Gender Quotes

• Men have influenced my activism and feminism both positively and negatively. As most gender differences are social, not genetic, we still need to change what we do and what we expect of each other... The potential exists for societies where men and women do not have to conform to unwanted stereotypes.

  

  Eva Cox
  • Change
  • Exists
  • Feminism

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

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

  

  Sheryl Swoopes
  • Court
  • Gender
  • Sexuality

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

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

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Thinking
  • Nature
  • Color

• 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

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

  

  Melanne Verveer
  • Responsibility
  • Obligation
  • Department

• 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

• We depend on manly characteristics to keep us safe. Every single one of the dead firemen heroes on 9/11 were men. This was one group where liberals didn't ask why there wasn't a more pleasing gender balance, because the Upper West Side is not fireproof. What happens in combat in some distant field is abstract to liberals, but they can understand the need to have strong, brave men in their fire department.

  

  Kate O'Beirne
  • Men
  • Strong
  • Balance

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Even in 'Hollyoaks,' we were known as 'the black family' as opposed to just 'the new family.' But that's where we are in the world, I guess. It's getting better; everything's heading in the right direction, whether it be race, sex, gender.

  

  Ricky Whittle
  • Family
  • Everything
  • Direction

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

  

  Susan Faludi
  • Gender
  • Varied
  • Individualistic

• 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

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