Susanne Bier Quotes

I don't make a distinction between men and women. To me they are just people.

I don't distinguish between men and women. This is irrelevant to me, and I don't think in these terms.

I think it's pathetic that women and men treat each other worse than we treat our pets. It's love or hate.

Thoughts have no sex.

Men and women are both humans, so, for me, that makes my characters and the work that I do human stories.

I don't think I necessarily try to help women; I just try to help people.

In life, with my friends, I don't see them as male or female; I just see them as people.

Male, female, it doesn't matter. All I see when I look across the ring is an opponent.

I think the negative traits are what makes us love other human beings, the foibles and the flaws.

No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.

I always think that if you look at anyone in detail, you will have empathy for them because you recognize them as a human being, no matter what they've done.

My feminism is humanism, with the weakest being those who I represent, and that includes many beings and life forms, including some men.

My vision is a Malawi where men and women live in peace and in harmony as equals enjoying their human rights.

In Finland we have equal political rights for women and men. We do not regard ourselves according to sex.

I love, I love human beings, studying them.

I've raised my girls in a sort of genderless fashion. I mean, I'll take them to get their nails done - I actually love doing that - but I also play ball with them. As a result, my girls are tough and athletic and game for everything.

If men and women are to understand each other, to enter into each other's nature with mutual sympathy, and to become capable of genuine comradeship, the foundation must be laid in youth.

I've always said, 'Underwater or on top, men and women are compatible.'

Men need to understand, and women too, what feminism is really about.

There are men who would quickly love each other if once they were speak to each other; for when they spoke they would discover that their souls had only separated by phantoms and delusions.

Men are fair, and they have learned not to personalize anger - they can disagree with you and argue to the bone, but afterward they still consider you a nice person with whom the underlying human relationship need not be altered.

I think as men begin to see things that address them, they will feel that they can relate. They can't relate to 'Basketball Wives,' 'Housewives of Atlanta.' I am not judging or criticizing those shows at all; what I am saying is the perspective is not necessarily the male perspective. 'Iyanla: Fix My Life' is inclusive of everyone.

Ability is sexless.

I think women can be as cruel as men, and men as tender as women, and vice versa.

I'm always watching people over a short time frame, putting them in an extreme position. Sometimes you don't see the humanity in a person because the time frame is so short and the circumstance so extreme.