Gender Quotes
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Some people look gender non-conforming because they want to look that way - they don't want to conform to society's expectations.
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I grew up in a cloistered, conservative culture that adhered to strict gender roles. So it's easy to understand why the 'girl dressed as a boy' trope resonated so much. In a world that didn't want to give people like me adventures or significance, books with cross-dressing girls were treasures.
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And think of how we challenged the idea of a male dominated Parliament with All-Women shortlists and made the cause of gender equality central to our government. We were right to do so.
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Calling gender violence a women's issue is part of the problem. It gives a lot of men an excuse not to pay attention.
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Typical news accounts and commentaries about school shootings and rampage killings rarely mention gender.
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You don't go out and change your gender for a television show, O.K.? It ain't happening. I don't care who you are.
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Age and gender, nationality and religion, what language you use - all of that isn’t important to me.
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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.
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It is important to note that there exist vast gender differences in the global role of papillomaviruses in human cancers. This is mainly due to the role of this virus family in the induction of cancer of the cervix.
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Why does 'writer' have no gender, but 'actor' has a gender? What is that?
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My roles in the '80s were, like, gender dysphoric. I wasn't pretty, I wasn't this, I wasn't that. And I am kind of butchy, you know. That's just my thing.
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Gender equality and women's empowerment have been a top priority for me from day one as Secretary-General. And I am committed to making sure that the U.N. leads by example.
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There is no gender to my music. There's no male or female voice, no trite lyrics or poetry. It's much more abstract, so it lives with you longer.
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I was a weird but definite kid, and there were essentially no gender roles for me to fit into.
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You just wish sometimes that people would treat you like a human being rather than seeing your gender first and who you are second.
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I feel like there's no such thing as gender.
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So many people go through life, and they never deal with their own issues, no matter what the issues are - ours happen to be gender identity. But, how many people go through life and just waste an entire life 'cause they'd never deal with themselves to be who they are.
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When it comes to swag, there's no gender involved.
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Democrats hate stay-at-home spouses, no matter what gender or gender preference.
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I call for greater measures to involve more women at higher levels in mine action. Governments should do more to address gender in their mine action programmes and through their implementation of the Anti-personnel Mine Ban Convention.
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When you are in a small rural place with cold weather and a lot of granite, you need people who are going to work hard, and you really stop worrying about what gender they are.
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I'm not sure how to put this, but I didn't want things like gender transition to be, like, the money shot in talking about bodily change. The truth is that we are all changing all the time to each other. Anybody who's been in a relationship for more than a year, more than five years, knows this.
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Sometimes it's not even a role that's specifically written for a woman. It could be a role written for a white man or Asian man, or Latino. If it's something that I feel I could do well, I go after it. Especially if it's nothing that has to be gender or race specific, I'm all over it.
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Sexuality is who you are personally attracted to... But gender identity is who you are in your soul.
