Geena Davis Quotes

There is a mindset that has to be changed - the sense of entitlement of the man. That happens when you are bringing up someone. If you are going to differentiate between a boy and a girl from age zero, then he is bound to grow up with the sense of entitlement.

Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be women.

Boys will be boys. And even that wouldn't matter if only we could prevent girls from being girls.

I don't pretend there aren't biological differences, but I don't believe the desire for leadership is hardwired biology, not the desire to win or excel. I believe that it's socialization, that we're socializing our daughters to nurture and our boys to lead.

We have been very conditioned by the cultures that we come from and are usually very identified with the particular gender that we happen to be a member of.

Parenting girls makes you quite gender-conscious - it's almost impossible to fight the power of pink. It's not such a terrible thing to want to be a princess when you're five, but it would be nice if there were some other options.

There is no longer a doubt that women are just as competent as men. Gender differences are guided by nurture, as society treats boys and girls differently from an early age.

It's not at all a far jump to think that overall perceptions of gender - and what is and is not important in gender roles - would carry over from life to fiction.

I don't think anyone is saying that we should be treating boys and girls exactly the same and that we should try to eliminate all differences. What the psychologists who do this work are saying is we should be aware of it and careful about it, especially if we think it could be limiting choices.

Despite the efforts of some parents, children still tend to act out the traditional sex roles of our culture. The child's peer group may have more of an influence over this than the parents.

Men and women study things differently, and it's not because of our chromosomes. It's a product of our cultural conditioning.

I would say how important it is that we stop teaching kids, from the beginning, that boys are more important than girls. It's the 21st century, you know, let's go here. We have to show kids that boys and girls share the sandbox equally and do equally interesting things. We're teaching kids something that we have to try to get rid of later on. Why not just stop filling them with unconscious gender bias?

Some of the most patriarchal thinkers I know are women. Some of the most feminist thinkers are men.

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.'

We are still vulnerable to gender-targeted marketing no matter how carefully we edit our children's bookshelves.

School is very conformist, and one of the very first conforming that goes on in preschool and kindergarten is gender.

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

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.

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'.

Because of our social circumstances, male and female are really two cultures and their life experiences are utterly different.

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

People don't always want to have females as leaders.

Women exist in my imagination. So they are necessarily a type of abstraction. Many women criticise me for this vision, but I explain to them it's to be expected, because I am a man.

'Man up' is a sexist term that should be retired along with all the other gender-based imperious imperatives.