Quotes About Gender

I think women secretly yearn for the return of John Wayne and don't even know it.

Most films these days are men's stories. Women are for add-on romance. That's very hard.

Why do women get paid less money? It doesn't make any sense.

In some countries, women aren't allowed to wear a swimsuit.

It is outrageous that at this time in our country, women are still not paid as much as men.

I think that in a country as successful as ours, we still have a long way to go in terms of parity for women, whether it's equal pay in the workforce or a whole host of other issues.

We need new cultural scripts. Women don't say what we want, and we don't say what we don't want. Unless we're reacting to a stranger, we generally aren't great at turning down someone's advance.

I feel like women have an easier time separating from their characters than men do.

The category "Women Poets" is bizarre and irrelevant. It's a subcategory of Poets, but there is not a "Men Poets" category.

Women do date better than men. They'll get prepared. Men just kind of show-up.

Women are more credulous than men.

It is probable that both in life and in art the values of a woman are not the values of a man.

Thus Mr. Lawrence, Mr. Douglas and Mr. Joyce partly spoil their books for women readers by their display of self-conscious virility; and Mr. Hemingway, but much less violently, follows suit.

Men don't hear women.

But sometimes the women writers will pitch something and I'll hear it, but the men will keep talking.

Is there discrimination against women? Yes. There's no denying that the old boys' network is alive and well. But there's also discrimination against men.

Just as women needed the help of the law to enter the workplace in the 20th century, men will need the help of the law to love their children in the 21st century.

Men have not stacked the decks against women.

Let's face it: men do a lot of things in the workplace that women just don't do.

The legal bias for special protection for women has begun to wreak havoc with the Constitution's guarantee of equal protection.

Men are socialized to trust women until evidence to the contrary surfaces; women are socialized to be suspicious of men until an individual man earns trust.

When men give lines, women learn to not trust men. When women wear makeup, men learn to not trust women. Male lines and female makeup are divorce training.

I would suggest that just as women who make it in the world of business need male business mentors, perhaps men who make it in the world of emotions will need female emotional mentors.

My wife's income allowed me to do what I really loved. I realized that women's liberation is men's liberation, too.