Gender Quotes

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

  

  Andrew Comiskey
  • Identity
  • Created
  • Gender

• I think there's a lot of scope in broadening the way videogames approach depictions of masculinity, which is still extremely narrow in scope. It would be nice to see a panel about gender in videogames and it not just be about one gender!

  

  Neil Druckmann
  • Gender
  • Video Games
  • Masculinity

• My feminist view - that gender is on a continuum and we are all better off dropping a lot of those binary notions - is one that is shared by the more recent generation of trans activists and theorists.

  

  Susan Faludi
  • Activists
  • Continuum
  • Theorists

• I identify with other women because of my gender, and I identify with other women if they are mothers because I'm a mother, too. It's very simple. It's nothing complicated, it's not rocket science. It's about empathy. It's about understanding that what happens with one person is potentially what happens to you, and seeing yourself in someone else's shoes. Fundamentally, we are all in the same place: we're born, we live, and we're going to die. In between, we'll have joy and we'll have sadness.

  

  Annie Lennox Eurythmics
  • Mother
  • Joy
  • Empathy

• 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

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

  

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

• If you have a conversation "Why is it you think masculinity is linked with heterosexuality? Or why is it you think masculinity is linked with sexual dominance or the sexually active position in the sex act?" If you start to ask people those questions, then they realize "Maybe gender is not one thing. Maybe I have collected a number of things under one category and I've made a mistake".

  

  Judith Butler
  • Mistake
  • Conversation
  • Heterosexuality

• The gaming industry is a fairly liberal, hip place, and if you're making games people really don't care what your gender is. At least this has been my experience.

  

  Brenda Brathwaite
  • Experience
  • Games
  • Industry

• Everyone has a set of presuppositions: what gender is, what it's not. And they may not write them out or they may not be in theoretical books published by Routledge, but they have a theory.

  

  Judith Butler
  • Write
  • Theory
  • 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

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

  

  Tori Spelling
  • True
  • Love Is
  • Gender

• We are not defined by our species any more than our nationality or our gender. What we do, our choices, that's what defines us.

  

  Carrie Jones
  • Choices
  • Defined
  • Nationality

• 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

• I'm glad people see some of the stories that way. I see where they're coming from, although none of the stories are specifically intended to arouse. There is a gender divide on the short story "The Girlfriend Game" - women seem to consider it "sexy" but men usually find it uncomfortable.

  

  Nick Antosca
  • People
  • Sexy
  • Girlfriend

• We had the fun of being outlaws. But there's a whole generation now coming up with new gender identities. For this generation of kids who don't think that being gay is anything special, they might be more interesting than any of us.

  

  Dale Peck
  • Interesting
  • Generation
  • Identities

• Some trans people thought that in claiming that gender is performative that I was saying that it is all a fiction, and that a person's felt sense of gender was therefore "unreal." That was never my intention. I sought to expand our sense of what gender realities could be. But I think I needed to pay more attention to what people feel, how the primary experience of the body is registered, and the quite urgent and legitimate demand to have those aspects of sex recognized and supported.

  

  Judith Butler
  • People
  • Realities
  • Supported

• There is a massive gender imbalance on TV

  

  Dawn O'Porter
  • Gender
  • Massive
  • Imbalance

• My advice for other female directors: don't think of your gender as a handicap. Don't think about it at all. Just tell the best story you can, and don't stop until you do.

  

  Reed Morano
  • Stop
  • Advice
  • Story

• Just being gender non-conforming opens you to trouble from strangers. And violence.

  

  Ezra Furman
  • Violence
  • Trouble
  • Strangers

• Gender is really varied and complicated and sort of infinitely individualistic.

  

  Susan Faludi
  • Gender
  • Varied
  • Individualistic

• 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
  • Issue
  • Gender

• Feminism is the theory of gender oppression. To assume automatically that this makes it the theory of sexual oppression is to fail to distinguish between gender, on the one hand, and erotic desire, on the other.

  

  Gayle Rubin
  • Gender
  • Feminism
  • Oppression

• The ideal reader's the same, and I suppose this person has never had a face or a gender or an age. It's just some kind of unknown other who will be sympathetic and read each word carefully and understand what I'm writing about. I suppose every writer feels this.

  

  Paul Auster
  • Writing
  • Age
  • Kind

• Drag completely helps you explore your gender and allows you to do so in a freeing, kinda liberating way as well because you’re performing in front of an audience.

  

  Adore Delano
  • Explore
  • Gender
  • Drag

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