Adrienne Mayor Quotes

I don't buy this premise that the number of minifigures needs to be an equal amount to be gender neutral. Nobody makes artistic products like that; nobody makes a movie and says there has to be equal numbers of men and women.

The basic discovery about any people is the discovery of the relationship between men and women.

I'm not telling women to be like men. I'm telling us to evaluate what men and women do in the workforce and at home without the gender bias.

Obviously I want to support women, and I believe in women, and I think we should support each other, but we shouldn't go into extremes. Some women can get very aggressive towards men, but we need men and love men, so keeping the right balance is the most important thing.

Men and women, women and men. It will never work.

I have really good female friends. I've never bought the whole men-and-women-can't-be-friends thing. I think that's sort of nonsense.

It's a great dynamic. The dynamic between men and women in the workplace is really interesting.

Something that always fascinated me was the psychology and the psychology differences between men and women and how we relate to one another.

Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.

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.

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 grew up in a time when many people believed that men and women should not always be treated equally.

Because if you say men and women are the same and if male behaviour is the norm, and women are always expected to act like men, we will never be as good at being men as men are.

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.

I don't really think about male and female; if something's right for me, it's right for me, and it doesn't matter what it is - maybe that's what it took for me, a woman, to break down the doors.

What these books have conclusively proven is that the diffence between men and women is exactly 38 pages.

I've never been against women. That anti-feminist rap is bogus. I think men should be nice to women, buy them diamonds.

We can't destroy the inequities between men and women until we destroy marriage.

I'm supposed to have a Ph.D. on the subject of women. But the truth is I've flunked more often than not. I'm very fond of women; I admire them. But, like all men, I don't understand them.

Many differences are rooted in biology and reinforced through culture, so it's important to acknowledge that. Because if you say men and women are the same and if male behaviour is the norm, and women are always expected to act like men, we will never be as good at being men as men are.

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

I'm not involved with the female world.

Why does everyone cling to the masculine imagery and pronouns even though they are a mere linguistic device that has never meant that God is male?

You know, I had no trouble with the girls.

I have always found women difficult. I don't really understand them. To begin with, few women tell the truth.