Gretchen Carlson Quotes

Even if society dictates that men and women should behave in certain ways, it is fathers and mothers who teach those ways to children not just in the words they say, but in the lives they lead.

Women and men grow up with both sexes. Our mothers and fathers mean a lot to us, so it's just a question of finding a balance between their influences. I've found mine. And it tends to be more on the male side. I mean male side the way we understand it in the West.

Men are mostly raised by women. Most men have not seen an authoritative woman since they were 8. They associate women in authority with childhood.

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.

As I get older I think, contrary to modern assumption but in line with the old Lerner and Lowe song, that it would actually benefit both them and society if - to quote Professor Higgins - a woman could be more like a man.

Sexism is not the fault of women - kill your fathers, not your mothers.

What a woman is taught, she shares with her family.

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

My father always defined my gender to my brothers. He'd say, 'This is your sister; you must take care of her.'

Female inferiority is internalised by us. Women need a lot more confidence.

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.

When I was born, some of our relatives came to our house and told my mother, 'Don't worry, next time you will have a son.'

I find the question of whether gender differences are biologically determined or socially constructed to be deeply disturbing.

A lot of the time, the way it's portrayed is that I only see women in a sexual way. But I grew up with just my mum and sister, so I respect women a lot.

Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be women.

Most of us believe that women can do what men do. The challenge is to convince employers, legislators, mothers, that men can do what women do.

The natural superiority of women is a biological fact, and a socially acknowledged reality.

I was raised to be a girl Michelangelo.

If parents don't instruct their kids on the narrow boundaries of respectful behavior toward the opposite sex, their kids won't learn it anywhere else.

Most critics of gender division are women, and they're worried about girls and the roles presented for them by gendered entertainments. They are quite right to be. Telling girls that the cars and the guns are beyond their domain of expertise, and that they should content themselves with clothes and friendships, is limiting.

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

I've always been told that women know everything. Is that not accurate?

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

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.

I even felt like I liked guys better than women - that men were relevant and women weren't. It took me a while to realize I'd been socialized to have a slighting view of my own gender.