Andrea Leadsom Quotes

I have no prejudice against male or female.

I'm not sexist, I'm just a realist.

It's important to understand that one gender is not superior to the other.

I believe it's on everyone - men and women - to knock down stereotypes and outdated assumptions.

Men and women aren't the same. And they won't be the same. That doesn't mean that they can't be treated fairly.

It is much more easy to accuse the one sex than to excuse the other.

I've spent my life arguing for greater respect between men and women and anyone who takes the time to read my books or listen to my lectures will realise this.

It is time to recognize the variability of females, just as we do males.

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

When you write, you are not either sex. But when you're read you are definitely gendered.

If we just allowed women and men more leeway in our culture and more acceptance, I think they would be able to make better compromises.

I never realized until lately that women were supposed to be the inferior sex.

I feel like people are funny, and women are people, so I'm sick of the distinction.

Sexism is part of every industry and must be addressed. But I try not to focus on the negative but the positive side of what we can bring.

I never saw gender as a barrier.

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.

We need to teach boys to respect girls.

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

Leave it to a girl to take the fun out of sex discrimination.

Mercedes nursed a special grievance - the grievance of sex. She was pretty and soft, and had been chivalrously treated all her days. But the present treatment by her husband and brother was everything save chivalrous. It was her custom to be helpless. They complained. Upon which impeachment of what to her was her most essential sex pregorative, she made their lives unendurable.

I think we still believe that ambition is for boys.

Women in salsa - women everywhere - we always gotta be defending ourselves.

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.

How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.

Feminism is an attack on social practices and habits of thought that keep women and men boxed into gender roles that are harmful.