Gender Quotes

• 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

• 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

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

  

  Andrew Comiskey
  • Identity
  • Created
  • Gender

• 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

• 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

• 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

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

  

  Sheryl Swoopes
  • Court
  • Gender
  • Sexuality

• 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

• 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

• I guess I'd just been thinking about it for so long that I forgot changing your gender was not even a question for most people. They just took for granted being a boy or a girl. I couldn't imagine what it would be like to be so sure of yourself.

  

  Ellen Wittlinger
  • Thinking
  • Girl
  • Changing

• 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

• 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

• 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

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

  

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

• 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

• 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 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

• There is a plan and a purpose, a value to every life, no matter what its location, age, gender or disability.

  

  Sharron Angle
  • Purpose
  • Location
  • Disability

• 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

• Do we need recourse to a happier state before the law in order to maintain that contemporary gender relations and the punitive production of gender identities are oppressive?

  

  Judith Butler
  • Relations
  • Maintain
  • Identities

• Regardless of gender, marital status, or age, individuals can choose to link themselves directly to the Savior, hold fast to the rod of His truth, and lead by the light of that truth. By so doing, they become examples of righteousness to whom others will want to cling.

  

  Russell M. Nelson
  • Age
  • Individual
  • Gender

• 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

• 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

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