Best 791 quotes in «gender quotes» category

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 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.

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

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.

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

Patriarchy has no gender.

So few grown women like their lives.

Real feminism is spinsterhood.

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

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.'

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.

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

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

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.

The act of sport remains a human act, unrelated to gender.

The modern campus is deeply obsessed by race and gender, and not much else.

The historical weight of gender inequality has tended to concentrate women in lower-paid jobs with fewer benefits, at the same time made them primarily responsible for care giving.

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

The most important thing is to have a more open and honest dialogue about gender issues.

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

The news is not gender-neutral, but it's usually reported as though it's gender-neutral.

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.

The old languages - at least the ones I know - don't have gender. They don't have gendered pronouns. There's no "he" and "she." A human being is a human being.

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.

This notion that 'what happens in your house doesn't affect what happens in my house' on the subject of the institution of marriage may be the ultimate sophistry of those advocating same-gender marriage.

There's really no question that there is an anguish associated with the inability to marry in this life. We feel for someone that has that anguish. I feel for somebody that has that anguish. But it's not limited to someone who has same-gender attraction.

These are my words; this is their world, a world in which we can wear our gender on our sleeves, unabashedly, as we go about the business of thinking out loud.

The woman who is known only through a man is known wrong.

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

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

Ultimately, the wisest course for anybody who's afflicted with same-gender attraction is to strive to extend one's horizon beyond just one's sexual orientation, one's gender orientation, and to try to see the whole person.

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

We cannot be liberated as women in a society built on class oppression or gender oppression or religious oppression.

We come from the future, essentially, because we have all these ideas about gender equality, sexual freedom, and these are not shared by the working class, the peasantry among whom we work.

We live in a society which is so saturated with sexuality that it perhaps is more troublesome now, because of that fact, for a person to look beyond their gender orientation to other aspects of who they are.

We have all been injured, profoundly. We require regeneration, not rebirth, and the possibilities for our reconstitution include the utopian dream of the hope for a monstrous world without gender.

Well, nobody's perfect.

We need to humanize women instead of making the idea of a woman be so stigmatized. That's what's interesting to me as a writer and a director - being able to tell stories that represent women as human beings and don't relate specifically to their gender. I want to just allow them to have their journeys.

We need not just a new generation of leadership but a new gender of leadership

We put a gender lens on our whole value chain.

We reject creationism because there is no evidence to support it. By contrast, the notion that biology is at least partially the basis of gender is an empirically supportable, and even well-supported, proposition. The gender scholars reject it on ideological, not evidentiary, grounds.

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.

We still have gaps that are rooted in gender inequality. Certainly we have discrimination against the LGBT community.

What is masculine and what is feminine, anyway?

When gender comes down upon us, male or female, it comes as a restriction.

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

When the gender role starts to descend, boys get into the masculine box.

When I started to internalize fat positivity and believe it, my response was the same one I had when I started to understand the scope of gender inequality: deep indignation.