Naveen Jain Quotes

Boys will be boys. And even that wouldn't matter if only we could prevent girls from being girls.

We have been very conditioned by the cultures that we come from and are usually very identified with the particular gender that we happen to be a member of.

We're really taught to be followers from a very young age - men lead and women follow.

When gender comes down upon us, male or female, it comes as a restriction.

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.

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

One is not born a woman, but becomes one.

Many differences are rooted in biology and reinforced through culture, so it's important to acknowledge that. Because if you say men and women are the same and if male behaviour is the norm, and women are always expected to act like men, we will never be as good at being men as men are.

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.

I was raised to be a girl Michelangelo.

I do believe that it's something that we don't talk about, but when there are clearly defined gender roles, it is much simpler. Because you don't have to think, which people apparently don't like to do.

What I do know is that traditional gender roles are very real and flipping the norm is difficult for even the strongest, funniest, smartest men.

The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says: It's a girl.

I'm terrified of having a little girl. Girls are more evil than boys.

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.

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

I definitely feel that society sets expectations for transgender people to fit in and makes us feel as if we have to dress a certain way so that we blend in with everyone else. But I believe all transgender individuals should be able to wear whatever they want and not worry about fitting in.

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

Despite the efforts of some parents, children still tend to act out the traditional sex roles of our culture. The child's peer group may have more of an influence over this than the parents.

We do what we see and what we're told. If we haven't been raised in a family or in a community where women are treated as full human beings and men don't have to be superior anymore, we continue to think that it's not only natural but inevitable.

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

One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.

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

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?