Nithya Menen Quotes

I've always seen the world as very gender-neutral.

I think we're struggling with trying to redefine various positions at this point in history. To allow freedom for women, freedom for men, freedom from those sharply defined gender roles.

You should never be put into a mold based on your gender.

I don't see things in terms of gender.

I remember becoming aware of women's issues and inequality. It became glaringly clear to me when I was living in America that women are regarded as less intelligent than men.

I grew up in a time when many people believed that men and women should not always be treated equally.

There is more difference within the sexes than between them.

I don't see gender as the most significant fact of human existence.

I've been surprised at the number of people who were really angry that I tried to convey gender neutrality by using a gendered pronoun.

Inherent differences between men and women, we have come to appreciate, remain cause for celebration, but not for denigration of the members of either sex or for artificial constraints on an individual’s opportunity.

Sexism is real.

I don't know why women aren't allowed to have the same sort of breadth and scope and flaws of men.

I think, to a great degree, we humans still divide ourselves into two species, even though we are monotypic. There are males and females. We see them as different and not equal.

I think our whole family just never limited ourselves to what anybody expected of us based on our gender. I never grew up that way.

I've never felt that being a woman was a competitive advantage or disadvantage.

I think there are fundamental power imbalances between the sexes that play themselves out in society. And I think science is just not immune to that - which actually isn't a very controversial stance if you think about it.

I do not feel that some things are masculine and others are feminine.

I wish everything was gender neutral. I wish we weren't separated by boundaries like pink and blue and little things like that. I wish we could choose how we express ourselves without hate.

I've never played on my gender.

Today, it's about gender equality, not neutrality. Anyone who doesn't agree would be a bit of an idiot.

We've established a world that's binary gendered, and I don't want to be disadvantaged at all. If being male is going to be more advantageous than being female, I'm all about it. I don't really think it's that important.

I never had an issue with gender.

The American woman's inequality with men is proved by her defiant attitude.

I never really think about my gender, first and foremost - until a door is closed to you. Until you can see a parallel opportunity with a man in a similar place in his career and you think, That opportunity is not open to me or my fellow actresses. That's interesting.

I think it is absurd to give such tremendous importance to the distinctions between men and women. When I meet someone I regard that person as a human being. I do not say "This is a man; this is a woman."