Gender famous quotes

Women are all we know of paradise on this earth.
-- Albert Camus

#Earth #Paradise #Gender

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.
-- Andrej Pejic

#Kids #Gender #Stage

I guess professionally I've left my gender open to artistic interpretation.
-- Andrej Pejic

#Artistic #Gender #Interpretation

Your gender identity is who you are. Sexual identity is who you bounce that off of.
-- Andrew Solomon

#Identity #Gender #Gender Identity

You don't fall in love with a gender, you fall in love with a person.
-- Andy Biersack

#Falling In Love #Gender

There’s no such thing as sexism against men. That's because sexism is prejudice + power. Men are the dominant gender with power in society.
-- Anita Sarkeesian

#Men #Prejudice #Gender

I love to be individual, to step beyond gender.
-- Annie Lennox

#Steps #Individual #Gender

Women should be treated as human beings, not as domestic animals.
-- Averroes

#Animal #Gender #Should

A learned woman is thought to be a comet that bodes mischief whenever it appears.
-- Bathsua Makin

#Gender #Comets #Mischief

Patriarchy has no gender.
-- Bell Hooks

#Gender #Patriarchy

All the English speakers, or almost all, have difficulties with the gender of words.
-- Bernard Pivot

#Gender #Difficulty #Speakers

I'm a big believer in education. If people learn the truth, they'll see the benefit if they have gender neutral policies.
-- Brigid Schulte

#People #Benefits #Gender

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

#Differences #Determined #Gender

Androgyny suggests a spirit of reconciliation between the sexes ...
-- Carolyn Heilbrun

#Sex #Spirit #Gender

Suffer women once to arrive at an equality with you, and they will from that moment become your superiors.
-- Cato the Elder

#Suffering #Moments #Gender

Gender is between your ears and not between your legs.
-- Chaz Bono

#Ears #Legs #Gender

Until we as a gender refuse to wear any shoe that would be uncomfortable to walk a mile in, we’re perfectly screwed.
-- Cheryl Strayed

#Shoes #Would Be #Gender

Yes, there's a problem with gender as it is today, and we must fix it, we must do better.
-- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#Today #Problem #Gender

The problem with gender is that it prescribes how we should be, rather than recognising how we are.
-- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#Problem #Gender #Should

I like playing all sorts of ages and genders.
-- Chris Lilley

#Age #Gender

'Man up' is a sexist term that should be retired along with all the other gender-based imperious imperatives.
-- Christine Pelosi

#Men #Sexist #Gender

Being a lady is an attitude.
-- Chuck Woolery

#Attitude #Women #Gender

Parenting is about being competent and responsible. It's not about gender, necessarily.
-- Dan Savage

#Fathers Day #Father #Gender

Gender is a social construct, but everyone likes to cuddle.
-- Danielle Henderson

#Likes #Gender #Social

People fall in love with a person, not a gender
-- Darren Criss

#Falling In Love #People #Gender

You have to be invited to the party. You have to be invited to work, which is weird. That can be frustrating. But gender inequality is pretty similar through almost every industry, unfortunately.
-- Daryl Hannah

#Party #Gender #Inequality

Part of the reason images of women in positions of authority are marked by their gender is that the very notion of authority is associated with maleness.
-- Deborah Tannen

#Reason #Gender #Authority

I don't admit that a woman draws that well!
-- Edgar Degas

#Gender #Wells #Draws

Women hear rhythm differently than men.
-- Elvis Costello

#Men #Gender #Rhythm

IT IS TIME THAT WE ALL SEE GENDER AS A SPECTRUM INSTEAD OF TWO SETS OF OPPOSING IDEALS.
-- Emma Watson

#Two #Gender Equality #Gender

O! how short a time does it take to put an end to a woman's liberty!
-- Fanny Burney

#Liberty #Doe #Gender

Sarah Palin is an heir to the women's movement. She has not been constrained by gender. At no point in her life has she thought, 'I can't do that because I'm a woman.'
-- Gail Collins

#Movement #Heirs #Gender

Gender reassignment is an exorcism of the mother
-- Germaine Greer

#Mother #Exorcism #Gender

My experiences with gender bias are probably the norm. What I found was that expectations of women were simply lower, and this resulted in being overlooked for certain opportunities.
-- Heather Bresch

#Opportunity #Expectations #Gender

Any serious shift towards more sustainable societies has to include gender equality.
-- Helen Clark

#Serious #Gender Equality #Gender

Marriage should be between a spouse and a spouse, not a gender and a gender.
-- Hendrik Hertzberg

