Gender Quotes

I want to say that the way in which we understand gender actually changes the way we live gender.

If we think about sexual life for a gender life, it seems to me that we have to allow for certain kinds of changes or certain kinds of ways of reconceptualizing ourselves.

People are more concerned about the economy then these ridiculous concerns as to gender inequity in society, as manifested in marriages, in the mental health system, and then in literature.

Gender data is important. If girls don’t have a birth certificate, how do we know how many are marrying as children?

There is no such thing in the Lord's eyes as something called same-gender marriage.

The more a person can look beyond gender orientation, the happier and more fulfilling life is likely to be.

There's no denial that one's gender orientation is certainly a core characteristic of any person, but it's not the only one.

Why somebody has a same-gender attraction... who can say? But what matters is the fact that we know we can control how we behave, and it is behavior which is important.

There are gender health differences, and we need to know what they are.

The gender inequality in book reviewing isn't getting better. Male authors get the majority of review coverage, and male reviewers do most of the reviewing. It's kind of devastating.

I feel like so much more than my gender and so much more than my relationship to my body and my relationship to men. And, but suddenly you're sort of asked to be an expert.

When I started to internalize fat positivity and believe it, my response was the same one I had when I started to understand the scope of gender inequality: deep indignation.

Because I also teach college, I am around a lot of young women who are just starting out, and I often see them coming up against certain expectations that may be more gender-specific.

I hate to get gender essentialist, but I'm starting to think that a lot of married men have some sort of heterosexually induced dentistry aversion.

When people talk about gender-benders and bracket me with George, I always think I'm not like that. I had more of a rock edge, mixed with the 80s electro.

Eating is our earliest metaphor, preceding our consciousness of gender difference, race, nationality, and language. We eat before we talk.

The act of sport remains a human act, unrelated to gender.

I'm interested in the female dom/male sub dynamic, and how superficially it can seem like a total reverse of gender roles and maybe even subversive or something.

I have brought him [my son] up to think that purity and virtue are both masculine and femanine gender, and that God's angels are not necessarily all she ones.

Find something you're passionate about and just love. Passion is really gender neutralizing.

If one is of the masculine gender, a poodle is the insignia of one's deviation.

I feel very lucky to have served under some great bosses. The majority of them were men, but I have also had a few women. In many ways, I feel like media is pretty neutral when it comes to gender.

I've never treated anyone badly or in a discriminatory way based on their gender, race, religion or sexuality - period.

I think it's about having a competent president, and I don't really think gender has to do with how Hillary Clinton will lead.

If I can use my platform to affect change in gender, as I can in race, then I think I can have an impact.

Right now, if there's a gender gap problem, it's not Ronald Reagan with women; it's with Walter Mondale with men.

I've never felt grounded because of my ancestry or my gender. I think until women get away from that they're not going to be great writers.

Our individual wholeness includes a masculine and a feminine side, which are slowly (or not so slowly) wrung out of us, depending on which gender you are.

Some people say I'm a gender bender. Whether that's right I leave up for interpretation.

I feel if you hold yourself as an artist first and foremost, the barriers of gender come down.

I feel like until you show every side, you're not doing the gender justice.

Kindness and gentleness never had a gender, and neither did empathy.

Violence doesn't have a race, a class, a religion, or a nationality, but it does have a gender.

A word of advice, Will Henry. When a person of the female gender says she wants to show you something, run the other way. The odds are it is not something you wish to see.

Although we have not assigned God a sexual orientation, a height, or eye color, we have thought nothing of assigning a gender and a religion (God always belongs to the same one we do).

There is no religious or any kind of a gender that should separate you from any religious ideas.

It's in everyone's best interest to help close the gender gap in the sciences.

Allow ourselves to do as Ram Dass said in his delicious phrase "Be Here Now." If you are here now you cannot fall into falsely constructed gender projections.

When we get feedback on women, we ask, "Is that real or is that the gender bias at play?" Everyone could start doing that today and I think we'd see really big results.

It is illegal to discriminate on the basis of pregnancy or gender. It is not illegal to talk about it.

Heterosexuality - whichever gender you are - says that the other gender is very important to you.

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

Almost all the voices in history have been men, but on this one question of gender, men don't talk about it. This has nothing to do with women; it has to do with men.

Men's gender problems cause them a lot of suffering. There is a massive spiking suicide rate in middle age for men and a cultural attitude to male friendship that is destructive.

The problem with the way we discuss gender is that it tends to be "Let's sympathize with women" or "Let's sympathize with men."

Is that really the issue [of bathrooms and gender] we want to be pushing leading up to a momentous election like this one? It's that shortsightedness that comes from identity politics.

By all measures men are the more violent gender.

As women are empowered, violence can come down, for a number of reasons. By all measures, men are the more violent gender.

There are different chemistries you can have in different bands, and part of that's caused by the gender.

I'm so pleased to see us talking gender specific messages that are focusing on men on a way I think it needs to be focused in on and I think it's important.