Virginia Woolf Quotes

Is it easy for me to write from a female point of view? Yeah, I am a female. I'm a very sensitive type of guy. I try to put my female hat on and think how a female would think. If I'm watching 'The Notebook,' I'm definitely gonna cry. I cried during 'E.T.' too.

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.

If there were genders to genres, fiction would be unquestionably feminine.

I hate men who are in touch with their feminine side.

To be honest with you, I don't male-bash. I don't believe in male-bashing. I write about things that are natural, that happen in life.

I do not... look very feminine. Diana, Princess of Wales is feminine... I am... femi-none.

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 identify with women more than men. I guess I have a strong feminine side.

I know how it feels to be a woman because I am a woman. And I won't be classified as just a man.

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

It just so happens that some of the things I like are feminine.

I don't try and write strong female characters or strong male characters, I just try and write, hopefully, strong characters and sometimes they happen to be female.

In a family of all girls, I was always the 'boy' in my mind - the protector, the masculine one. No one would ever have to worry about me.

Why does 'writer' have no gender, but 'actor' has a gender? What is that?

I've been surprised at the number of people who were really angry that I tried to convey gender neutrality by using a gendered pronoun.

I've always wanted to be a man for a day.

I was really raised in a gender-neutral household. I always knew I was a girl, but it never occurred to me that there was a limitation.

I've never wanted to be a woman playing a guy; I love being a woman.

I've given up trying to convince the world about the authenticity of my femininity.

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

I don't see things in terms of gender.

I've never played on my gender.

Wearing one hoop earring and playing with the androgyny - that's who I am. That's what I like to do. And I feel the world should see that. I'm not going to put a shield up or be more feminine to make people feel comfortable.

For the audience, actors carry out specific roles of men and women through the character that they play out on screen. The director on the other hand is not doing a gender-specific job. So, it is irrelevant if the person who makes a particular film is a man or a woman.

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