Naveen Jain Quotes

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.

To generalize on women is dangerous. To specialize on them is infinitely worse.

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

People try to make women a very specific thing so that we like them.

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

What works for a man, still does not work for a woman - both in terms of how they see themselves and how we see them.

Some boys accepted me, some didn't. And my family had comments made to them. Brazil is still a very macho society, and sports are mainly for boys, so people would say to them: 'What is this girl doing? Why is she always out there in the soccer games with the boys?'

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'.

In the end, I do think it's insulting to men and women to insist that they fit a certain profile. I never understood that.

Especially with girls, people always want to put them in little brackets.

The much vaunted male logic isn't logical, because they display prejudices against half the human race that are considered prejudices according to any dictionary definition.

We call our little girls bossy. Go to a playground; little girls get called bossy all the time - a word that's almost never used for boys - and that leads directly to the problems women face in the workforce.

We're still expected to color within the lines of accepted femininity, and women who step out of those lines are usually attacked, whether verbally or physically.

I think human beings have a really broad spectrum of traits, and I almost feel implicated when we say, 'Men are like this, women are like this.' Nobody was telling me, 'Don't get dirty, don't play in the mud, girls don't do that.'

Why can't a woman be more like a man?

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

Men treat men differently than they would a woman.

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

A woman who places a high priority on performance and excellence is seen as imperial. A man is seen as demanding and tough.

I'd like to get to the point where I can be just as mediocre as a man.

I don't think I could keep my position as a well-standing man in the world if I thought there were roles for men and women.

I get the feeling that characters are written female when they have to be, and all the other characters are male, and it doesn't occur to somebody that the lawyer, the best friend, the landlord, whoever, can be female.

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

When women do take on traditionally male subjects, certain male colleagues can seem affronted that a woman has dared to trespass on their subject. I could given you dozens of examples, but here's one: Max Hastings's review in the 'Sunday Times' in 2009 of Miranda Carter's book 'The Three Emperors'.

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.