Best 791 quotes in «gender quotes» category

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 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 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.

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 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.

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

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

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'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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

Real feminism is spinsterhood.

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.'

Patriarchy has no gender.

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

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.

So few grown women like their lives.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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 is to have a more open and honest dialogue about gender issues.

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

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

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

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 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.

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.

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.

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.