Quotes About Gender

I don't like the word feminist. I don't think women trying to be men is feminism. I also don't believe in being outspoken for the sake of it, or just to prove a point.

If I was to go around as a white woman, a white man, an Asian woman, an Asian man... the world would just respond to you so differently because of your outward form, right?

When I first joined the DA's office, there weren't that many women. So there was a fair degree of sexism. Everybody kind of got over it when they saw you doing your job.

Every time you see a black romance, it's over-the-top. There always has to be extreme hostility between the sexes. He has to cheat. She has to show him how independently strong she is, not just as a woman but as a black woman.

I just think overall there's not as many female ministers than there are male ministers.

The only difference between men and women in science is that the women have the babies. This makes it more difficult for women in science but should not be seen as a barrier, for it is merely another challenge to be overcome.

We have to overcome the practice of male domination - even though it's changing, and changing in Liberia quite drastically.

Men and women's needs and desires overlap but go in different directions as well.

Trans women are conditioned to accept that society sees us as overly sexualized objects - even more so than how society already sexualizes cis women. It's almost as if they don't see us as fully developed human beings.

Feminism is just an overused term and people make too much noise about it for no reason.

When I was a kid and going to the movies I was overwhelmed by the way women were always second-class citizens in the film.

American movies are often very good at mining those great underlying myths that make films robustly travel across class, age, gender, culture.

Meditó durante la hora de Reafirmación de Género para Mujeres Maduras, ninguna de las cuales necesitaba que le enseñaran a reafirmarse a sí misma. De hecho se reafirmaban tan estupendamente que lo único que tenía que hacer Wilt era dejar que hablaran.

They weren't bad guys, just products of a society run by men and infused with rules to leave everyone sexually frustrated. Even in marriage sex in India is often just a brief, clumsy fumble in the dark, trying not to wake up grandma who's sleeping in the same bed.  

Men may or may not be better drivers than women, but they seem to die more often trying to prove that they are.

There has been a time on earth when poets had been young and dead and famous - and were men. But now the poet as the tragic child of grandeur and destiny had changed. The child of genius was a woman, now, and the man was gone.

You say that you fight for all womens rights but half of the babies aborted are women.

differences in behavior arise not because of differences in how men and women are, but in how men and women are treated. This is what the evidence shows: women are less likely to get useful feedback, their mistakes are judged more harshly and remembered longer, their behavior is scrutinized more carefully, and their colleagues are less likely to share vital information with them. When women speak, they're more likely to be interrupted or ignored.

How odd, then, that so much of the recent debate over getting more women into leadership positions has focused on encouraging them to mimic the maladaptive behaviours of ambitious men. Do you really want to ask women to replicate a broken model?

This book explores a central question: what if these two observations - that most leaders are bad and that most leaders are male - are casually linked?

the under-representation of women in leadership was not due to their lack of ability or motivation, but due to our inability to detect incompetence in men.

The result is a pathologic system that rewards men for their incompetence while punishing women for their competence.

Since we all want better leaders, we should not lower our standards when we select women, but we should raise them when we select men.

There's a major fault in Western society. It makes room for only one god, and in only one gender. There's no balance, no co-existence, no partnership.