Gender Quotes
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That one can love another of the same gender, that is what the homophobe really cannot stand. (Quote by - Stephen Fry)
I do think the attempt to raise consciousness has succeeded. People are very aware of gender concerns now. (Quote by - Clifford Geertz)
Our only hope for the redemption of woman from the thralldom of dress lies in the belief that her hitherto limited sphere of activities has been so insufficient for her intellectual occupations that she has been forced to expend her thoughts in decorating her person, instead of enlarging her mind. (Quote by - Mercy B. Jackson)
I've left Bethlehem, and I feel free. I've left the girl I was supposed to be, and some day I'll be born. (Quote by - Paula Cole)
I wish someone would have told me that, just because I'm a girl, I don't have to get married. (Quote by - Marlo Thomas)
I don't think gender is aesthetically defining for me. (Quote by - Suzanne Vega)
The people I'm getting furious with are the women's liberationists. They keep getting on their soapboxes proclaiming that women are brighter than men. That's true, but it should be kept quiet or it ruins the whole racket. (Quote by - Anita Loos)
Men are taught to apologize for their weaknesses, women for their strengths. (Quote by - Lois Wyse)
When I put the shot, it's feminine, because I'm female. Athletic motion doesn't have a gender. (Quote by - Maren Seidler)
The little rift between the sexes is astonishingly widened by simply teaching one set of catchwords to the girls and another to the boys. (Quote by - Robert Louis Stevenson)
I think we're struggling with trying to redefine various positions at this point in history. To allow freedom for women, freedom for men, freedom from those sharply defined gender roles. (Quote by - Fred Ward)
I refuse to believe that trading recipes is silly. Tunafish casserole is at least as real as corporate stock. (Quote by - Barbara Grizzuti Harrison)
There is more difference within the sexes than between them. (Quote by - Ivy Compton-Burnett)
We must focus on people as people, regardless of race, creed, color or gender. (Quote by - Judge Mills Lane)
To tell a woman everything she may not do is to tell her what she can do. (Quote by - Spanish Proverb)
The power I exert on the court depends on the power of my arguments, not on my gender. (Quote by - Sandra Day O'Connor)
There is no gender identity behind the expressions of gender... identity is performatively constituted by the very 'expressions' that are said to be its results. (Quote by - Judith Butler)
We have a history of gender and racial bias on our court that continues to undermine the system. Excluding individuals based on race is antagonistic to the pursuit of justice. (Quote by - Anita Hill)
Men define intelligence, men define usefulness, men tell us what is beautiful, men even tell us what is womanly. (Quote by - Sally Kempton)
I want to state upfront, unequivocally and without doubt: I do not believe that any racial, ethnic or gender group has an advantage in sound judging. I do believe that every person has an equal opportunity to be a good and wise judge, regardless of their background or life experiences. (Quote by - Sonia Sotomayor)
When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband. (Quote by - Shana Alexander)
With the adoption of the Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women, the international community sent out a clear message that gender based violence will not be tolerated. (Quote by - Jenny Shipley)
You don't have to signal a social conscience by looking like a frump. Lace knickers won't hasten the holocaust, you can ban the bomb in a feather boa just as well as without, and a mild interest in the length of hemlines doesn't necessarily disqualify you from reading Das Kapital and agreeing with every word. (Quote by - Elizabeth Bibesco)
Most men are very attached to the idea of being male, and usually experience a lot of fear and insecurity around the idea of being a man. Most women are very identified with their gender, and also experience a tremendous amount of fear and insecurity. (Quote by - Andrew Cohen)
Feminism directly confronts the idea that one person or set of people has the right to impose definitions of reality on others. (Quote by - Liz Stanley and Sue Wise)
Remember, Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did, but backwards and in high heels. (Quote by - Faith Whittlesey)
One does not have to sleep with, or even touch, someone who has paid for your meal. All those obligations are hereby rendered null and void, and any man who doesn't think so needs a quick jab in the kidney. (Quote by - Cynthia Heimel)
