Gender Quotes

You have to be invited to the party. You have to be invited to work, which is weird. That can be frustrating. But gender inequality is pretty similar through almost every industry, unfortunately.

In my experience, desire is desire, love is love. I have never fallen in love with a gender. I have fallen for individuals.

I believe in gender equality.

I think the gender story will become less fraught with hard edges - and not that we'll have androgyny, but that men and women will move more fluidly into each other's domains.

I don't want to overstate the gender difference. But women are more sensitized to the way that larger issues affect their pocketbooks, like pay equality or cost of living changes.

Feminism is still one of those taboo words, so hardly anybody talks about it. People usually go gender-neutral and say the book and film [Room] are about "the triumph of the human spirit.

No country in the world can yet say they have achieved gender equality.

I think that why the research and the data are so important is because you become so used to seeing the world one way that you don't even notice anymore. [Gender inequality] has this invisibility.

You just wish sometimes that people would treat you like a human being rather than seeing your gender first and who you are second.

We all have a cross-gender character: Every woman has a man that they can play, and every man has a woman that they can play.

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.'

Not one country in all the world has eliminated its economic participation [gender] gap - not one.

My theory of everything is that we are training kids to have gender bias against girls, therefore when you are an adult, you don't see it. We think it's normal.

We are still focussing too much on gender. If we all just gave ourselves a break, knowing that we could all be everything, we'd feel relieved and more equal.

When gender comes down upon us, male or female, it comes as a restriction.

You can hardly open a newspaper without seeing that a woman has been killed by a man for clearly gender-related reasons.

When the gender role starts to descend, boys get into the masculine box.

There's always going to be evil, but the way we unite, regardless of class, race, religion, or gender, empowers the goodness in the world.

Human beings make mistakes, so we all make mistakes and wrong decisions. Being able to make a decision and act upon it is not gender specific.

We still have gaps that are rooted in gender inequality. Certainly we have discrimination against the LGBT community.

​Courage is a virtue appreciated in a male but considered a defect in our gender. Bold women are a threat to a world that is badly out of balance, in favor of men.

The fact is, 'Billy Elliot' is an incredible show, for any age and any gender. 'Degrassi' fans would absolutely fall in love with 'Billy Elliot.'

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

When I was born, there was a very isolated idea of what it meant to be a man or a woman, and you belonged to one gender or the other.

What is masculine and what is feminine, anyway?

Looking at health through a gender lens is the first step to a more helpful and personalized approach to healing.

The Statue of Liberty's gender changed nothing. It was the same here as anywhere: men and their wars.

I'd also talk about the period and of course all the different gender things that people might feel that they are. I'd be a terrible teacher because of what I don't know about that.

A lot of my effort is to get people to talk about gender in a new way and to see that sexism and gender issues are so ingrained in us.

I remember being very, very aware of gender when I was really young. Not necessarily in a bad way. Maybe it's a little bit because I'm Norwegian and how I've been brought up.

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.

I never think that being a woman is so hard. Maybe don't think about your gender and be confident as you go forward rather than try to single yourself out as some underserved part of filmmaking.

The politics of transgender identity are really complicated. And the debate over how much of gender is biological and how much of it is socially constructed is a very complex debate.

I had observed people whose identity crises around race seemed analogous to other people's identity crises around gender.

Not unlike gender reassignment surgery, someone determines that they are of a different race on the inside and they wish to surgically correct that.

I aspire to be able to appreciate and review a director based on their accomplishments and based on who they are and what they bring to the material, regardless of their gender.

Gender relations are a sad story of men talking trash about women all over the world.

Gender mattered a whole lot less to Shakespeare than it seems to matter to us.

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

No matter what your sexual preference or gender, no one likes a man who is fussy about his looks. You can spend as much time as you want looking good. But don't do it in public.

Religiosity turns out to be the best indicator of civic involvement: it's more accurate than education, age, income, gender or race.

Gender equality is more successful than armed force.

Courage is not a matter of gender.

That you can be whatever you want to be, whoever you want to be, regardless of your gender.

I'll say this, and this has nothing to do with gender or sexuality: You do not want to get licked in the face repeatedly by another human being. You just don't. It's not pleasant.

The only bitterness I had is: Where is the conversation on gender? That's been going on since there have been men and women, and still we're not hearing about what they're going through.

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

I think I never expected "Gender trouble" to have any particularly revolutionary effect so whatever effects it has, I'm always surprised.

"Gender trouble" is old. I mean, you know, in New York, it is old. I mean it's sweet. I mean people are really kind about it but it's like a former love affair you had and you're done.

Do we need recourse to a happier state before the law in order to maintain that contemporary gender relations and the punitive production of gender identities are oppressive?