65 Quotes on Gender

• Fashion weaves not just threads but whispers of timeless stories, hidden beneath each layer that adorns our bodies.

  Author: Soledad Emranssy

• A well-tailored suit is to women what lingerie is to men.

  Author: Clairee Belcher

• I appreciate the sentiment that I am a popular woman in computer gaming circles; but I prefer being thought of as a computer game designer rather than a woman computer game designer. I don't put myself into gender mode when designing a game.

  Author: Roberta Williams

• I think we're struggling with trying to redefine various positions at this point in history. To allow freedom for women, freedom for men, freedom from those sharply defined gender roles.

  Author: Fred Ward

• Distinctly American poetry is usually written in the context of one's geographic landscape, sometimes out of one's cultural myths, and often with reference to gender and race or ethnic origins.

  Author: Diane Wakoski

• I don't think gender is aesthetically defining for me.

  Author: Suzanne Vega

• American Idol transcends age, gender, ethnicity, everything.

  Author: Carrie Underwood

• My idea here is that, inasmuch as certain cognitive tasks and principles are tied to nature's laws, these tasks and principles are indifferent to language, culture, gender, or the particular mode of information that is provided.

  Author: Edward Tufte

• There are not as many women who support the national defense budget now as men. I really think there is a gender gap in the support for the large expenditures that are necessary to modernize the force.

  Author: Ted Stevens

• Capitalism knows only one color: that color is green; all else is necessarily subservient to it, hence, race, gender and ethnicity cannot be considered within it.

  Author: Thomas Sowell

• Whether born from experience or inherent physiological or cultural differences our gender and national origins may and will make a difference in our judging.

  Author: Sonia Sotomayor

• Hopefully, 21 years later, Judge Roberts possesses an openness with respect to issues of gender-based wage discrimination.

  Author: Olympia Snowe

• As far as I'm concerned, being any gender is a drag.

  Author: Patti Smith

• With the adoption of the Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women, the international community sent out a clear message that gender based violence will not be tolerated.

  Author: Jenny Shipley

• When the Nobel award came my way, it also gave me an opportunity to do something immediate and practical about my old obsessions, including literacy, basic health care and gender equity, aimed specifically at India and Bangladesh.

  Author: Amartya Sen

• When I put the shot, it's feminine, because I'm female. Athletic motion doesn't have a gender.

  Author: Maren Seidler

• So the tough questions that have been asked of Sarah Palin thus far just have been about the fact that she doesn't know anything and isn't ready to be vice president. That's fair game and it has nothing to do with her gender.

  Author: Debbie Schultz

• Even though I don't agree with either Sarah Palin or Michele Bachmann on virtually anything, I do think the unique scrutiny - because of their gender and highlighting the potential conflict between them is a product of the media's desire for juicy storylines. I think it's inappropriate.

  Author: Debbie Schultz

• There isn't a theologian in the world who can argue with me on this. God has no gender. If that's the case, then everything needs to be rewritten now, right now.

  Author: Susan Powter

• All the English speakers, or almost all, have difficulties with the gender of words.

  Author: Bernard Pivot

• Society as a whole benefits immeasurably from a climate in which all persons, regardless of race or gender, may have the opportunity to earn respect, responsibility, advancement and remuneration based on ability.

  Author: Sandra O'Connor

• The power I exert on the court depends on the power of my arguments, not on my gender.

  Author: Sandra O'Connor

• What everyone in the astronaut corps shares in common is not gender or ethnic background, but motivation, perseverance, and desire - the desire to participate in a voyage of discovery.

  Author: Ellen Ochoa

• I don't think anyone should pick a candidate for any office based solely on gender. That would be, I believe, a mistake.

  Author: Jim Nussle

• And think of how we challenged the idea of a male dominated Parliament with All-Women shortlists and made the cause of gender equality central to our government. We were right to do so.

  Author: Ed Miliband

• Do not ghettoize society by putting people into legal categories of gender, race, ethnicity, language, or other such characteristics.

  Author: Preston Manning

• I don't want to sound pompous, but I really think your gender doesn't necessarily dominate your sexual activity.

  Author: John Lone

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

  Author: Maya Lin

• The pandemic of AIDS is a gender-based disease.

  Author: Stephen Lewis

• We must focus on people as people, regardless of race, creed, color or gender.

  Author: Judge Lane

• The way I approach the character isn't about being gay or straight. It's just about who you love. Gender has very little to do with it.

  Author: Mia Kirshner

• I just wish that every responsible and concerned person would step back regardless of race and gender and just take a closer look at what's really going on in the world today, and say enough is enough!

