Quotes About Gender

My mom always taught me to be sweet and polite and cross my legs because it's what the guys like. Actually, they like a raunchy girl once in a while.

But one look at the business of champagne tells a very different tale. In the boardrooms and wine cellars, champagne is a man's world. Today, there are only a handful of women in senior positions in the French wine industry, and only one of the elite and internationally renowned champagne houses known as the grandes marques is run by a woman—the house of Champagne Veuve Clicquot Ponsardin, headed since 2001 by Madame Cécile Bonnefond.

My aunt, thirty years a feminist, says, "A car is just an extension of your penis." Oh, I wish.

My mom said the only reason men are alive is for lawn care and vehicle maintenance.

The most important thing I've discovered is that I love her best when I'm not scared of her, when I'm not worrying myself crazy because she's a girl and I'm a boy and I don't understand all there is to understand about her, or because I'm afraid I haven't been a good enough [dad]. Fear gets in the way of love, and I've discovered that fear, and not hate, is the opposite of love.

a guitar store is the only place in the known universe where a guy will allow himself to shop like a woman

Mr. Smith yelled at the doctor, What have you done to my boy? He's not flesh and blood, he's aluminum alloy!" The doctor said gently, What I'm going to say will sound pretty wild. But you're not the father of this strange looking child. You see, there still is some question about the child's gender, but we think that its father is a microwave blender.

Plenty of Ugandan men believe that women shouldn't even compete in sports.

For many years Ugandan society was not positive about women in sport because they thought sport is masculine and while top sportswomen might be admired as great athletes, they were not admired as great family people because they were off the expected road,

Cowards and men do not cry the same, and a man can cry with dignity and not confuse the two. But when women get going, they can sometimes throw ashtrays with the velocity of Sandy Koufax, and it is best to leave the house.

Boys can't be stewardesses, and girls can't be pilots.

My problem is with the warped value system our culture has. Why is it that if you knife a woman in a movie it's PG, but if you swear at her it's rated R and if you make love to her it's rated X?

Jesus. Why'd you do that?" "That motherfucker slapped me!" "And you just kill him?" "You never motherfuckin' hit a woman!" "How could he have missed you dedication of feminine virtue, especially when you keep saying motherfucker?

I don't understand when you say I'm a man or I have a deep voice. I know I'm a female, so there's no question for me.

There's no question there needs to be higher-paying opportunities for women. It's not that it hasn't existed in certain categories: Certain women have made a lot of money... Jennifer Lawrence... is being paid a lot of money, rightfully so, for the franchises she's in.

There is no reason why women cannot be as good as the men.

You're going to get different kinds of animation for different kinds of audiences. Traditionally, adult animation has been for the young male audience. There's no reason why that should be.

At 14, I'd have given my left arm to be a boy: I thought I was horrible and that no-one would ever find me attractive.

Hardly nobody gets to live two genders in their life.

Women all think that if a guy likes you he will come and talk to you. That's nonsense - 'actually the opposite is true. The more attractive he finds you, the less likely it is he'll talk to you.

I wish men would stop telling me how they are not 'bad guys,' how they're 'an exception to the norm.'

We know taking care of an infant isn't just women's work - so why should maternity leave be the norm when paternity leave is the exception? There's no question that taking care of and bonding with a new baby is just as important and meaningful for dads as it is for moms.

When I was auditioning for drama school and looking for a monologue, it was all, 'I'm whinging about my period or my baby that has died or my boyfriend...' Why can't you have a normal girl, talking about ideas?

I couldn't imagine that I'd ever see men as normal people and I could never trust them. I couldn't bear any human connection with men.