Gender Quotes

Gender is the poetry each of us makes out of the language we are taught.

Calling gender violence a women's issue is part of the problem. It gives a lot of men an excuse not to pay attention.

A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty.

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

I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.

It is a curious thing to be a woman in the Caribbean after you have been a woman in these United States.

What a country needs to do is be fair to all its citizens - whether people are of a different ethnicity or gender.

…gender is not sane. It's not sane to call a rainbow black and white.

I think everyone is bi, right? There's no such thing as sexual orientation, or race, or gender. Those are all obsolete man-made concepts.

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.

I find the question of whether gender differences are biologically determined or socially constructed to be deeply disturbing.

Creating whole departments of ethnic, gender, and other 'studies' was part of the price of academic peace. All too often, these 'studies' are about propaganda rather than serious education.

Gender fluidity is not really feeling like you're at one end of the spectrum or the other.

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

The feminists had destroyed the old image of woman, but they could not erase the hostility, the prejudice, the discrimination that still remained.

The problem with gender is that it prescribes how we should be, rather than recognising how we are.

If you want a strong society, it has to be inclusive. If you have to push a boulder up a hill, do you want 10 people or 100? If you weed out colour or gender, you get 10.

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

If you join the rat race — you're in the race of rats.

Sisterhood cannot be assumed on the basis of gender; it must be forged in concrete historical and political practice and analysis

As you become more successful, the gender barrier disappears. The credibility challenges you have during your growing up years starts disappearing when you start demonstrating success.

Hate has no place in the house of God. No one should be excluded from our love, our compassion or our concern because of race or gender, faith or ethnicity - or because of their sexual orientation.

American Idol transcends age, gender, ethnicity, everything.

Grammar is politics by other means.

The enemy of feminism isn’t men. It’s patriarchy, and patriarchy is not men. It is a system, and women can support the system of patriarchy just as men can support the fight for gender equality.

If folks can learn to be racist, then they can learn to be anti racist. If being sexist ain't genetic, then, dad gum, people can learn about gender equality.

We have the data to prove to men that gender equality is not a zero-sum game, but a win-win.

I don't think people should have boundaries put on them, by themselves or society or another gender, because it's our birthright to experience life in whatever way we feel best suits us.

I am not in favour of quotas. Just put the best person into the job. It is not about gender; it is about experience, leadership and vision.

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.

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

Men know that women are an overmatch for them, and therefore they choose the weakest or the most ignorant. If they did not think so, they never could be afraid of women knowing as much as themselves.

I love to be individual, to step beyond gender.

Religion and love don't have a price, don't have a gender, a skin color, nothing. We are all on the same plate.

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

We are turning against boys and forgetting a simple truth: that the energy, competitiveness, and corporal daring of normal, decent males is responsible for much of what is right in the world.

Do I even think about myself as a woman when I go to make art? Of course not.

I was not ladylike, nor was I manly. I was something else altogether. There were so many different ways to be beautiful.

In our hearts and in our laws, we must treat all our people with fairness and dignity, regardless of their race, religion, gender or sexual orientation. . . .

If you can find something that you're really passionate about, whether you're a man or a woman comes a lot less into play. Passion is a gender-neutralizing force.

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.

Achieving gender equality is about disrupting the status quo - not negotiating it.

I would rather trust a woman's instinct than a man's reason.

But for I am a woman should I therefore live that I should not tell you the goodness of God?

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

I think anybody has, regardless of your gender, we all have equal value if you have value to bring and value to provide, you just have to be willing to use your voice.

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

I focus on details, either of the body, or of objects that represent gender, sexuality, and other themes.

There are plenty of images of women in science fiction. There are hardly any women.

It’s very strange how electronic music formatted itself and forgot that its roots are about the surprise, freedom, and the acceptance of every race, gender, and style of music into this big party.