Quotes About Gender

Drunk wi' power," he remarked disapprovingly to the ceiling. "Verra unwomanly attitude, that.

Lying on the floor, with the carved panels of the ceiling flickering dimly above, I found myself thinking that I had always heretofore assumed that the tendency of eighteenth-century ladies to swoon was due to tight stays; now I rather thought it might be due to the idiocy of eighteenth-century men.

Men go where they will, they do as they must; it is not a woman's part to bid them stay, nor yet to reproach them for being what they are—or for not coming back.

I know that when I was a kid, and I was reading whatever I could get my hands on, I didn't associate myself with the girl characters.

A lot of people just assume men's tennis is better.

I've done a lot of astronaut training through the world, Russia, America. And I could always beat the guys on what they were doing because I was always stronger and I've always done everything on my own.

I'm an athlete; my dad had made sure I played all the same sports as boys growing up, so I was always super competitive.

I was so afraid that the athletes wouldn't talk to me because I'm a woman.

I don't have rights. Let's put it this way: in athletics, I don't have rights.

When I was in school, there was no such thing as girls' athletics.

Even as a sitting MP from a party, I wasn't spared. Azam Khan harassed me. He attempted an acid attack on me.

Wearing the sari, adhering to the parda system and all those things are really taxing. After wearing a woman's attire, I came to understand what they go through daily.

Men are attracted to youth and beauty; women are attracted to power.

It always felt that there were a lot of shows where there was a white lead female, who was attractive, and then I was being offered the kooky friend. And it was just like, 'Why can't this be the other way around?'

People would ask for my autograph because they had never seen a woman behind the camera before.

Nobody wants to talk about divorce, especially as a woman under 30.

We were watching 'Madagascar' and Carmen asked me, she said, 'Is the zebra a boy or a girl?' and I said, 'He's a boy,' and she said 'How do you know?' and I said, 'Because I know him. I actually know all the actors that are doing the voices.' And she looks at me and she's like, 'You know a zebra? You know a talking zebra?'

I think I worked way harder for the female directors than the male ones. There's nothing like women challenging each other to really make you do your best.

In the men's game, there are three, four, five dominant players who pretty much win everything, but in the women's, anyone can.

I never thought of myself as either a woman or a man. I thought of myself as a person who was born to a writer, who was doomed to be a writer.

I'm from the generation that had the boys' door and the girls' door when you went to school, and you got in big trouble if you went in the wrong one.

For me, the best thing about drag is getting out of it.

People ask me, 'Have you done much drag?' And I say, 'I don't think of it as drag. I'm playing a woman!'

I think that 'Drag Race' would certainly let a straight guy compete in drag.