Quotes About Gender

At Swarthmore, the Dean of Women was very opposed to women going into science or engineering - so opposed that if she couldn't talk a girl out of it, she just never had anything more to do with her for the four years she was there.

It's nice to be with a male energy as opposed to a female energy. It's very different.

I find that male directors are more interested in what the film looks like as opposed to what the film is about emotionally. My job is not to make the film look pretty, and I don't feel drawn to making myself look pretty within the film.

I don't usually say 'working mom' because I think all moms are working moms. I feel like that diminishes moms. People should say 'working dad' as opposed to working moms.

The corporate woman has been defined as the 'liberated woman' and I see that as the exact opposite. I think she now is more enslaved, maybe even more than the housewife was; because she's so out of her power, and imitating male power is not female power.

If you fall in love with someone gay and you're the opposite gender, it's not going to work.

I went from such a testosterone-driven show to the exact opposite, because 'Friends With Better Lives' is run by the ladies. I imagine it's close to what being married feels like.

I would consider myself one of the least misogynistic men in the country - if anything, just the opposite.

Of the opposite sex, I have the moustache and, in general, the face.

Most of the time when you're around the opposite sex, you kinda have to put on a show and not completely be yourself.

I've enjoyed the opposite sex a lot. Always have. Always will.

In Judaism, there are a lot of rules - everything from which fingernail you cut first to which side you sleep on in bed, to the way you get dressed in the morning, to actual ideas, like ideas about being chosen people or ideas about female/male and how to interact with people from the opposite sex.

I think we still have a long way to go in understanding that feminist and femininity are not opposites.

I'm still angry at so much - class, gender, society, the way we are constantly mentally coerced into behaving a certain way without us even knowing it. I feel so oppressed by the weight of it all that I just want to blow a hole in it all.

How clear can I put this? I am not denying female oppression; I am trying to stop it by calling for a more fluid masculinity.

To demand that people find their assigned narrow corridors of culture or ethnicity or gender, expecting people to forevermore stay in that lane, is to limit our human potential. It's oppressive.

Sexism is alive and well! We were saying this forty years ago. I'm an optimist, so I like to think we've progressed in some ways - in Australia, we get equal pay.

I didn't think I could play in a band. It just wasn't an option - all band members were men, and bandleaders were men.

I didn't know there were options like gender neutral or gender fluid. I later realized you could be a girl and dress like a guy.

Being a woman is an option, being trans is an option, and they're options that appeal to me. We need to listen to people - not labels, not semantics.

I would play just about any role, male or female, in the Anton Chekov play 'The Cherry Orchard,' which I love.

We still have so far to go as a country. People don't like to listen to women or take orders from them. I feel that a lot as a woman playing music.

There is no female mind. The brain is not an organ of sex. As well speak of a female liver.

Eventbrite is 50-50 male-female, and this has been accomplished organically.