Quotes About Gender

In politics, during my organisational roles, I have never seen gender bias within my organisation.

I confused gender identity with sexual orientation. Your gender identity is about who you are, how you feel, the sex that you feel yourself to be. Sexual orientation is who you're attracted to.

The reality is is that Congress is a very male-gendered oriented institution. Out of the, you know, more than 10,000 people who've ever been elected to Congress, you know, only about 250 of them have ever been women.

There are those who believe that the existence of gender differences at very early ages is evidence that these differences are biological or generic in origin.

From its beginning, fan fiction has been written mostly by women. Originally, this was because of a dearth of interesting female characters in conventional sci-fi.

I originally thought I'd grow up to be a woman. I didn't question that when I was little.

There is a misconception in our society that only women have to follow the norms of wearing a mangalsutra after marriage. Actually there are a few ornaments which even men are expected to wear after marriage.

I AM a male chauvinist. Who's been saying otherwise?

Every minister knows it's harder to get the guys to church than the women. We ought to be asking why this is.

Women, nowhere in the world, have the kind of important position in society in the amount that they ought to have.

Everything is harder for a woman in every kind of aspect and that's why we try to empower women with our music, our image and everything we stand for.

In our world marriage was the best option for any woman. No girl ever chose to have a career unless she couldn't get a man. It was very much a tertiary life.

My dear dad always tried to introduce me to children of his friends, but I just never took to them. Those were the people we were shoved with at school dances, usually Eton boys because it was the cleverest boys' school, and ours was supposed to be the cleverest girls' school.

A lot of women will tell you, especially if they're ambitious, driven, successful, that it is hard to find men who are secure. There's a lot of insecure dudes out here.

Feminists have confused opportunity with outcome.

Differences in racial outcomes are not the same thing as institutional racism any more than the fact that far more men than women are locked up is evidence of institutional sexism.

Maybe I'm outdated in thinking this, but because I'm a young black woman and don't see very many being the lead in a film, I have this fear: 'Will I be working?'

You have an ideal of masculinity to live up to, and then there's everything else on top. You have to be a perfect husband. You have to be in shape. Apart from alcohol and exercise, there are very few outlets for men.

American men, as a group, seem to be interested in only two things, money and breasts. It seems a very narrow outlook.

There are a lot of women screenwriters, but they are obviously outnumbered by men. And it still is a very much male-dominated industry.

They are more than men at the outset of their battles; at the end they are less than the women.

All growing up, the outside world wants to tell you what you can and cannot do as a female - what sports are acceptable, what sports are appropriate, what is appropriate to study, what is appropriate to say. But luckily, I have a strong family, and my mom is the most amazing mom in the world. She never let me worry about biases.

The consequences for failure are very different if you're a woman or a person of color than they are if you're a guy. If you're a guy who makes a mistake, you get a second chance. Often, for those of us who are outsiders, we make a mistake, and that's the end of the conversation.

The 'X-Men' stories are the stories of outsiders: people who don't fit into normal society and are ostracised; it's a metaphor for gender, race, or sexual orientation.