Holly Marie Combs Quotes

If there were genders to genres, fiction would be unquestionably feminine.

We are still vulnerable to gender-targeted marketing no matter how carefully we edit our children's bookshelves.

When you write, you are not either sex. But when you're read you are definitely gendered.

No one knows 'men' as such, any more than anyone knows 'women,' and if they do generalise they're probably trying to hide their own ignorance. You might know one 'man,' yes, or even lots of individual 'men'.

We determine whether a book is for boys or girls long before the reader gets a chance to decide: we package them with soldiers and ballet slippers on their covers, war machines and glittering gowns.

Ah, well, do I wish that we lived in a world where gender didn't figure so prominently? Of course. Do I even think about myself as a woman when I go to make art? Of course not.

I didn't read much SF as a kid - I was a total Tolkien geek - but I started reading Samuel Delany and Angela Carter and Ursula LeGuin in high school, and I was definitely taken with the notion that here was a literature that could explore various notions of gender identity and how it affects the culture at large.

The thing about women playing boys is that we're not going to age, and we're not going to go through puberty in the middle of a long-running series.

Why does 'writer' have no gender, but 'actor' has a gender? What is that?

Parenting girls makes you quite gender-conscious - it's almost impossible to fight the power of pink. It's not such a terrible thing to want to be a princess when you're five, but it would be nice if there were some other options.

Clearly, we are not programmed at birth to behave a certain way based on our gender. Instead, we are trained throughout our lives to conform to our gender norms.

I have a son and a daughter; I try to teach them equally about balance, gender, and gender equity.

Growing up, I was not told that there were women's areas of preoccupation or male ones.

What I'm trying to do in all senses is deconstruct our idea of gender and use the privileges that come with looking like a model to bring attention to that.

My parents never told me, 'You're supposed to wear pink,' or 'You're meant to do this because you're a girl.'

I also think it's still easy for us - as women, as writers and as directors and producers - to let it fall into the same patterns. Like, "and then the woman brings in the food, because the woman's the one who makes food." It's easy for that to happen, because that's what we've always known.

If we keep on talking about masculine and feminine and following those stereotypes, then we will make women suppress and despise their so called masculine qualities and men suppress and despise their so called feminine ones, and that's where all the trouble starts.

I don't want to play sex roles any more. I'm tired of being known as the girl with the shape.

Washington and Congress are steeped in history and tradition, and that's been very male-oriented.

I felt alien my whole life, but I didn't feel alien because of my gender. Other people made me aware of my gender.

People put stock in someone being in a 'girl group,' but we don't say that a band is a 'man group.'

I'm an only child, so I never had sisters to tell me what I should like based on my gender. I liked what the boys were doing and thought: 'Why let them have all the fun?'

You think that being a girl is degrading, but secretly, you'd love to know what it's like, wouldn't you?

Being in drag for three months - I now have an idea of what women go through. At least maybe a little.

School is very conformist, and one of the very first conforming that goes on in preschool and kindergarten is gender.