Jessi Combs Quotes

I'm from the generation that had the boys' door and the girls' door when you went to school, and you got in big trouble if you went in the wrong one.

I was surrounded by strong women so it had never even occurred to me that women were anything other than equal to men.

I'm an only child, so I never had sisters to tell me what I should like based on my gender. I liked what the boys were doing and thought: 'Why let them have all the fun?'

Gender is probably the most restricting force in American life.

I never shared a room growing up because I was the only girl.

I have been told by people that I should not be seen clubbing with good-looking women, but I can't see why not. Why be a pop star otherwise?

As a kid, you get to the stage where you realise the gender barriers that exist in society and what you're supposed to do and not supposed to do.

There is a sense that women are more anchored than men in our society.

I can't write - I can't think like a woman... it's not natural, but I've tried.

Growing up, I was not told that there were women's areas of preoccupation or male ones.

The majority of the film industry is, like, obsessed with a ridiculous gender binary and keeping with this stupid social binary. Like, who cares?

They [men and women] have both been, and men especially, have been told that how they naturally are is bad.

Women all live a double standard.

Public opinion actually applauds the young woman venturing into the business world, but it still obstinately (and quite illogically) protects the young man in his sacred right to know nothing of housework.

A man with a talent does what is expected of him, makes his way, constructs, is an engineer, a composer, a builder of bridges. It's the natural order of things that he construct objects outside himself and his family. The woman who does so is aberrant. We have to expiate for this cursed talent someone handed out to us, by mistake, in the black mystery of genetics.

We throw the whole drudgery of creation on one sex, and then imply that no female of any delicacy would initiate any effort in that direction.

When men do wrong, it is out of hardness; when women do wrong, it is out of weakness.

I have been told that I am a "natural" feminist, someone who was born a feminist. In fact I was quite blind to what the problem was: I couldn't understand why anyone would hesitate to do what they wanted to do just because they were told that women didn't do such things.

Women can always think as much as they like, an' they could get up on a platform an' talk till they bust, as long as they didn't want the world to be made no better, an' they wouldn't be thought unwomanly. It's soon as a woman wants any practical good done that she is considered a unwomanly creature.

A man is called a good fellow for doing things which, if done by a woman, would land her in a lunatic asylum.

Feminism isn't about hating men. It's about challenging the absurd gender distinctions that boys and girls learn from childhood and carry into their adult lives.

My childhood was as heavily gendered as any you would find in a working-class household in Lincolnshire.

I've always felt heroic about my life... As a child, I remember little girls in the playground moaning about how boys could do more than they could. I didn't think that was the case at all. My parents didn't treat me as a girl.

Men are uncomfortable running against women because they've had so little experience doing it.

Republicans ask, 'Is it Miss or Mrs.?' Democrats don't ask.