#Marriage #Gay #Gender

Our mothers are our most direct connection to our history and gender.
-- Hope Edelman

#Mother #Connections #Gender

Iranian women are very consciously aware of gender-explicit oppression. Therefore: with so much more at stake, Iranian women have each other's back: on the street, in stores, at celebrations, everywhere.
-- Inga Muscio

#Celebration #Oppression #Gender

As to sex, the original pleasure, I cannot recommend too highly the advantages of androgyny.
-- Jan Morris

#Sex #Pleasure #Gender

When I was born, there was a very isolated idea of what it meant to be a man or a woman, and you belonged to one gender or the other.
-- Javier Bardem

#Men #Ideas #Gender

What is masculine and what is feminine, anyway?
-- Jean Paul Gaultier

#Feminine #Gender #Masculine

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

#Facts #Gender #Significant

Writing as a woman presents enormous problems but I have attempted it several times and haven't had many complaints.
-- Jim Harrison

#Writing #Problem #Gender

Gender based violence anywhere is a threat to peace and security everywhere.
-- John F. Kerry

#Violence #Gender #Threat

Your race and gender don't change, but you can choose to change your political affiliation at will.
-- John Podhoretz

#Race #Political #Gender

Given that sexual orientation is innate and that we are all, in theological terms, children of God, to deny access to some sacraments based on sexuality is as wrong as denying access to some sacraments based on race or gender.
-- Jon Meacham

#Children #Race #Gender

courage is not a matter of gender.
-- Josefina Vazquez Mota

#Matter #Gender

There is no original or primary gender a drag imitates, but gender is a kind of imitation for which there is no original.
-- Judith Butler

#Kind #Imitation #Gender

Gender is an identity tenuously constituted in time, instituted in an exterior space through a stylized repetition of acts.
-- Judith Butler

#Space #Identity #Gender

There is no gender identity behind the expressions of gender... identity is performatively constituted by the very 'expressions' that are said to be its results.
-- Judith Butler

#Expression #Identity #Gender

our notions of what a human being is problematically depend on there being two coherent genders. And if someone doesn't comply with either the masculine norm or the feminine norm, their very humaness is called into question.
-- Judith Butler

#Two #Feminine #Gender

Gender is not something that one is, it is something one does, an act… a doing rather than a being.
-- Judith Butler

#Doe #Gender

There's no question that many more women artists are showing worldwide now than they were when I was a young woman, and that's really great.
-- Judy Chicago

#Artist #Gender #Young

Do I even think about myself as a woman when I go to make art? Of course not.
-- Judy Chicago

#Art #Thinking #Gender

…gender is not sane. It's not sane to call a rainbow black and white.
-- Kate Bornstein

#Black And White #Rainbow #Gender

Gender is used as a control mechanism that's just wrong. Gender is never anything to struggle with; gender is something to play with. Once you're free of the rules that all these hierarchical, oppressive systems place on gender, that's the tricky part.
-- Kate Bornstein

#Struggle #Play #Gender

Drag queen is a gender like no other, and with practice I'd learned to rise to it.
-- Kate Bornstein

#Queens #Practice #Gender

So few grown women like their lives.
-- Katharine Graham

#Gender #Grown Women

I can't change my gender, and I refuse to stop making movies.
-- Kathryn Bigelow

#Gender #Refuse

Bones tell me the story of a person's life — how old they were, what their gender was, their ancestral background,
-- Kathy Reichs

#Stories #Bones #Gender

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

#Littles #Gender #Dividing

We are born as who we are, the gender thing is something that is imposed on you.
-- Laverne Cox

#Who We Are #Gender #Born

Cultural perspective on gender diversity in computing,
-- Lenore Blum

#Diversity #Perspective #Gender

Marriage ain't easy but nothing that's worth much ever is.
-- Lillian Gordy Carter

#Work #Easy #Gender

Find something you're passionate about and just love. Passion is really gender neutralizing.
-- Marissa Mayer

#Passion #Passionate #Gender

If one is of the masculine gender, a poodle is the insignia of one's deviation.
-- Mart Crowley

#Poodles #Gender #Deviation

I have never had any great esteem for the generality of the fair sex, and my only consolation for being of that gender has been the assurance it gave me of never being married to any one among them.
-- Mary Wortley Montagu

#Sex #Married #Gender

I desire a person, not a gender.
-- Matthew C. Ehrlich

#Gay #Desire #Gender

We were unusually brought up; there was no gender differentiation. I was never thought of as any less than my brother.
-- Maya Lin

