Anne Wojcicki Quotes

I've never played on my gender.

There are jobs that can be done equally well by men or by women and that finally you can't see a difference. But from the moment that you involve yourself fully in writing a novel, for example, or an essay, then you are involved as a woman, in the same way that you can't deny your nationality - you are French, you are a man, you are a woman... all this passes into the writing.

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 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.

There is more difference within the sexes than between them.

Hedi was and is still misspelled 'Heidi,' and my perception of genders ended up slightly out of focus from an early age.

Gender is between your ears and not between your legs.

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

Ah, well, do I wish that we lived in a world where gender didn't figure so prominently? Of course. Do I even think about myself as a woman when I go to make art? Of course not.

Personally I have always liked boys, but if it's a girl, marvelous, because I was raised among women.

I don't think gender is aesthetically defining for me.

I don't think I look like a boy, but I don't think androgyny is such a bad thing.

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

I never get to forget who I am, my gender identity.

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

In general it's good to give children as wide a choice as possible, and there is no harm in encouraging children to play with 'typical' toys for the opposite sex. But whether they should be trying to change children is a more ethical decision; I think we should be supporting a child's interests, whatever they are.

Within my immediate creative community, I would say gender is something that I've always been interested in and always talked about.

When I was five, long before I understood what the word 'gender' meant, I would always tell my mother that I wished I were a girl.

Transgender doesn't need to imply loud.

I was a weird but definite kid, and there were essentially no gender roles for me to fit into.

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

I never had an issue with gender.

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

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."

I don't think about being male or female, I just behave naturally. I think in terms of excellence in science, not gender.