Gender Quotes

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.

The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.

To me gender is not physical at all, but is altogether insubstantial. It is soul, perhaps, it is talent, it is taste, it is environment, it is how one feels, it is light and shade, it is inner music.

Woman is the companion of man, gifted with equal mental capacity.

A lot of kids are bullied because of their sexual identity or expression. It's often the effeminate boys and the masculine girls, the ones who violate gender norms and expectations, who get bullied.

For me, diversity whether you think of it as race or gender, it's not a trend, it's a human movement, it's a human feeling, it's a human desire.

Homophobia's just one form of abjection, and wherever you have a marker of deviance - skin colour, gender, gender identity, disability - you get the same mechanisms of prejudice.

Every woman has a story.

If parents snicker at racial and gender jokes, another generation will pass on the poison adults still have not had the courage to snuff out.

We must now, in the 21st century, protect democracy, one which rests on fundamental rights for all, regardless of skin color, gender, race or religion. Nothing less than that is at stake.

Women have talent and intelligence but due to social constraints and prejudices, it is still a long distance away from the goal of gender equality.

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.

Gender equality will only be reached if we are able to empower women.

As long as she thinks of a man, nobody objects to a woman thinking.

It's easy to fictionalize an issue when you're not aware of the many ways in which you are privileged by it.

I think we have to accept a wide variety of positions on gender. Some want to be gender-free, but others want to be free really to be a gender that is crucial to who they are.

I have never let gender get in my way.

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

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.

I used to oppose women's suffrage and I've come to support it because these women have convinced me that we need full gender equality for full democratic participation.

I don't think about being male or female, I just behave naturally. I think in terms of excellence in science, not gender.

Gender preference does not define you. Your spirit defines you.

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

Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation.

I have never let gender get in my way. It has taken me over 30 years to get from a garage to the huge campus that we have today. And it's been a long journey.

Gender is really varied and complicated and sort of infinitely individualistic.

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.

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

Our lives are shaped as profoundly by personality as by gender or race. And the single most important aspect of personality ... is where we fall on the introvert-extrovert spectrum.

If I can mean to people - if I can symbolize the ability to pursue gender equality, racial equality, and to be truthful about our experiences, then, absolutely, that's what I want to be.

The role of gender in society is the most complicated thing I’ve ever spent a lot of time learning about, and I’ve spent a lot of time learning about quantum mechanics.

If we do not redefine manhood, war is inevitable.

Gender equality must become a lived reality.

I don't think there's anything wrong with being paternalistic as a company.

The soul has no gender.

Achieving gender equality requires the engagement of women and men, girls and boys. It is everyones responsibility.

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

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

We are a model country where gender equality is concerned.

Men and women should own the world as a mutual possession.

When two people - regardless of gender - long to care for each other, to protect each other, to treasure each other, we should do everything we can to foster that.

I believe in gender equality and I love that I can represent strong modern-day women.

Perhaps we could push beyond these legalistic gender roles if we spent less time worrying about “acting like men” and “acting like women,” and more time acting like Jesus.

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

Homosexuality is genetically hardwired but race and gender are only ideas. OK. Just trying to keep up.

I never pay attention to age or gender. There are just too many other more important things to consider.

A pronoun, too, will aptly reflect the number of its antecedent: "they" does not refer to one person, no matter how many personalities she or he has, or how eager you are to skirt the gender frays.

Everyone has a set of presuppositions: what gender is, what it's not. And they may not write them out or they may not be in theoretical books published by Routledge, but they have a theory.

Well, nobody's perfect.

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.