Gender Quotes

• 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

• Look, "Gender trouble" includes a critique of the idea that there are two ideal bodily forms, two ideal morphologies: the masculine and the feminine. I want to suggest that today the intersex movement is very engaged with criticizing that idea.

  

  Judith Butler
  • Trouble
  • Movement
  • Gender

• 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

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

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Thinking
  • Nature
  • Color

• 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

• Suffer women once to arrive at an equality with you, and they will from that moment become your superiors.

  

  Cato the Elder
  • Moments
  • Suffering
  • Gender

• Gender discrimination has had a twofold destructive effect on society. Firstly, it has opened society to slavery; second, all other forms of enslavement have been implemented on the basis of housewifisation.

  

  Abdullah Ocalan
  • Slavery
  • Gender
  • Discrimination

• 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

• What's amazing about this show Westworld, and what it gives us permission to do, is to be kind of superhuman. Because at the end of the day, Dolores she's not a male and she's not a female. She's evolved past that. She's a very highly advanced being, and so I think it's really going to knock down a lot of stereotypes and a lot of gender roles and be a neutral party.

  

  Evan Rachel Wood
  • Roles
  • Female
  • Stereotypes

• 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

• 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

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

  

  Sheryl Swoopes
  • Court
  • Gender
  • Sexuality

• 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

• When we say gender is performed, we usually mean that weve taken on a role or were acting in some way and that our acting or our role playing is crucial to the gender that we are and the gender that we present to the world.

  

  Emily Dickinson
  • Playing
  • Role
  • Gender

• 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

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

  

  Susan Faludi
  • Gender
  • Varied
  • Individualistic

• Intersectionality has made an important contribution to social and political analysis, asking all of us to think about what assumptions of race and class we make when we speak about "women" or what assumptions of gender and race we make when we speak about "class." It allows us to unpack those categories and see the various kinds of social formations and power relations that constitute those categories.

  

  Judith Butler
  • Gender
  • Relations
  • Intersectionality

• 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

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

  

  Nicole Maines
  • Understand
  • Gender
  • Spectrum

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

  

  Melanne Verveer
  • Responsibility
  • Obligation
  • Department

• 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

• It's difficult to write a book where a character is on virtually every page of the book but you cannot refer to his or her gender. It gets rid of every his, her, she and he.

  

  William Lewis Trogdon
  • Writing
  • Character
  • Book

• 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

• 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

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