Alice Roberts Quotes

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.

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

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

People try to make women a very specific thing so that we like them.

Some jobs are for women, and some jobs are for men. It has nothing to do with how capable women are.

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.'

What works for a man, still does not work for a woman - both in terms of how they see themselves and how we see them.

A woman can never be too rich or too thin, but until very, very recently, she could be too powerful, for which - if she wasn't smart enough to camouflage herself - she generally paid the price.

I'm an only child, so I never had sisters to tell me what I should like based on my gender. I liked what the boys were doing and thought: 'Why let them have all the fun?'

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

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

No one knows 'men' as such, any more than anyone knows 'women,' and if they do generalise they're probably trying to hide their own ignorance. You might know one 'man,' yes, or even lots of individual 'men'.

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.

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.

In the end, I do think it's insulting to men and women to insist that they fit a certain profile. I never understood that.

Every woman is supposed to have the same set of motives, or else to be a monster.

Once, power was considered a masculine attribute. In fact, power has no sex.

As societies continue to loosen their standards regarding what is appropriate female and male behavior, I think we are going to realize we have not only underestimated women, but also men.

Masculine and feminine roles are not biologically fixed but socially constructed.

I grew up in a home where I was literally told from a young age, 'No daughter of mine will ever wash a man's socks,' and I am pleased to say I never have. It was made clear that whatever I wanted to do I should aspire to, regardless of my gender.

We determine whether a book is for boys or girls long before the reader gets a chance to decide: we package them with soldiers and ballet slippers on their covers, war machines and glittering gowns.

Most critics of gender division are women, and they're worried about girls and the roles presented for them by gendered entertainments. They are quite right to be. Telling girls that the cars and the guns are beyond their domain of expertise, and that they should content themselves with clothes and friendships, is limiting.

Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women, it is simply a good excuse not to play football.

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