Best 791 quotes in «gender quotes» category

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

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.

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.

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

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 desire a person, not a gender.

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

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 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 feel like a feminist is gender equality.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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 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'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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.