Best 791 quotes in «gender quotes» category

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

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

If someone believes they are limited by their gender, race or background, they will become more limited.

If there were genders to genres, fiction would be unquestionably feminine.

I have a lot of really wonderful friends who are of very different sexes and genders.

I have never let gender get in my way.

I like to eat alone in restaurants, with a book, particularly if I am out of town, alone, on business. It's relaxing. I feel not even a twinge of embarrassment. Is this gender-related? Is there a lingering feeling among women that if they are alone in public, they will be judged to be spinsters or spinsters-to-be?

I'll say this, and this has nothing to do with gender or sexuality: You do not want to get licked in the face repeatedly by another human being. You just don't. It's not pleasant.

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

I'm not sure how to put this, but I didn't want things like gender transition to be, like, the money shot in talking about bodily change. The truth is that we are all changing all the time to each other. Anybody who's been in a relationship for more than a year, more than five years, knows this.

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

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.

I never get bored of my wife. It's lovely.

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.

In this society these days, women are widely accepted in all kinds of cross-gender areas. So yeah, it's time!

I started thinking about gender and how it's an arbitrary thing if you're born with an XX or XY chromosome, but it can determine your experience of the world. It's about whether you are physically intimidating vs. being physically intimidated. It determines whether you are the one to take an active role in sex and society.

I'm interested in the female dom/male sub dynamic, and how superficially it can seem like a total reverse of gender roles and maybe even subversive or something.

I snuck in many doors and when my intelligence was revealed, or my skill set clearly seen, people were often pleasantly surprised or became jealous and scared. I faced more barriers because of my color than my gender.

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

It's hard to tell these days what gender people are. You don't know if they're gay, if they're straight, or Bruce Jenner.

I think we have to ask, not, what "Gender trouble" is today but where "Gender trouble" is today.

It's important to me that youth everywhere, no matter their race, religion, or gender, know that anything is possible with perseverance.

I've never felt grounded because of my ancestry or my gender. I think until women get away from that they're not going to be great writers.

I want the government in the DRC and everywhere where gender inequality is a problem, it's not only an African problem, to take this seriously, also to do everything they can to ensure that we put an end to impunity, to address the problem of impunity and also to assist the women; to empower women, to make sure that they have a voice and a seat at the table where decisions are made.

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

I will do comedy until the day I die: inappropriate comedy, funny comedy, gender-bending, twisting comedy, whatever comedy is out there.

Just to clarify James Damore, Google, what he was saying is the gender gap in tech industries is because women are treated differently because they're not as technically inclined, and that's what got him fired, and everybody at Google had a conniption fit over it.

Kindness and gentleness never had a gender, and neither did empathy.

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

Masters points out that the heterosexuals were at a disadvantage, as they do not benefit from what he called “gender empathy”. Doing unto your partner as you would do unto yourself only works well when you're gay.

Maybe our gender is one thing and our sexuality is another. And that's a cool thing I think.

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

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.

More conservative advocacy work often encourages portrayals of trans people as people who deserve rights. Deservingness, of course, corresponds to national racial, gender and ability norms.

Motherhood is a greater predictor of wage inequality than gender is. It's enormous.

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.

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

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.

Real feminism is spinsterhood.

Norway's a very gender-aware country, and we're very liberal. There are lots of women's voices being heard here compared to many other countries.

Our true nature is free of any and all notions of gender, of any notions of difference whatsoever.

Patriarchy has no gender.

people share a common nature but are trained in gender roles.

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.'

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

So few grown women like their lives.

Some people say I'm a gender bender. Whether that's right I leave up for interpretation.

Taste is a phenomenon. Most of taste is unconscious - it comes from your upbringing, from your family, from your society, your gender, your race; it's a melange of all those things.

That one can love another of the same gender, that is what the homophobe really cannot stand.

The coup de grace which ends the patient's life altogether is quite equivalent to the drastic modification in the institution of marriage that would be brought on by same-gender marriage.