Gender Quotes
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My major obligation or responsibility is to work to integrate gender issues throughout the work of the State Department.
Melanne Verveer
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Gender data is important. If girls don’t have a birth certificate, how do we know how many are marrying as children?
Kathy Calvin
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Gender or skin color does not of itself determine the nature of a person's thinking.
Marianne Williamson
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The image of God, then, involves gender identity and complementarity. God created gender in duality as male and female.
Andrew Comiskey
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There can be no more thrilling idea of intimacy that connecting with someone through the agency of the written word. Here we meet, on the page, naked and unadorned: shorn of class, race, gender, sexual identity, age and nationality. The reader I seek is a tautology, for he/she is simply exactly the person who wants to read what I have written...
Will Self
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Gender is used as a control mechanism that's just wrong. Gender is never anything to struggle with; gender is something to play with. Once you're free of the rules that all these hierarchical, oppressive systems place on gender, that's the tricky part.
Kate Bornstein
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I have simply taken some of the same questions and reposed them in new ways. But, you see, I must live. Right? I mean I can't stay the same for everyone to be consumed as the author of "Gender trouble". I have to continue to live and that means I have to "reposer les questions".
Judith Butler
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Setting aside the issue of gender while highlighting the symmetry of bodies seemed indispensable in order to focus on the narrative of human beings in the making.
Alante Kavaite
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I think our society has sort of built this gender binary, and the way we've said it exists does not really exist in nature.
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Nicole Maines
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Electronic music is about brains. It is about the quality of the music, what the music conveys and the person, who created it. I would like to see music, like any other art form and craft perceived and criticized based on these premises only and not by gender.
Nic Endo
Atari Teenage Rio
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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
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After the events of last week, I'm appalled at the standard Australia seems to be willing to accept in regards to its own behaviour and the behaviour of our leaders. Accuse me of playing the gender card all you like, but I will not walk past it any more. You might consider joining me.
Clementine Ford
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Historians will look back on this era and how the Internet changed what we value, what we consider art, the way we think, the way we define what it means to be human. In Sincerity and Authenticity, Lionel Trilling describes the changes that occurred between about 1850 and 1920, due to the Industrial Revolution and the resulting migration of people from small communities to relative anonymity in cities. Because of that paradigm shift, ideas about what it means to be an individual underwent a transformation that leeched into all areas. Art, psychology, history, marriage, gender.
Debra Monroe
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Gender transition isn't about gender. It's about literally making yourself a better person because you know that's a better you.
Vivienne Ming
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Gender is a spectrum, and that's something that a lot of folks don't understand.
Nicole Maines
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The first thing that's really important to understand, just when approaching the topic of transgender people, is that the sex you're assigned with at birth is not the same as your gender identity.
Nicole Maines
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Because it's important. Laws can be reversed, Supreme Court decisions can be overturned, gender classifications can continue.
Carolyn Maloney
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…gender is not sane. It's not sane to call a rainbow black and white.
Kate Bornstein