Quotes About Gender

I identify as a feminist but subscribe to the pretty basic definition of a feminist as 'someone who seeks equality between the sexes.'

Average male pay is higher than average female pay for a simple reason. Despite decades of enforced equality, women still have babies, and men still don't. So women who wish to spend any substantial time at all with their own offspring will fall behind in their careers, and their earnings will be less.

We need to encourage more women to write roles for other women. The great substantive roles aren't being written for women and aren't being produced and directed by women.

One of the things that women really excel at is reading and reacting to subtle cues. We've always had to do that because men don't have to.

Publishers often push women in a subtle way to focus on fantasy and paranormal writing.

When girls bully, it's very subtle, and you can't define it. At least with boys, the bullying is usually explicit, and you can deal with it. It's psychological with girls.

I'd love to find a lifelong female film editor as Scorsese has with Thelma Schoonmaker. I think women are probably, without generalising, sensitive to subtle things as an editor.

Comedy is a man's art form. It pretty much came from a time, post-World War II really - the 1950s are not really known for the subtle expressions of feminine life.

I always say that drag queens are like an exaggeration of women, and I'm like an exaggeration of drag queens. People ask, 'Why do you do your makeup so differently?' and I always say, 'Well, in a subversive art form, ask yourself why so many drag queens do their makeup exactly the same.' If you can do anything, why does everybody do the same thing?

There are some women I definitely would not want to succeed me... but a man like David Souter, that would be great.

There is this idea that you have to play heroines or women who succeed.

The most important factor in determining whether you will succeed isn't your gender - it's you.

We love men. We just don't want to see them naked.

Men are mystifying creatures. For instance why do all men think their penis is a panacea for all the world's problems?

Studies have shown that women who are perceived as more attractive make 5 percent more at work and even get higher grades in school.

Les vertus héroïques sont plutôt estimées par des hommes, alors que les vertus quotidiennes sont le fait autant, sinon plus, de femmes (mais il est vrai que les qualités physiques requises sont différentes ici et là).

Women are regarded as upholding the traditions by conforming to them; men on the other hand uphold traditions by enforcing them—not upon themselves but upon women.

sound and fury of these "my culture is better than your culture" conflicts between male-dominated colonial governments and male-dominated Third-World nationalist movements often served to obscure the fact that women were clearly second-class citizens in all these cultural contexts.

What terrible shame overcomes me when I discover the male or female in myself!

How good I would feel if I could be something that called itself neither man nor woman.

T]he full and complete development of a country, the welfare of the world and the cause of peace require the maximum participation of women on equal terms with men in all fields." [ Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (1979)]

When a man talks dirty to a woman, it's sexual harassment. When a woman talks dirty to a man, it's $3.95 a minute.

A woman worries about the future until she gets a husband, while a man never worries about the future until he gets a wife.

Sure God created man before woman. But then you always make a rough draft before the final masterpiece.