Alex Morgan Quotes

I've never thought in terms of 'men do this' and 'women do that.'

There is no longer a doubt that women are just as competent as men. Gender differences are guided by nurture, as society treats boys and girls differently from an early age.

You're brought up not to hit girls, that it's the worst sin, and that's what I do. But you know, gender is the last thing I think about when I'm fighting. It's the one situation where I don't think of gender at all.

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.

I do think the attempt to raise consciousness has succeeded. People are very aware of gender concerns now.

I believe I've always been a big believer in equality. No one has ever been able to tell me I couldn't do something because I was a girl.

I've always felt heroic about my life... As a child, I remember little girls in the playground moaning about how boys could do more than they could. I didn't think that was the case at all. My parents didn't treat me as a girl.

Physical, emotional, psychological and social differences [between the sexes] exist and dare not be disregarded.

Women are not by nature inferior to men...

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

Gender is irrelevant. Certainly the tennis ball doesn't know what the gender was of the tennis coach.

My general idea of the world is that I'm not different at all because I'm a girl. So I get blindsided sometimes because I forget that that's a thing.

I don't think anyone is saying that we should be treating boys and girls exactly the same and that we should try to eliminate all differences. What the psychologists who do this work are saying is we should be aware of it and careful about it, especially if we think it could be limiting choices.

I don't see things in terms of gender.

There is a mindset that has to be changed - the sense of entitlement of the man. That happens when you are bringing up someone. If you are going to differentiate between a boy and a girl from age zero, then he is bound to grow up with the sense of entitlement.

We like to imagine that women would do a better job of ruling the world - and I'm one of those optimists - but women aren't a superior kind of life form just because of our gender. We're awesome but not perfect. We're human. Just like men.

I never, ever grew up as a young woman believing that my gender would stand in the way of doing anything I wanted.

My coach never looked at me as a female fighter, but just as a fighter, as someone he was training. I had to work just as hard as the guys, or harder than them.

I didn't want to be good for a girl: I wanted to be as good, if not better than, all the guys.

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.

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

I always used to play with the boys and loved it. You never asked yourself the question if there should be a difference between a boy or a girl.

I grew up as an only child. I think it might just be that my dad really didn't care that I was a girl. "You're gonna do certain things 'cause I want you to, and that's the way it is."

For me it's absolutely the same - I treat one and the other in exactly the same way. As persons, that is, not as men and women. But, even here, you have to consider the fact that I've had a very special education, that I'm the daughter of a man like my father and a woman like my mother.