Gender Focus Quotes

I sometimes get asked: 'How come the men in your stories don't have such strong characters?' And I'm like: 'I don't care.' I just want to find out about all the different lives a woman can live. But my feminism has never been against men. It's not erasure; it's just they're not the focus. In real life, they're quite nice.

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

The proper study of mankind is woman.

Whatever your opinion on it, 'Sex And The City' was undeniably a show that told stories where the main focus was on women and not on men.

I'm a black woman, so I'm obviously not going to write something where women aren't at the forefront.

I just really have an affinity for women. Watching them go through journeys is more interesting to me than watching men.

I do want people to know that the songs that I wrote when I was with women were really about women. And the songs that I've written since have been fairly obvious about men.

The modern campus is deeply obsessed by race and gender, and not much else.

I'm known for being annoyingly gender-focused. It's always been my platform.

I've read a number of relationship books out there. A lot are written towards women.

I always had this philosophy that only the best is good enough for those who serve girls.

What we are now doing with the victory, and I agree with you if you condemn that and I condemn whole-heartedly the trivial bullshit it is to go after a man who makes a scientific breakthrough and all that we as women — organized women — do is to fret about his shirt?

I want to develop women-oriented films because, in most of the films, 70 per cent of the focus is on heroes and the rest on the heroine.

I'm so pleased to see us talking gender specific messages that are focusing on men on a way I think it needs to be focused in on and I think it's important.