Quotes About Gender

Years ago I played different female roles in 'Grand Indian Comedy Show,' but as it was not as popular show as 'TKSS' and 'CNWK,' it never got noticed.

I started really noticing, more and more, how men will plagiarize and take credit for women's work... I've noticed that it just happens a lot.

There's this notion of women's bodies being out of control - so out of control that men don't understand it at all.

I'm a novelist, and I'm a woman, and I'm considered to be a serious author whether I like it or not.

I'm not an especially male novelist, but I think men are better at writing about men, and the same is true for women. Reading Saul Bellow is a revelation, but he can't write women. There are exceptions, like Marilynne Robinson's 'Gilead,' but generally, I think it's true.

I write novels about women, except for one: 'Rococo', about a man, a New Jersey decorator. But even that book had a woman on the cover.

I don't think I'm interested in writing women's novels anymore.

If there's anything Trollope novels always take seriously, it is money - how it flows from one character to another, how it is managed, who has it, who deserves it, and what it means to a character, male or female.

I would really love to win one of the men's championships and throw a complete curve ball, like, out of nowhere.

I felt I had to choose between being pretty or smart or athletic, and stick to it because if you try to do more than one, you have nowhere to belong. Then music was a boy's world and a lot of times men assumed I didn't know what I was doing because I was young and female.

My law school class in the late 1950s numbered over 500. That class included less than 10 women.

Math is the great equalizer. If you can do the numbers, the boys have to respect you.

I got kicked out of Catholic school, by the way, because I was too feminine. I was too feminine and I had a crush on this boy named Anthony and the nuns were not having it.

Girls can be anything they want to be. Why be a nurse, for example, when you can be a doctor?

My dad is a nurse midwife, one of about only 50 male midwives in the U.S., I think.

As a nurse, I earned around 60% of what my white male counterparts in the same position earned.

There is still the feeling that women's writing is a lesser class of writing, that what goes on in the nursery or the bedroom is not as important as what goes on in the battlefield, that what women know about is a less category of knowledge.

In my generation, except for a few people who'd gone into banking or nursing or something like that, middle-class women didn't have careers. You were to marry and have children and be a nice mother. You didn't go out and do anything. I found that I got restless.

A woman can't teach a man how to be a man. But she can teach you how to nurture, how to care, how to love, and how to give.

For the men, they are more of a risk taker, and for the women, they are more nurturing and more details. So the combination of the men and women is very good for business.

Women shouldn't be expected to only play nurturing, kind caretakers.

For me, Barack Obama's election was a milestone of the most extraordinary kind. On the day he was elected I felt such hope in my heart. I thought we were seeing the beginning of a new era of equal opportunity across race and gender such as America had never known before.

I went to a technology conference in Germany, and there were these beautiful, model-like women standing there in front of the products. I asked a question, and she had no clue what the product was. She had to call someone from the back to explain it to me. To me, that's using a woman as an object. To me, that's totally wrong.

It will not work to keep asking men to change. Many have no real objective to do so. There's no reward for them. Why should they change? They're doing well inside the halls of coding.