Gender Quotes

• 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

• I did not mean to argue that gender is fluid and changeable (mine certainly is not). I only meant to say that we should all have greater freedoms to define and pursue our lives without pathologization, de-realization, harassment, threats of violence, violence, and criminalization. I join in the struggle to realize such a world.

  

  Judith Butler
  • Gender
  • Freedoms
  • Criminalization

• 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

• 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

• 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.

  

  Seamus Heaney
  • Fall
  • Here
  • Phrase

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

  

  Nora En Pure
  • Music
  • Looks
  • Gender

• 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

• You don't fall in love with a gender, you fall in love with a person.

  

  Andy Biersack Black Veil Brides
  • Fall
  • Persons
  • Brides

• 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

• 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

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

  

  Bradford Cox
  • Interested
  • Gender
  • Perspectives

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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
  • Universities
  • Scholarship

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

  

  S. Bear Bergman
  • Water
  • Gender
  • Please

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Love is pure and true; love knows no gender.

  

  Tori Spelling
  • True
  • Love Is
  • Gender

• I have also been invited to talk to psychologists and psychoanalysts and I liked that very much. Because, they are the ones who are bringing a lot of very, you know, problematic ideas about sexuality and gender into psychiatric and psychological settings. And I like having some influence there.

  

  Judith Butler
  • Influence
  • Gender
  • Psychoanalysts

• No matter whether one feels one's gendered and sexed reality to be firmly fixed or less so, every person should have the right to determine the legal and linguistic terms of their embodied lives. So whether one wants to be free to live out a "hard-wired" sense of sex or a more fluid sense of gender, is less important than the right to be free to live it out, without discrimination, harassment, injury, pathologization or criminalization - and with full institutional and community support.

  

  Judith Butler
  • Reality
  • Support
  • Sense Of Sex

• 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

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