Judy Sheindlin Quotes

I think we're struggling with trying to redefine various positions at this point in history. To allow freedom for women, freedom for men, freedom from those sharply defined gender roles.

I'm of the opinion that gender is a social construct.

I've always seen the world as very gender-neutral.

I don't see gender as the most significant fact of human existence.

I've given up trying to convince the world about the authenticity of my femininity.

You should never be put into a mold based on your gender.

The gender question has always obsessed me.

I've never played on my gender.

I felt alien my whole life, but I didn't feel alien because of my gender. Other people made me aware of my gender.

There is more difference within the sexes than between them.

Girls can wear jeans, cut their hair short, wear shirts and boots, 'cause it's okay to be a boy, but for a boy to look like a girl is degrading.

Gender is a way to hide from the simple truth we all tell: 'Hey, I'm here, I have a body.'

As far as I'm concerned, being any gender is a drag.

Ah, well, do I wish that we lived in a world where gender didn't figure so prominently? Of course. Do I even think about myself as a woman when I go to make art? Of course not.

Men are every bit as gendered as women.

I do believe that it's something that we don't talk about, but when there are clearly defined gender roles, it is much simpler. Because you don't have to think, which people apparently don't like to do.

What I do know is that traditional gender roles are very real and flipping the norm is difficult for even the strongest, funniest, smartest men.

When it comes to dividing Americans on the basis of their gender, I know a little something about the subject.

Why does 'writer' have no gender, but 'actor' has a gender? What is that?

Almost all the ideas we have about being a man or being a woman are so burdened with pain, anxiety, fear and self-doubt. For many of us, the confusion around this question is excruciating.

We have been very conditioned by the cultures that we come from and are usually very identified with the particular gender that we happen to be a member of.

I've been surprised at the number of people who were really angry that I tried to convey gender neutrality by using a gendered pronoun.

Character is made up of a variety of different things. One of those elements is gender.

For a long time, I really blithely walked around in the world imagining that gender didn't matter any more and behaving like I was on equal footing with other people. And I think, for a long time, it was easy to live in the world that way.

I was really raised in a gender-neutral household. I always knew I was a girl, but it never occurred to me that there was a limitation.