Capitalism knows only one color: that color is green; all else is necessarily subservient to it, hence, race, gender and ethnicity cannot be considered within it. (Quote by - Thomas Sowell)
Young wives are the leading asset of corporate power. They want the suburbs, a house, a settled life, and respectability. They want society to see that they have exchanged themselves for something of value. (Quote by - Ralph Nader)
As far as I'm concerned, being any gender is a drag. (Quote by - Patti Smith)
Class, race, sexuality, gender and all other categories by which we categorize and dismiss each other need to be excavated from the inside. (Quote by - Dorothy Allison)
Women are not inherently passive or peaceful. We're not inherently anything but human. (Quote by - Robin Morgan)
Why is it that only girls stand on the sides of their feet? As if they're afraid to plant themselves? (Quote by - Barbara Kingsolver)
Sensible and responsible women do not want to vote. The relative positions to be assumed by man and woman in the working out of our civilization were assigned long ago by a higher intelligence than ours. (Quote by - Grover Cleveland)
Several men I can think of are as capable, as smart, as funny, as compassionate, and as confused - as remarkable you might say - as most women. (Quote by - Jane Howard)
I'm suspicious of any man or woman who approaches their own liberation with any kind of gender bias. (Quote by - Andrew Cohen)
Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences. (Quote by - Isadora Duncan)
Men weren't really the enemy - they were fellow victims suffering from an outmoded masculine mystique that made them feel unnecessarily inadequate when there were no bears to kill. (Quote by - Betty Friedan)
There are still traces of discrimination against race and gender, but it's a lot different than when I started out. It just comes quietly, slowly, sometimes so quietly that you don't realize it until you start looking back. (Quote by - Eddie Bernice Johnson)
American women are fools because they try to be everything to everybody. (Quote by - Viva)
We have to have faith in ourselves. I have never met a woman who, deep down in her core, really believes she has great legs. And if she suspects that she might have great legs, then she's convinced that she has a shrill voice and no neck. (Quote by - Cynthia Heimel)
There are not as many women who support the national defense budget now as men. I really think there is a gender gap in the support for the large expenditures that are necessary to modernize the force. (Quote by - Ted Stevens)
I didn't want to be a boy, ever, but I was outraged that his height and intelligence were graces for him and gaucheries for me. (Quote by - Jane Rule)
When a human being becomes so still that they begin to lose awareness of their gender, and they are simply looking into that abyss where there is no notion of self whatsoever, the world disappears. And that's really the only place to go. It's the only place to remain. (Quote by - Andrew Cohen)
I'm not convinced that what are traditionally considered to be male energies or qualities or female energies or qualities really have as much to do with gender as many people think they do. (Quote by - Andrew Cohen)
The one thing that unites all human beings, regardless of age, gender, religion or ethnic background, is that we all believe we are above-average drivers. (Quote by - Dave Barry)
When I see the elaborate study and ingenuity displayed by women in the pursuit of trifles, I feel no doubt of their capacity for the most herculean undertakings. (Quote by - Julia Ward Howe)
Men will often admit other women are oppressed but not you. (Quote by - Sheila Rowbotham)
You know, when I first went into the movies Lionel Barrymore played my grandfather. Later he played my father and finally he played my husband. If he had lived I'm sure I would have played his mother. That's the way it is in Hollywood. The men get younger and the women get older. (Quote by - Lillian Gish)
Ah, well, do I wish that we lived in a world where gender didn't figure so prominently? Of course. Do I even think about myself as a woman when I go to make art? Of course not. (Quote by - Judy Chicago)
I am working for the time when unqualified blacks, browns, and women join the unqualified men in running our government. (Quote by - Cissy Farenthold)
Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness. (Quote by - Erica Jong)
