Olivia Wilde Quotes

In so much SF, either gender roles are the ones we're used to in the here and now, only transported to the future, or else they're supposedly different, but characters still are slotting into various stereotypes.

You see what happens today. Women act like men and want to be treated like women.

Maleness in America is not absolutely defined; it has to be kept and re-earned every day, and one essential element in the definition is beating women in every game that both sexes play.

I have always felt one of the things dance should do - its business being so clearly physical - is challenge the culture's gender stereotypes.

The average woman is at the head of something with which she can do as she likes; the average man has to obey orders and do nothing else.

Women have choices, and men have responsibilities.

That's exactly what's exciting for me - the idea of infiltrating the male structure and affecting change from within.

As a male writer, women are always what men pursue, and their world is always a mystery. So I always tried to present as many views as possible on women's worlds.

I would not like to be the only woman on the court.

Washington and Congress are steeped in history and tradition, and that's been very male-oriented.

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

There are relatively few role models for young people. We are in a society that is ruled by men.

The parts for women, you're either like the quietly suffering wife or the wild girl.

Being in drag for three months - I now have an idea of what women go through. At least maybe a little.

When my friends and I would act out movies as kids, we'd play the guys' roles, since they had the most interesting things to do. Decades later, I can hardly believe my sons and daughter are seeing many of the same limited choices in current films.

Really, in a way, I took over the male role.

Women are always complaining about men's fascination with breasts. But what if men were absolutely indifferent to breasts? What would women do then with these things that serve one function once or twice in a lifetime, and the rest of the time are just in the way?

There's more pressure on women to be chirpy and perky.

I think there are a lot of rules for women. We have a lot of expectations and a lot of rules for women. So we're expected to march in a straight line, and when we don't, all hell breaks loose.

Nature makes woman to be won and men to win.

As an agent, I functioned like a guy. But the fact that I was a woman affected everything.

I'm saying that the depth of exploration of the male psyche and the female psyche is uneven. I see further, deeper renderings of what it means to be a man.

In a place like Afghanistan where the society is completely segregated, women have access to women. Men cannot always photograph women and cannot get the access that I get.

Men that aren't threatened by opinionated, faintly aggressive women are in a minority.

You always have this fear in a movie of just being somebody's woman.