Quotes About Gender

People ask me why I'm so hard on men. It's because they've gotten a really easy ride. And it's not that I think women should take over the world. But I do think it should be 50/50.

Men are never brave, are they?

Men's stories are seen as universal, women's as particular. What women are up against is the battle to not be marginalized.

I find most men don't like a lot of makeup.

Even after forty years of directing, shooting and editing films, when I collaborate with a male partner, people still perceive the man as the primary filmmaker.

I don't think the public here buy this idea that women and men speak different comedic languages.

For some reason, I find that in the course of my career I've worked with more women than most men have.

Most parts in comedy, they're not really written for men. They're written for, like, these boy-men.

Men in high heels? That's a prosthesis. But I sympathise. Women have these giant heels. They get taller and taller. The men need help. But a man in heels is ridiculous.

My drawing for women is really curvy. My drawings for men are actually quite angular.

Kind of paradoxically, men are very open minded or very even handed with their votes of women.

When I was a little girl - well, like, a teenager - I wanted to be Sam Jackson. I always wanted to be men.

Men never believe a woman can do anything.

'Man up' is a sexist term that should be retired along with all the other gender-based imperious imperatives.

I couldn't describe how little interest I have in men. Or I could - but I don't think that it would be appropriate.

I think that every man is afraid of his wife.

It's much worse to see a woman drunk than a man: I don't know quite why this is true but it just is. Don't ever be responsible for it.

Men. <...> They're idiots. It's like they all take a vow of stupidity or something.

I think that I was just on the cusp of the generation that was beginning to really challenge some of the assumptions about the role of women and the role of men on campus.

If logic was anything, all men would ride sidesaddles.

Once a man is on hand, a woman tends to stop believing in her own beliefs

According to a new study, most men would like women to occasionally pick up the check. The study also found that most women would occasionally like to be paid as much as men for doing the same job.

Self help books are pointless. Here's something for you... Men are from Mars, women are from Venus, and self help books are from Uranus.

In order for a man to be truly evil, he must be a woman.