Gender Quotes

Feminism is an attack on social practices and habits of thought that keep women and men boxed into gender roles that are harmful.

The boys at school are so degenerate that it makes one feel pessimistic about the future of the male gender in general.

My advice for other female directors: don't think of your gender as a handicap. Don't think about it at all. Just tell the best story you can, and don't stop until you do.

I dont see things with gender, race and culture

If we're going to address trafficking in our country we have to address poverty, racism & gender based violence.

The image of God, then, involves gender identity and complementarity. God created gender in duality as male and female.

To me, a great love story is a great love story, and it doesn't matter what gender is involved.

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

There is a massive gender imbalance on TV

When migraines briefly became a campaign issue for me, it appeared that political foes were maybe playing the gender card.

Our mothers are our most direct connection to our history and gender.

The gaming industry is a fairly liberal, hip place, and if you're making games people really don't care what your gender is. At least this has been my experience.

I don’t care what gender someone is, or what race they are. Those things don’t matter to me.

Studies have been done showing that there really are gender differences, that women do bring more congeniality and compromise to the table.

I'm excited about representing my gender, but at the same time it doesn't matter. I wouldn't say my gender has been a disadvantage.

The minute that you make the discussion in the room more well-rounded, multicultural, and of course having differences in gender, you're going to have a different approach.

Gender-based violence is one of the most pervasive and yet least-recognized human rights abuses in the world.

Perhaps it is time to debate culture. The common story is that in "real" African culture, before it was tainted by the west, gender roles were rigid and women were contentedly oppressed.

Every taxi driver I have ever spoken to has a theory of gender.

The Runaways' audience was 90 percent male. That was kind of depressing...Why don't women-our own gender-come out and support us?

If I'm good at something, I'm good at something, and if I'm bad at something, I'm just bad at something. Gender shouldn't have anything to do with any of my work or anything I produce or create.

It isn't chic for women to be drunk. Men drunks are more excusable, more easily absolved, but why? It must be thought they have better reasons.

Men may or may not be better drivers than women, but they seem to die more often trying to prove that they are.

Patriarchy has no gender.

You write people as human beings first and then the gender specific stuff second.

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

If you get a job or promotion because of your race or gender, it is no different than a subsidy. You get something you didn't earn, 'something for nothing.'

I try not to focus on the gender issue too much but I think you have to acknowledge it in order for it to go away.

There's a test they can do to determine a baby's gender ahead of time; I think they insert a tiny photo of Leonardo DiCaprio into the uterus, and if the baby punches it, it's a boy.

We all ought to be equal and not see discrimination based on gender, race, or sexual orientation.

It's tragic that you can define a whole movement in music by gender alone. People are like, 'Oh, look, another quirky girl.'

Gender or skin color does not of itself determine the nature of a person's thinking.

Choosing a Board of Directors based on race and gender is a lousy way to run a company.

What people in Burma need is a democratic federal Burma that guarantees autonomy, rights and protection for all, regardless of ethnicity, gender, religion or race.

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

I believe all men, all women, regardless of race, gender, socioeconomic background, you deserve the same rights.

So why, after prior successes, did Obama's race/class/gender attack finally sputter out like the French at Waterloo?

Depression as one example is an illness that has a chemical basis, but also is deeply embedded in cultural norms about gender, social class, race.

Marriage cannot be a job as it has become.

We speak of the masculine and the feminine, but they are the wrong labels. It is really more a matter of poetry versus intellectualization.

The king was pregnant.

Most of the psychological differences between men and women seem to come from differences in their reproductive system

The 2010 global gender gap report by the World Economic Forum shows that countries with better gender equality have faster-growing, more competitive economies.

There is a resemblance between men and women, not a contrast. When a man begins to recognize his feeling, the two unite. When men accept the sensitive side of themselves, they come alive.

I'm no great fan of the phallus, and have made my own views known on this subject before, so I do not propose a return to a notion of the phallus as the third term in any and all relations of desire.

In the grammar of the phallus -- the I, I, I -- [woman] can't utter female experience.

A man will strategically organize his life in boxes and then spend most of his time in the boxes he can succeed in.

Some day, my son, you are going to learn that the two greatest joys of being a man are beating the hell out of someone and getting the hell beaten out of you, good night.

Men are not dogs. We merely think we are and, on occasion, act as if we are. But, by believing in our nobler nature, women have the amazing power to inspire us to live up to it.

As for mother Eve - I wasn't there and can't deny the story, but I will say this. If she brought evil into the world, we men have had the lion's share of keeping it going ever since.