Quotes About Gender

One of the things I really like about Ford's films is how there is always a focus on the way characters live, and not just the male heroes.

One of the things I haven't been ready for is how male-dominated the music industry is. I just didn't have a clue.

When only one or two percent of filmmakers are female, you can't help but have some kind of bias.

I think that there are a lot of male writers and directors in Hollywood, and a lot of the female characters you do see are really one-dimensional, but I think that's changing more and more as there are more women taking control in Hollywood.

It's very unmanly to change yourself for others. Be comfortable with oneself. There have been feminist movements but there's never been a male one.

I think maybe the only time I think of being a woman... is being on the road and making sure my musicians are fed and they sleep. 'Are you OK? Do you need some water? Are you hungry? Can I get you a cookie?' I'm not sure all the men bandleaders do that.

The only time it gets weird is which bathroom do I go into sometimes.

There were not a lot of women in the theater department - it was really run by men, and so the message was that women can be onstage, but women can't really be backstage.

Girl bands still do just copy the way men move onstage. To me, that is so backwards, so un-radical.

Theatre comes alive when someone cross-dresses onstage.

That's part of what made me interested in theater as a kid. It made it acceptable to be a man for an hour onstage.

I got paid the same as my male counterpart grad students and onward.

I became conscious in later life that I had been given an education that enabled me to do all kinds of jobs, but often, jobs weren't open to me.

I think drag helps move us in the direction of loosening up the man/woman binary. The idea that you're one, or the other, it's false. The more that as a society we become a little looser, more open to laugh about gender, that's the direction the world needs to go in.

When I was opening my first bank account, the person at the counter thought I was a girl.

I've become aware of being in a very male-dominated industry where a door opens and it's like, 'Oh hello, it's 12 men and me. Again.'

There are a lot of funny women in my life. I never understand those movies where there's eight funny guys and two women who don't have any opinion or humour.

It doesn't help to just get women's opinions and then turn them over to an all-white-male engineering team.

I think there's just incredible amounts of labeling generally and as woman, as a man, as a gay man, as a mother, as a father, there's just a sense that there's opinions everywhere.

Women treat us [men] like humanity treats gods—they worship us and keep bothering us to do something for them.

If a woman cannot make her mistakes charming, she is only a female.

No woman should have a memory. Memory in a woman is the beginning of dowdiness. One can always tell from a woman's bonnet whether she has got a memory or not.

Women represent the triumph of matter over mind, just as men represent the triumph of mind over morals.

Women are a decorative sex. They never have anything to say, but they say it charmingly.