Gender Quotes

• There is no original or primary gender a drag imitates, but gender is a kind of imitation for which there is no original.

  

  Judith Butler
  • Gender
  • Imitation
  • Original

• How the hell can you change gender in the rural areas? I am a woman. We don't have good doctors; we are not rich to do such procedures.

  

  Caster Semenya
  • Change
  • Woman
  • Doctors

• MMI brothers were very resistant to women such as Lynn Shiflet and others who emerged as leaders within the OAAU, so one of the tensions that occurred was around gender equality and gender leadership inside of Malcolm's X entourage.

  

  Manning Marable
  • Women
  • Brother
  • Leadership

• I will do comedy until the day I die: inappropriate comedy, funny comedy, gender-bending, twisting comedy, whatever comedy is out there.

  

  Sandra Bullock
  • Comedy
  • Dies
  • Inappropriate

• 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.

  

  Cara Santa Maria
  • Different
  • Approach
  • Discussion

• Sisterhood cannot be assumed on the basis of gender; it must be forged in concrete historical and political practice and analysis

  

  Chandra Talpade Mohanty
  • Political
  • Historical
  • Analysis

• Women and men are divided by gender, made into the sexes as we know them, by the social requirements of heterosexuality, which institutionalizes male sexual dominance and female sexual submission.

  

  Catharine MacKinnon
  • Social
  • Female
  • Submission

• As a gender variant visual artist I access 'technologies of gender' in order to amplify rather than erase the hermaphroditic traces of my body. I name myself. A gender abolitionist. A part time gender terrorist. An intentional mutation and intersex by design, (as opposed to diagnosis), in order to distinguish my journey from the thousands of intersex individuals who have had their 'ambiguous' bodies mutilated and disfigured in a misguided attempt at 'normalization'. I believe in crossing the line as many times as it takes to build a bridge we can all walk across.

  

  Del LaGrace Volcano
  • Build
  • Individuals
  • Technologies

• Don't make it about your gender or about your looks, make it solely about the music.

  

  Nora En Pure
  • Music
  • Looks
  • Gender

• I understand why some women/girls/ladies don't want to be women-identified 'cuz it totally complicates your band identity and no one seems to pay much attention to the music or what you're doing. We have chosen to be girl-identified (although Billy isn't a girl!), because we want to encourage other women/girls to play music. When I was growing up, I found it discouraging to have all these women in bands not wanting to address the issue of gender...we're interested in what women are doing.

  

  Tobi Vail Bikini Kill
  • Attention
  • Identity
  • Discouraging

• Scientists who do deny their politics—who claim to be objective and unemotional about gender while living in a world where even boats and automobiles are identified by sex—are fooling both themselves and the public at large.

  

  Anne Fausto-Sterling
  • Politics
  • Gender
  • Identified

• The United States are such a large place. And there are some states and some cities where the questions of gender or sexuality would not be asked, or where scholars or academics are working in small little corners of the universities trying to raise these questions and being told that either that they're strange or not appropriate or being actively opposed. There are other places where there is very active scholarship going on. Certainly on gender.

  

  Judith Butler
  • United States
  • Scholarship
  • Universities

• When feminism does not explicitly oppose racism, and when antiracism does not incorporate opposition to patriarchy, race and gender politics often end up being antagonistic to each other and both interests lose.

  

  Kimberle Williams Crenshaw
  • Racism
  • Feminism
  • Sexism

• So please, for the love of gender- go bloom. Or water someone else while they do.

  

  S. Bear Bergman
  • Water
  • Gender
  • Please

• I've always been interested in writing from other people's perspectives and other gender perspectives.

  

  Bradford Cox
  • Interested
  • Gender
  • Perspectives

• Someone said to me that we have to encourage more young women to want top-level editing jobs. I think that will happen naturally as we have more role models, more examples of boss ladies who aren't sad and cruel and overworked and undersexed like in DevilWearsPrada, but who are straight-up owning it and notable not for their gender but for their editorial savvy.

  

  Ann Friedman
  • Jobs
  • Boss
  • Example

• 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.'

  

  James Cook
  • Job
  • Promotion
  • Subsidy

• I'm sure that a lot of women and men feel differently about it, but for me this isn't about being the girl in the band... it's just about being IN the band, if that makes sense? We're trying to keep it in a pure and genuine place for us and not break it down to gender, because it's just a bit boring and obvious isn't it?

  

  Lauren Mayberry Chvrches
  • Men
  • Trying
  • Girl

• Even if an alcoholic is powerless over alcohol once it enters his body, he still makes a choice to drink. And, even if someone is attracted to a person of the same sex, he or she still makes a choice to engage in sexual activity with someone of the same gender.

  

  Rick Perry
  • Choices
  • Drink
  • Alcohol

• I've been exploring gender performativity in the Gulf since I was a teenager. I'm not a gender anthropologist, but I feel like there's an extreme binary between femininity and masculinity in the Gulf. From a young age, I knew I didn't want to be part of it. Gender is a huge gray area, and the problem with defined roles is that they cover up undefined ones.

  

  Ayshay
  • Problem
  • Roles
  • Gender

• There was no real gender definition in the sense of how you treat people in those days with gender differences. You avoided them. My parents always told me that you do not make fun of anybody, and so I didn't see anything funny about it.

  

  David C. Driskell
  • Funny
  • Differences
  • Gender

• 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.

  

  Gemma Cairney
  • Everything
  • Equal
  • Ourselves

• That's the main work that I've done in my life - really wanting to get past that gender trap where there's a certain nudity in poetry. It's not about showing my soul, it's about observations.

  

  Emily Haines Broken Social Scene
  • Done
  • Soul
  • Past

• There is a massive gender imbalance on TV

  

  Dawn O'Porter
  • Gender
  • Massive
  • Imbalance

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