Society as a whole benefits immeasurably from a climate in which all persons, regardless of race or gender, may have the opportunity to earn respect, responsibility, advancement and remuneration based on ability. (Quote by - Sandra Day O'Connor)
One of the things about equality is not just that you be treated equally to a man, but that you treat yourself equally to the way you treat a man. (Quote by - Marlo Thomas)
That's all true, but there was something else going on for me as a kid, something about my gender identity that I haven't figured out yet. And that's one of the things I'm hoping to dissect and investigate in this memoir project. (Quote by - Alison Bechdel)
Sexual, racial, gender violence and other forms of discrimination and violence in a culture cannot be eliminated without changing culture. (Quote by - Charlotte Bunch)
Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition. (Quote by - Timothy Leary)
When a woman behaves like a man, why doesn't she behave like a nice man? (Quote by - Edith Evans)
Advertisers in general bear a large part of the responsibility for the deep feelings of inadequacy that drive women to psychiatrists, pills, or the bottle. (Quote by - Marya Mannes)
Remember and help America remember that the fellowship of human beings is more important than the fellowship of race and class and gender in a democratic society. (Quote by - Marian Wright Edelman)
I'm just a person trapped inside a woman's body. (Quote by - Elaine Boosler)
Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, "She doesn't have what it takes." They will say, "Women don't have what it takes. (Quote by - Clare Boothe Luce)
Tomboys are an assertion of reality, of practicality. Forced femininity is a waste of energy and resources, and therefore of oneself. Live to live. (Quote by - Morgan Torva)
A man has every season while a woman only has the right to spring. (Quote by - Jane Fonda)
The reason there are so few female politicians is that it is too much trouble to put makeup on two faces. (Quote by - Maureen Murphy)
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. (Quote by - Ellen Ochoa)
Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry. (Quote by - Gloria Steinem)
Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man. (Quote by - Margaret Mead)
I appreciate the sentiment that I am a popular woman in computer gaming circles; but I prefer being thought of as a computer game designer rather than a woman computer game designer. I don't put myself into gender mode when designing a game. (Quote by - Roberta Williams)
We are a model country where gender equality is concerned. (Quote by - Tarja Halonen)
You don't have to be anti-man to be pro-woman. (Quote by - Jane Galvin Lewis)
Feminism is the radical notion that women are people. (Quote by - Cheris Kramarae and Paula Treichler)
Nobody objects to a woman being a good writer or sculptor or geneticist if at the same time she manages to be a good wife, a good mother, good-looking, good-tempered, well-dressed, well-groomed, and unaggressive. (Quote by - Marya Mannes)
Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men. (Quote by - Joseph Conrad)
Women are all female impersonators to some degree. (Quote by - Susan Brownmiller)
We need not just a new generation of leadership but a new gender of leadership (Quote by - Bill Clinton)
I don't think anyone should pick a candidate for any office based solely on gender. That would be, I believe, a mistake. (Quote by - Jim Nussle)
Gender equality is more than a goal in itself. It is a precondition for meeting the challenge of reducing poverty, promoting sustainable development and building good governance. (Quote by - Kofi Annan)
It's the equivalent of putting on the brakes suddenly while driving uphill. (Quote by - John Gunther)
Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison. (Quote by - Mary Wollstonecraft)
We were unusually brought up; there was no gender differentiation. I was never thought of as any less than my brother. (Quote by - Maya Lin)
Being a lady is an attitude. (Quote by - Chuck Woolery)
The world has never yet seen a truly great and virtuous nation because in the degradation of woman the very fountains of life are poisoned at their source. (Quote by - Lucretia Mott)
Every year I teach dozens of students at the University of Birmingham. Most of the students on the gender and sexuality courses are women. I guess this is because the boys don't think that gender applies to them: that it's a subject for girls. (Quote by - Louise Brown)
It's hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head. (Quote by - Sally Kempton)
Many beautiful women have been made happy by their own beauty, but no intelligent woman has ever been made happy by her own intelligence. (Quote by - Mignon McLaughlin)
