Geena Davis Quotes

I'm saying the excessive focus on what gender a person is, rather than what they do, does a disservice to women.

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?

In my opinion it is a grave error for women to feel that they must move only in women's interests... . What, after all, would we think if men all got together and kept doing things that were supposed to be in the interest of men?

I don't know if I'm sexist, though I have not paid much attention to the women's bracket.

One distressing thing is the way men react to women who assert their equality: their ultimate weapon is to call them unfeminine. They think she is anti-male; they even whisper that she's probably a lesbian.

It seems to me to be kind of inescapable that one has to be interested in the issue of gender and gender equality. I don’t really expect any credit for going in that direction. It’s the only natural direction to go in. Why is it that some people don’t see that as so patently obvious as it should be?

I am absolutely not a feminist, I am against stupidity, and if it comes from males or females, it doesn't change anything. If it means that women and men, they are equal, then OK, certainly I am a feminist.

Women are obviously much more discriminated against than men in many ways.

I'm suspicious of any man or woman who approaches their own liberation with any kind of gender bias.

I'd like to get to the point where I can be just as mediocre as a man.

Of course I’m a feminist…if you’re not for the equal treatment of men and women, then you’re a fascist.

How did it come to be that you think men and women are the same? Well, there's a simple answer to the question: Feminism.

We may yet live to see the day when women will be no longer news! And it cannot come too soon. I want to be a peaceful, happy, normal human being, pursuing my unimpeded way through life, never having to stop to explain, defend or apologize for my sex.

I tell you there isn't a thing under the sun that needs to be done at all, but what a man can do better than a woman, unless it's bearing children, and they do that in a poor make-shift way; it had better ha been left to the men.

You know, I've always considered women to be people.

When women criticize men it's called feminism. When men criticize women it's called misogyny

I had met far more discrimination because I am a woman than because I am black.

Misogyny is ingrained in people from the time they are born. So to me, feminism is probably the most important movement that you could embrace, because it's just basically another word for equality.

The most important thing is to have a more open and honest dialogue about gender issues.

... so long as woman labors to second man's endeavors and exalt his sex above her own, her virtues pass unquestioned; but when shedares to demand rights and privileges for herself, her motives, manners, dress, personal appearance, and character are subjects for ridicule and detraction.

I spent most of my career in business not saying the word 'woman.' Because if you say the word 'woman' in a business context, and often in a political context, the person on the other side of the table thinks you're about to sue them or ask for special treatment, right?

Being a gal, people can be a bit patronizing. 'Oh, look at you using the computer.' They would never say that to a boy. And I don't let them do it to me.

I'm not a feminist that hates men by any means.

To generalize on women is dangerous. To specialize on them is infinitely worse.

I never realized until lately that women were supposed to be the inferior sex.