#Brother #Differentiation #Gender

I've never treated anyone badly or in a discriminatory way based on their gender, race, religion or sexuality - period.
-- Mel Gibson

#Race #Way #Gender

Gender equality must become a lived reality
-- Michelle Bachelet

#Reality #Gender #Gender Equality

Creative individuals are more likely to have not only the strengths of their own gender but those of the other one, too.
-- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

#Creative #Gender #Individual

Getting hit on by both genders is such a champagne problem.
-- Naya Rivera

#Problem #Gender #Champagne

Gender preference does not define you. Your spirit defines you.
-- P. C. Cast

#Doe #Spirit #Gender

Thus, gender ideology no only creates ides about femininity but it also shapes conceptions of masculinity.
-- Patricia Hill Collins

#Shapes #Gender #Femininity

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

#Sex #Gender #Drag

I was a liberated woman long before there was a name for it.
-- Peggy Guggenheim

#Names #Long #Gender

Whether we like it or not, gender differences matter in a combat situation.
-- Pete Hegseth

#Differences #Matter #Gender

Achieving gender equality is about disrupting the status quo - not negotiating it.
-- Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka

#Achieve #Gender #Gender Equality

I dont see things with gender, race and culture
-- Rad Hourani

#Race #Culture #Gender

So please, for the love of gender- go bloom. Or water someone else while they do.
-- S. Bear Bergman

#Water #Gender #Please

It's in everyone's best interest to help close the gender gap in the sciences.
-- Sarah Brightman

#Gaps #Helping #Gender

If someone is identifying themselves based on their orientation toward a person of the same gender, then that seems to me to be a self-evident disorder.
-- Scott Lively

#Gay #Self #Gender

It is illegal to discriminate on the basis of pregnancy or gender. It is not illegal to talk about it.
-- Sheryl Sandberg

#Pregnancy #Gender #Illegal

The most important thing we're doing differently is that we talk openly about gender at Facebook.
-- Sheryl Sandberg

#Important #Gender

Sexuality and gender don't change anyone's performance on the court.
-- Sheryl Swoopes

#Gender #Sexuality #Court

I see the effects of sexual and gender liberation all around me, just like you do, but I don't have a sense of being in the majority.
-- Susie Bright

#Majority #Like You #Gender

I dont think gender is aesthetically defining for me.
-- Suzanne Vega

#Thinking #Defining #Gender

We are a model country where gender equality is concerned.
-- Tarja Halonen

#Country #Equality #Gender

Love is pure and true; love knows no gender.
-- Tori Spelling

#Love Is #Gender

With women, you always have to make an educated decision to figure out what they're thinking. It's not one that's necessarily sympathetic, always. Of course, we're all human beings, but the gender thing is big thing. And a great thing.
-- Will Oldham

#Thinking #Decision #Gender

If there were genders to genres, fiction would be unquestionably feminine.
-- William H. Gass

#Fiction #Would Be #Gender

We need not just a new generation of leadership but a new gender of leadership
-- William J. Clinton

#Needs #Generations #Gender

Men were only made into 'men' with great difficulty even in primitive society: the male is not naturally 'a man' any more than the woman. He has to be propped up into that position with some ingenuity, and is always likely to collapse.
-- Wyndham Lewis

#Men #Males #Gender

It is a curious thing to be a woman in the Caribbean after you have been a woman in these United States.
-- Zora Neale Hurston

#United States #Curious #Gender

True badassery has no gender.
-- Alison Pill

#Gender

I've been exploring gender performativity in the Gulf since I was a teenager. I'm not a gender anthropologist, but I feel like there's an extreme binary between femininity and masculinity in the Gulf. From a young age, I knew I didn't want to be part of it. Gender is a huge gray area, and the problem with defined roles is that they cover up undefined ones.
-- Ayshay

#Teenager #Problem #Gender

I don't subscribe to that school of thought that leadership can be altogether defined by gender.
-- Dalia Grybauskaite

#School #Gender #Defined

When I became a professional and fully understood what was going on, I knew that with all the love and care and mentorship that someone like Professor James Herring had given us, was not based on gender; it was based on the notion that he wanted us to succeed.
-- David C. Driskell

#Care #Succeed #Gender

I once asked Myung Mi Kim where gender is located in her work, and she said simply, "it's everywhere," resisting the notion that gender needs to be overly inscribed into the text with some kind of message. Hers is the kind of work that has most influenced how I make poetry - the idea that we don't need to enclose or nail down gender or race, for that matter.
-- Dawn Lundy Martin

#Kind #Gender