  Author: Lonnie Johnson

• There are still traces of discrimination against race and gender, but it's a lot different than when I started out. It just comes quietly, slowly, sometimes so quietly that you don't realize it until you start looking back.

  Author: Eddie Johnson

• I didn't want to be discriminated against because of my gender and status. I promised myself I was never going to be treated as a second-class citizen.

  Author: Bianca Jagger

• I'm the result of upbringing, class, race, gender, social prejudices, and economics. So I'm a victim again. A result.

  Author: James Hillman

• But the issue of sexual harassment is not the end of it. There are other issues - political issues, gender issues - that people need to be educated about.

  Author: Anita Hill

• If you think about the way the hearings were structured, the hearings were really about Thomas' race and my gender.

  Author: Anita Hill

• We have a history of gender and racial bias on our court that continues to undermine the system. Excluding individuals based on race is antagonistic to the pursuit of justice.

  Author: Anita Hill

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

  Author: Jim Harrison

• We are a model country where gender equality is concerned.

  Author: Tarja Halonen

• I do think the attempt to raise consciousness has succeeded. People are very aware of gender concerns now.

  Author: Clifford Geertz

• Gender consciousness has become involved in almost every intellectual field: history, literature, science, anthropology. There's been an extraordinary advance.

  Author: Clifford Geertz

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

  Author: Stephen Fry

• Similarly, gender-equality, supremacy of law, political participation, civil society, and transparency are among the indispensable elements that are the imperatives of democratization.

  Author: Recep Erdogan

• Remember and help America remember that the fellowship of human beings is more important than the fellowship of race and class and gender in a democratic society.

  Author: Marian Edelman

• Every American deserves to live in freedom, to have his or her privacy respected and a chance to go as far as their ability and effort will take them - regardless of race, gender, ethnicity or economic circumstances.

  Author: Christopher Dodd

• I'm not convinced that what are traditionally considered to be male energies or qualities or female energies or qualities really have as much to do with gender as many people think they do.

  Author: Andrew Cohen

• I'm suspicious of any man or woman who approaches their own liberation with any kind of gender bias.

  Author: Andrew Cohen

• Most men are very attached to the idea of being male, and usually experience a lot of fear and insecurity around the idea of being a man. Most women are very identified with their gender, and also experience a tremendous amount of fear and insecurity.

  Author: Andrew Cohen

• We have been very conditioned by the cultures that we come from and are usually very identified with the particular gender that we happen to be a member of.

  Author: Andrew Cohen

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

  Author: Andrew Cohen

• When a human being becomes so still that they begin to lose awareness of their gender, and they are simply looking into that abyss where there is no notion of self whatsoever, the world disappears. And that's really the only place to go. It's the only place to remain.

  Author: Andrew Cohen

• Ah, well, do I wish that we lived in a world where gender didn't figure so prominently? Of course. Do I even think about myself as a woman when I go to make art? Of course not.

  Author: Judy Chicago

• 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.

  Author: Judith Butler

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

  Author: Judith Butler

• But let me tell you, this gender thing is history. You're looking at a guy who sat down with Margaret Thatcher across the table and talked about serious issues.

  Author: George Bush

• Sexual, racial, gender violence and other forms of discrimination and violence in a culture cannot be eliminated without changing culture.

  Author: Charlotte Bunch

• Every year I teach dozens of students at the University of Birmingham. Most of the students on the gender and sexuality courses are women. I guess this is because the boys don't think that gender applies to them: that it's a subject for girls.

  Author: Louise Brown

• Thirty years ago, in 1976, the notion of organized activity to combat discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity was an extremely controversial one.

  Author: Robert Brady

• If there's specific resistance to women making movies, I just choose to ignore that as an obstacle for two reasons: I can't change my gender, and I refuse to stop making movies.

  Author: Kathryn Bigelow

• That's all true, but there was something else going on for me as a kid, something about my gender identity that I haven't figured out yet. And that's one of the things I'm hoping to dissect and investigate in this memoir project.

  Author: Alison Bechdel

• It's definitely part of it, that the men were having fun and doing the interesting things but also, I don't know, I'm just thinking more about gender and how maybe in some way I am more of a boy than a girl.

  Author: Alison Bechdel

• The one thing that unites all human beings, regardless of age, gender, religion or ethnic background, is that we all believe we are above-average drivers.

  Author: Dave Barry

• Gender equality is more than a goal in itself. It is a precondition for meeting the challenge of reducing poverty, promoting sustainable development and building good governance.

  Author: Kofi Annan

• Class, race, sexuality, gender and all other categories by which we categorize and dismiss each other need to be excavated from the inside.

  Author: Dorothy Allison

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