Best 791 quotes in «gender quotes» category

You will criticize me, reader, for writing in a style six hundred years removed from the events I describe, but you came to me for explanation of those days of transformation which left your world the world it is, and since it was the philosophy of the Eighteenth Century, heavy with optimism and ambition, whose abrupt revival birthed the recent revolution, so it is only in the language of the Enlightenment, rich with opinion and sentiment, that those days can be described. You must forgive me my ‘thee’s and ‘thou’s and ‘he’s and ‘she’s, my lack of modern words and modern objectivity. It will be hard at first, but whether you are my contemporary still awed by the new order, or an historian gazing back at my Twenty-Fifth Century as remotely as I gaze back on the Eighteenth, you will find yourself more fluent in the language of the past than you imagined; we all are.

All genders?' whispered Nudge. 'Aren't there just the two' I shrugged. 'No idea. Maybe they've created others.

Allow ourselves to do as Ram Dass said in his delicious phrase "Be Here Now." If you are here now you cannot fall into falsely constructed gender projections.

America cannot be America in the new century until it deals with these new questions of gender, including the trans issues, and the questions around faith and Islam.

American Idol transcends age, gender, ethnicity, everything.

Androgyny suggests a spirit of reconciliation between the sexes.

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

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

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.

By all measures men are the more violent gender.

Being a teenager who's coming out during a national debate about whether there's something wrong with you, something wrong with the fact that you love someone of the same gender, that's a terrible thing.

BUT MY RECENT RESEARCH HAS SHOWN ME THAT FEMINISM HAS BECOME AN UNPOPULAR WORD. WOMEN ARE CHOOSING NOT TO IDENTIFY AS FEMINISTS.

Feminism is rooted in racial rights and gender rights, and all of those things intersect, and to say that that's not something you can stand behind - it confuses me. I think it's a really great word.

Every taxi driver I have ever spoken to has a theory of gender.

Gender is a kind of imitation for which there is no original; in fact, it is a kind of imitation that produces the very notion of the original as an effect and consequence of the imitation itself.

For me, a director is a director immaterial of the gender. At the end of the day, the audience is only interested in watching a good film.

Gender equality must become a lived reality.

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

Gender inequality is not one problem, it's a collection of problems.

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

Gender is between your ears and not between your legs.

Gender mattered a whole lot less to Shakespeare than it seems to matter to us.

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

Gender is really varied and complicated and sort of infinitely individualistic.

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.

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

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.

Hedi was and is still misspelled 'Heidi' and my perception of genders ended up slightly out of focus from an early age.

Heterosexuality - whichever gender you are - says that the other gender is very important to you.

Human beings make mistakes, so we all make mistakes and wrong decisions. Being able to make a decision and act upon it is not gender specific.

Hillary Clinton almost got to be president. The reasons why she didn't become president had to do with bad judgments about how to handle the early caucus states, which is not a gender-specific trait.

I am very gender-fluid and feel more like I wake up every day sort of gender neutral.

I believe the transsexual urge, at least as I have experienced it, to be far more than a social compulsion, but biological, imaginative, and essentially spiritual, too.

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

I don't admit that a woman draws that well!

I desire a person, not a gender.

I don't agree with a core statement by most feminists, the statement by Simone de Beauvoir: "One is not born a woman, one becomes one." Even as a schoolgirl I wasn't convinced by the claim that gender has nothing to do with biology and is only shaped by one's environment.

I feel like I have had to catch up to the art I've made, and learn from the protagonists I have written, especially in relation to gender.

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

I feel like a feminist is gender equality.

I feel like so much more than my gender and so much more than my relationship to my body and my relationship to men. And, but suddenly you're sort of asked to be an expert.

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

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

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

I have never let gender get in my way.

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

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'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.