still stereotype women - the old dragon or the dolly bird - but on the whole we've moved away from that.

Suffice to say, many women find their first appearance on a comedy panel show to be their last. Second chances seem to be given less often to the female of the species.

There are comics who treat women fairly appallingly. But I can be great friends with them because I don't tend to do that ticking of boxes: it can make life too simplistic.

A lot of women get out of the business because it's so not family-friendly. And so women that could be in there making good women-roles don't do it, 'cause they're smart and get out.

Public depictions of women still tend to remain rigid and narrow - about the size of a coffin, say.

Men are rarely questioned on their spouses or their partners, and nor should they be. And the question to ask is why is this done to women?

Some women take up the law and become lawyers. Other women lay down the law and become wives.

I got to L.A. in 2000, when we were coming off the '90s: women looked like men and the men all looked like women.

We're really up against it, we poor women: A bachelor's a hard thing to convert

When toward the Devil's Hose we tread, Woman's a thousand steps behind. [Ger., Denn geht es zu des Bosen Haus Das Weib hat tausend Schritt voraus.]

I don't make a distinction between men and women. To me they are just people.

Gender relations are a sad story of men talking trash about women all over the world.

Alaska decided to go help Dolores with dinner. She said that it was sexist to leave the cooking to the women, but better to have good sexist food than crappy boy-prepared food.

I feel very angry when I think of brilliant, or even interesting, women whose minds are wasted on a home. Better have an affair. It isn't permanent and you keep your job.

Though women have small force to overcome men by reason; yet have they good fortune to undermine them by policy.