Every American deserves to live in freedom, to have his or her privacy respected and a chance to go as far as their ability and effort will take them - regardless of race, gender, ethnicity or economic circumstances. (Quote by - Christopher Dodd)
I can't be a rose in any man's lapel. (Quote by - Margaret Trudeau)
No man is as anti-feminist as a really feminine woman. (Quote by - Frank O'Connor)
Resolved, that the women of this nation in 1876, have greater cause for discontent, rebellion and revolution than the men of 1776. (Quote by - Susan B. Anthony)
If you think about the way the hearings were structured, the hearings were really about Thomas' race and my gender. (Quote by - Anita Hill)
Nobody will ever win the Battle of the Sexes. There's just too much fraternizing with the enemy. (Quote by - Henry Kissinger)
The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it. (Quote by - Roseanne Barr)
Do not ghettoize society by putting people into legal categories of gender, race, ethnicity, language, or other such characteristics. (Quote by - Preston Manning)
If all men are born free, how is it that all women are born slaves? (Quote by - Mary Astell)
I just wish that every responsible and concerned person would step back regardless of race and gender and just take a closer look at what's really going on in the world today, and say enough is enough! (Quote by - Lonnie Earl Johnson)
There is no original or primary gender a drag imitates, but gender is a kind of imitation for which there is no original. (Quote by - Judith Butler)
It was we, the people; not we, the white male citizens; nor yet we, the male citizens; but we, the whole people, who formed the Union.... Men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less. (Quote by - Susan B. Anthony)
There are a lot of people who like to think they don't have prejudices and that they're open people, and yet, we all have that in ourselves, oftentimes against people of our own race or our own gender or whatever. (Quote by - Jim McKay)
Isn't that the problem? That women have been swindled for centuries into substituting adornment for love, fashion (as it were) for passion? (Quote by - Erica Jong)
Women are the only oppressed group in our society that lives in intimate association with their opressors. (Quote by - Evelyn Cunningham)
Instead of getting hard ourselves and trying to compete, women should try and give their best qualities to men - bring them softness, teach them how to cry. (Quote by - Joan Baez)
What is being called the UN 'gender architecture' is more like a shack. Women need a bigger global house if equality is ever to become a reality. (Quote by - Charlotte Bunch)
We have been very conditioned by the cultures that we come from and are usually very identified with the particular gender that we happen to be a member of. (Quote by - Andrew Cohen)
No woman is required to build the world by destroying herself. (Quote by - Rabbi Sofer)
I listen to feminists and all these radical gals - most of them are failures. They've blown it. Some of them have been married, but they married some Casper Milquetoast who asked permission to go to the bathroom. These women just need a man in the house. That's all they need. Most of the feminists need a man to tell them what time of day it is and to lead them home. And they blew it and they're mad at all men. Feminists hate men. They're sexist. They hate men - that's their problem. (Quote by - Jerry Falwell)
No one should have to dance backward all of their lives. (Quote by - Jill Ruckelshaus)
Women's chains have been forged by men, not by anatomy. (Quote by - Estelle R. Ramey)
Women are not the weak, frail little flowers that they are advertised. There has never been anything invented yet, including war, that a man would enter into, that a woman wouldn't, too. (Quote by - Will Rogers)
I think, therefore I'm single. (Quote by - Lizz Winstead)
All the English speakers, or almost all, have difficulties with the gender of words. (Quote by - Bernard Pivot)
Distinctly American poetry is usually written in the context of one's geographic landscape, sometimes out of one's cultural myths, and often with reference to gender and race or ethnic origins. (Quote by - Diane Wakoski)
It's definitely part of it, that the men were having fun and doing the interesting things but also, I don't know, I'm just thinking more about gender and how maybe in some way I am more of a boy than a girl. (Quote by - Alison Bechdel)
