Gender quotes

“- Private Hudson: Hey Vasquez, have you ever been mistaken for a man?
- Private Vasquez: No. Have you?”

Bill Paxton - Private Hudson
Jenette Goldstein - Private Vasquez

- Putter: Is that a boy or a girl?
- Lloyd: Girl, Joan of Arc. She dressed up as a man and led the French in fighting the English. She heard voices, "stop being a peasant", "France needs you", "the truth needs you". And she won, she beat the English, but then...
- Putter: Then what?
- Lloyd: The French, burnt her, alive!
Yeardley Smith - Putter
Keith Gordon - Lloyd

“Never send a boy to do a woman's job.”
Angelina Jolie - Kate

“Who are we to tell somebody what gender expression works for them. That’s not my choice and it’s certainly not the school’s choice.”
Fivel Stewart - Izzie Taylor

“Ah, Che as in the first three letters of Cheryl.Yeah, I dropped the r-y-l. I mean, do I seem like a Cheryl?”
Sara Ramirez - Che Diaz

“When you're a boy, you can go anywhere you like.”
Soma Chhaya - Shauzia

“I feel more myself in boy's clothes. Actually, Dad, I don't think I'm a girl at all.”
Lachlan Watson - Theo Putnam

“I’m arguing a case. Sex discrimination violates the EqualProtection principle.”
Felicity Jones - Ruth Bader Ginsburg

“- Erwin Griswold: Gender equality as a civil right?
- Professor Brown: When everyone’s aggrieved and everyone’s a victim. It’s what the ACLU does, divide the country into smaller and smaller subgroups.”
Sam Waterston - Erwin Griswold
Stephen Root - Professor Brown

“- Ruth Bader Ginsburg: There are laws that say women can’t work overtime. And that a woman’s social security benefits, unlike her husband’s, don’t provide for her family after death.
- Student Protestor #1: What?
- Student Protestor #2: Excuse me?
- Student Protestor #1: That’s bullshit!
- Ruth Bader Ginsburg: Ten years ago, Dorothy Kenyon...” (continue)(continue reading)
Felicity Jones - Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Gita Miller - Student Protestor #1
Sean Curley - Student Protestor #2

“- Pherber: Did you never have a female feel?
- Chas: No! Never! I feel like a man! A man - all the time.
- Pherber: That's awful. That's what's wrong with you, isn't it?
- Chas: What do you mean?
- Pherber: A man's man's world.”
Anita Pallenberg - Pherber
James Fox - Chas

“The word ‘actress' or ‘authoress' always struck me as condescending. A doctor's a doctor, right? So I've always referred to ‘actors' and ‘writers,' regardless of their sex.”
Sidney Lumet

“- Felicia: There goes the transsexual, last seen heading south. We called her Bernie, but her real name was...
- Tick: Adam?”
Guy Pearce - Felicia
Hugo Weaving - Tick

“- Bree: God, my cycle's all out of whack.
- Elizabeth: You don't have cycles!
- Bree: Hormones are hormones. Yours and mine just happen to come in purple little pills.”
Felicity Huffman - Bree
Fionnula Flanagan - Elizabeth

“- Fergus: The thing is, Dil, you're not a girl.
- Dil: Details, baby. Details.”

Stephen Rea - Fergus
Jaye Davidson - Dil

“His total lack of masculinity, I mean his weak chin and soft underbelly bothers you not a bit?”

Mel Gibson - Kurt

“- Sheriff: Why do you go hanging out with guys, you being a girl yourself? Why do you go around kissing every girl?
- Brandon: I... don't see what this has to do with what had happened.
- Sheriff: I'm asking you all these so that when I speak to the jury, they're going to want some answers, so I have to know exactly what is going on. Now, are...” (continue)(continue reading)
Lou Perryman - Sheriff
Hilary Swank - Brandon Teena

“- Nicole: Would you like me to stay behind and help you?
- Clouseau: That is a generous offer, Nicole. But I am quite sensitive to office gender politics. And in today's world, the slightest gesture can be misinterpreted as harrasment. And it is late, and I would prefer not to put you or me into that delicate situation.”
Emily Mortimer - Nicole
Steve Martin - Clouseau

“- Lt. Theodore 'Ted' Sawyer: Oh, cute baby! Boy or girl?
- Jeff Blue: Gosh, I hope so!”
Obba Babatundé - Sawyer
Dennis Quaid - Jeff Blue

“For one dollar, I'll guess your weight, your height, or your sex.”
Steve Martin - Navin

“- Elizabeth: I miss my son.
- Bree: Mom, you never had a son.”
Fionnula Flanagan - Elizabeth
Felicity Huffman - Bree

“Now listenhere, you mullet. Why don't you just light your tampon, and blow your box apart? Because it's the only bang you're ever gonna get, sweetheart!”

Terence Stamp - Bernadette

“- Malcolm: How do you know they can't breed?
- Wu: Because all the animals in Jurassic Park are female. We've engineered them that way.”
Jeff Goldblum - Malcolm
BD Wong - Wu

- Chris Morrow: I'd be stupid to trust my life to a walking penis.
- Richard "Ditch" Brodie: I'm much more than a walking penis, I'm a flying penis!
Nastassja Kinski - Chris Morrow
Charlie Sheen - Richard "Ditch" Brodie

“- Dr. Rae Crane: You send me back on the basis of my gender. That's called sex discrimination. Look, I understand your reservations. I heard about your wife.
- Dr. Robert Campbell: My wife? Good God, she left me. I wish you'd follow her example.”
Lorraine Bracco - Dr. Rae Crane
Sir Sean Connery - Dr. Robert Campbell