Quotes About Gender

While I'm out of drag, I'm still extremely effeminate.

Tell him I mind having to look pretty, that's what I mind, because it is so much more of an effort.

Some people are both genders. I think you just come out the way you come out, and you have to embrace it honestly.

I hate that there's such an emphasis on women in comedy. Are women OK? Are they just as funny as men? Yes!

Everything's harder for women: harder to start, to stay employed, to run a life with a family.

Half of my employees are women.

If my girl ends up playing football, we probably got a lot of problems. I'll encourage her to do whatever, but playing football ain't one of them.

You never see girls running after engineers.

When I was driving the simulator, out of the three engineers I worked with one was a woman. So it was very difficult for me to turn around and tell people that I worked in a male-dominated environment, because it wasn't.

I have been gender-nonconforming my entire life.

It used to be that I'd do drag, then get out of drag, and try and be as much of a boy as possible. That didn't feel entirely authentic for me, but it felt like what I had to do at the time.

We talk about women in football like we are not entitled to the same opportunity and the same access.

I knew I would be demonized as entitled and what no woman can ever be: ambitious.

Men feel they have a sense of power and entitlement over women.

Arianna Huffington is only rich because of her man entrepreneur husband.

I am a woman. I write SF. And it's not acceptable to treat me as anything less than an equal. I won't stand for it.

Women should have equal rights to men, every day.

I think 'NH10' could have been done equally well by anybody else, and it's not a 'female-centric' or 'male-centric' film. It's the story that will appeal to the audience.

I'm very proud of the fact that the women on 'The Americans' are written to be equally complex as the men.

I really want my daughter to see that she can go out to work, but equally I want my sons to see it.

There was a time when Prakash, our daughter Disha, Vinod - who I was seeing then - and I went out to dinner. People thought it was very strange. But I have always felt if you can't work out one equation - the man/woman one - you don't have to lose out on the person altogether.

I was a proponent of the ERA.

For some people, it's impossible to escape binaries.

People hold my father in very high esteem, but what was amazing was that nobody looked at me as a woman; I was never made aware of the fact that I am a woman.