Jocelyn Bell Burnell Quotes

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

It can be frustrating when you're put in a category with others. Women do get lumped together in this reductive grouping, and you think, 'Gosh, that rarely happens with the boys.' I'm sure people don't say to Eddie Redmayne, 'How do you feel about Andrew Garfield?'

I'm in favour of the old roles being blurred. The old division at school where the boys did metalwork and woodwork and the girls did needlework and domestic science is awful, really - and I'm glad it's gone.

A lot of times, women are pigeonholed.

Believe it or not, I don't collaborate with women, though my agent and editor are both females. For the most part, they do little editing on my characters.

I don't like being put in the same category as people because we have the same genitals and boobs. Nobody is going to write "Lily Allen vs. Ed Sheeran." It just doesn't happen.

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

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.

You think that being a girl is degrading, but secretly, you'd love to know what it's like, wouldn't you?

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

Some boys accepted me, some didn't. And my family had comments made to them. Brazil is still a very macho society, and sports are mainly for boys, so people would say to them: 'What is this girl doing? Why is she always out there in the soccer games with the boys?'

For centuries the leaders of Christian thought spoke of women as a necessary evil, and the greatest saints of the Church are those who despise women the most.

Partly I resented being perceived as weak because I was a girl.

An actor is something less than a man, while an actress is something more than a woman.

Housework is the only activity at which men are allowed to be consistently inept because they are thought to be so competent at everything else.

Women's director! Well, I'm very pleased to be considered a master of anything, but remember, for every Jill there was a Jack. People like to pigeonhole you - it's a shortcut, I guess, but once they do, you're stuck with it.

There aren't good roles for women: the female parts aren't developed: the women are serving the men.

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

Stupid as a man, say the women: cowardly as a woman, say the men. Stupidity in a woman is unwomanly.

If it's a woman, it's caustic; if it's a man, it's authoritative.

Once again, no one in charge had given any thought to the possibility that a woman would be involved.

Especially with girls, people always want to put them in little brackets.

It's tragic that you can define a whole movement in music by gender alone. People are like, 'Oh, look, another quirky girl.'

Women get the attention when we get into the men's arena, and that's sad.

This is still a man's profession, with a lot of men who intellectually and emotionally have not accepted that the military could be women's work.