Andrew Cohen Quotes

Parenting girls makes you quite gender-conscious - it's almost impossible to fight the power of pink. It's not such a terrible thing to want to be a princess when you're five, but it would be nice if there were some other options.

Clearly, we are not programmed at birth to behave a certain way based on our gender. Instead, we are trained throughout our lives to conform to our gender norms.

Despite the efforts of some parents, children still tend to act out the traditional sex roles of our culture. The child's peer group may have more of an influence over this than the parents.

School is very conformist, and one of the very first conforming that goes on in preschool and kindergarten is gender.

One is not born a woman, but becomes one.

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 find the question of whether gender differences are biologically determined or socially constructed to be deeply disturbing.

Masculine and feminine roles are not biologically fixed but socially constructed.

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

I was raised to be a girl Michelangelo.

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

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.

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

I even felt like I liked guys better than women - that men were relevant and women weren't. It took me a while to realize I'd been socialized to have a slighting view of my own gender.

Physical, emotional, psychological and social differences [between the sexes] exist and dare not be disregarded.

There is no longer a doubt that women are just as competent as men. Gender differences are guided by nurture, as society treats boys and girls differently from an early age.

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.

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

There are those who believe that the existence of gender differences at very early ages is evidence that these differences are biological or generic in origin.

The gender question has always obsessed me.

Within my immediate creative community, I would say gender is something that I've always been interested in and always talked about.

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

There is a mindset that has to be changed - the sense of entitlement of the man. That happens when you are bringing up someone. If you are going to differentiate between a boy and a girl from age zero, then he is bound to grow up with the sense of entitlement.

I've never played on my gender.