Gender Quotes

• 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

• Gender data is important. If girls don’t have a birth certificate, how do we know how many are marrying as children?

  

  Kathy Calvin
  • Girls
  • Gender
  • Certificate

• Sexuality and gender don't change anyone's performance on the court.

  

  Sheryl Swoopes
  • Court
  • Gender
  • Sexuality

• My major obligation or responsibility is to work to integrate gender issues throughout the work of the State Department.

  

  Melanne Verveer
  • Responsibility
  • Obligation
  • Department

• Gender or skin color does not of itself determine the nature of a person's thinking.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Thinking
  • Nature
  • Color

• The image of God, then, involves gender identity and complementarity. God created gender in duality as male and female.

  

  Andrew Comiskey
  • Identity
  • Created
  • Gender

• 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
  • Struggle
  • Mechanism
  • Tricky

• 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
  • Age
  • Identity
  • Intimacy

• 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
  • Focus
  • Gender
  • Issue

• 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
  • Trouble
  • Author
  • Questions

• 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

• 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. Read more at https://www.brainyquote.com/authors/nicole-maines-quotes_2

  

  Nicole Maines
  • Society
  • Built
  • Binary

• 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
  • Past
  • Leadership
  • Leader

• 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
  • Changes
  • Consider
  • Communities

• 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
  • Gender
  • Criticized
  • Electronic Music

• 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
  • Person
  • Gender
  • Transition

• Because it's important. Laws can be reversed, Supreme Court decisions can be overturned, gender classifications can continue.

  

  Carolyn Maloney
  • Important
  • Decision
  • Court

• Gender is a spectrum, and that's something that a lot of folks don't understand.

  

  Nicole Maines
  • Understand
  • Gender
  • Spectrum

• …gender is not sane. It's not sane to call a rainbow black and white.

  

  Kate Bornstein
  • Gender
  • Rainbow
  • Black-and-white

• 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
  • Identity
  • Birth
  • Assigned

• I do think that people have a desire to talk about issues they may have wanted to avoid before. I've never had so many random conversations with people where they're so ready to talk about race, gender, sexual identity, or things that are happening in politics.

  

  Sasheer Zamata
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Desire

• For me, a director is a director immaterial of the gender. At the end of the day, the audience is only interested in watching a good film.

  

  Boman Irani
  • Audience
  • Director
  • Good Film

• The big trick is just to get to a point where we're just considered DPs, and we're not 'female DPs.' When you think of the word 'doctor' or 'teacher,' you don't think gender. And it would be nice to get to a place where 'DP' meant either and 'director' meant either and 'gaffer' meant either.

  

  Rachel Morrison
  • Think
  • Nice
  • Teacher

• She dearly hoped her gender would not be a problem because she did not have the time to educate a man on the fine points of what a woman of the nineteenth century could achieve.

  

  Beverly Jenkins
  • Problem
  • Achieve
  • Educate

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