John Green Quotes

People aren't comfortable thinking of women as people. Like we're not people, we're women, and that means something completely different, especially when you have power.

It is a pity that so often the only way to treat girls like people seems to be to treat them like boys.

I don't want to play sex roles any more. I'm tired of being known as the girl with the shape.

Because so many rooms are run by men they're just used to women being the "that" - to be adored and dreamed about.

From a male perspective, you don't think about how much outward pressure and importance you put on how women look.

It would have been very easy for me to put on a little tight skirt and go out and try what I always call the 'Barbie doll' roles.

Too often, women are portrayed in two ways: as prizes to be won by men or as damsels in distress.

I realized early on that I always hated girls who used their femininity to get what they wanted.

A woman who places a high priority on performance and excellence is seen as imperial. A man is seen as demanding and tough.

Every woman is just a different kind of problem.

The way my body is viewed in the world is different than a male body. People are going to write about the performance, but they're probably also going to be writing about what I was wearing or my hair, which just doesn't happen to men.

People try to make women a very specific thing so that we like them.

Much of the discussion around how people look at women focuses on culture, as if the media is entirely to blame. As if, without magazines and commenting hosts, we'd all suddenly dress in practical overalls and only judge a person on the quality of their charity work and poetry.

Alaska decided to go help Dolores with dinner. She said that it was sexist to leave the cooking to the women, but better to have good sexist food than crappy boy-prepared food.

The little rift between the sexes is astonishingly widened by simply teaching one set of catchwords to the girls and another to the boys.

In regards to being female, I don't really think about it in the same way that other people do. I prefer to focus on my job rather than my gender. I'm still amazed that people think it's a big deal.

'Princess' is a good word, as is 'girlish', 'pixie-like' and all these other things. I personally find it a bit boring, it's all been done before. The amount of times you read reviews of bands and it's an all-girl four-piece, and they talk about what the women are wearing... you'll never read a review that's like: "Male singer Thom Yorke, who was dressed in a white t-shirt and jeans..." You would never read that about a man.

It is a sad paradox that when male authors impersonate women ... they are said to be dealing with 'cosmic, major concerns' - but when we impersonate ourselves we are said to be writing 'women's fiction' or 'women's poetry.

Anything under size five isn't a woman. It's a boy with breasts.

The differences between the sexes are the single most important fact of human society.

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.

At the end of the day, women are a distraction. Whether you realize it or not.

Little girls as children, I think, are expected to behave better. If a boy's naughty at school, he's a little bit cheeky and mischievous. If a girl's naughty, she's trouble.

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