I've yet to be on a campus where most women weren't worrying about some aspect of combining marriage, children, and a career. I've yet to find one where many men were worrying about the same thing. (Quote by - Gloria Steinem)
If there's specific resistance to women making movies, I just choose to ignore that as an obstacle for two reasons: I can't change my gender, and I refuse to stop making movies. (Quote by - Kathryn Bigelow)
I don't see gender as the most significant fact of human existence. (Quote by - Jim Harrison)
American Idol transcends age, gender, ethnicity, everything. (Quote by - Carrie Underwood)
Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent. (Quote by - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche)
The feminine mystique has succeeded in burying millions of American women alive. (Quote by - Betty Friedan)
Not only is women's work never done, the definition keeps changing. (Quote by - Bill Copeland)
Men are irrelevant. Women are happy or unhappy, fulfilled or unfulfilled, and it has nothing to do with men. (Quote by - Fay Weldon)
I asked a Burmese why women, after centuries of following their men, now walk ahead. He said there were many unexploded land mines since the war. (Quote by - Robert Mueller)
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. (Quote by - Bianca Jagger)
My advice to the women's clubs of America is to raise more hell and fewer dahlias. (Quote by - James McNeill Whistler)
Whether women are better than men I cannot say - but I can say they are certainly no worse. (Quote by - Golda Meir)
I see my body as an instrument, rather than an ornament. (Quote by - Alanis Morissette, quoted in Reader's Digest, March 2000)
Gender consciousness has become involved in almost every intellectual field: history, literature, science, anthropology. There's been an extraordinary advance. (Quote by - Clifford Geertz)
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. (Quote by - Susan Powter)
I would have girls regard themselves not as adjectives but as nouns. (Quote by - Elizabeth Cady Stanton)
A woman is like a tea bag. It's only when she's in hot water that you realize how strong she is. (Quote by - Attributed to both Eleanor Roosevelt and Carl Sandburg)
Whether born from experience or inherent physiological or cultural differences our gender and national origins may and will make a difference in our judging. (Quote by - Sonia Sotomayor)
But let me tell you, this gender thing is history. You're looking at a guy who sat down with Margaret Thatcher across the table and talked about serious issues. (Quote by - George H. W. Bush)
I'm the result of upbringing, class, race, gender, social prejudices, and economics. So I'm a victim again. A result. (Quote by - James Hillman)
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. (Quote by - Jan Morris)
The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be the arrangement of your chromosomes. (Quote by - Bella Abzug)
We've begun to raise daughters more like sons... but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters. (Quote by - Gloria Steinem)
Our true nature is free of any and all notions of gender, of any notions of difference whatsoever. (Quote by - Andrew Cohen)
How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes! (Quote by - Maya Angelou)
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. (Quote by - Johnnetta Betsch Cole)
Most women are one man away from welfare. (Quote by - Gloria Steinem)
We haven't come a long way, we've come a short way. If we hadn't come a short way, no one would be calling us baby. (Quote by - Elizabeth Janeway)
There is a special place in hell for women who do not help other women. (Quote by - Madeleine K. Albright)
When the Nobel award came my way, it also gave me an opportunity to do something immediate and practical about my old obsessions, including literacy, basic health care and gender equity, aimed specifically at India and Bangladesh. (Quote by - Amartya Sen)
My idea here is that, inasmuch as certain cognitive tasks and principles are tied to nature's laws, these tasks and principles are indifferent to language, culture, gender, or the particular mode of information that is provided. (Quote by - Edward Tufte)
It's wonderful to watch a pretty woman with character grow beautiful. (Quote by - Mignon McLaughlin)
It matters more what's in a woman's face than what's on it. (Quote by - Claudette Colbert)
In the theory of gender I began from zero. There is no masculine power or privilege I did not covet. But slowly, step by step, decade by decade, I was forced to acknowledge that even a woman of abnormal will cannot escape her hormonal identity. (Quote by - Camille Paglia)
