Gender Quotes

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Different though the sexes are, they inter-mix. In every human being a vacillation from one sex to the other takes place, and often it is only the clothes that keep the male or female likeness, while underneath the sex is very opposite of what it is above.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Different
  • Clothes
  • Female

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

  

  Susan Faludi
  • Gender
  • Varied
  • Individualistic

• 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

• We have all of us the two natures - the brother and the sister! Not one of us is quite woman - not one of us is all man!

  

  Katherine Cecil Thurston
  • Men
  • Woman
  • Brother

• 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

• 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

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

  

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

• 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

• I hope to be viewed and judged first and foremost by my accomplishments and capabilities as a leader - regardless of my gender.

  

  Heather Bresch
  • Leader
  • Gender
  • Capabilities

• 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

• 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

• Whatever your gender, you can be a Star Wars fan. Of course I knew it from life before, but the core of enthusiastic female fans is a testimony to the non-gendered nature of the audience.

  

  Cass Sunstein
  • War
  • Female
  • Gender

• I do believe that it's something that we don't talk about, but when there are clearly defined gender roles, it is much simpler. Because you don't have to think, which people apparently don't like to do.

  

  Judy Gold
  • Roles
  • Gender
  • Defined

• It's not enough to vent about what you don't like on social media. I would ask everyone who can, men included, to get involved in an organisation actively working for gender equality.

  

  Catherine Mayer
  • Enough
  • Gender
  • Organisation

• 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

• It has nothing to do with age, it's not our languages, religion, gender, coulour of our skin; It's a soul within a well, that echoes deep beneath the ego's shell. True life can't ever start, until we offer up our heart.

  

  Dawud Wharnsby Ali
  • Heart
  • Age
  • Soul

• My gender has never been an issue or a limitation. I was fortunate enough to be surrounded by strong women growing up, and with them as my role models, I was never limited by the traditional roles women find themselves in.

  

  Brenda Brathwaite
  • Fortunate
  • Issue
  • Limitation

• Few professors would dare to publish research or teach a course debunking the claims made in various ethnic, gender, or other 'studies' courses.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Study
  • Teach
  • Dare

• 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 think we have to accept a wide variety of positions on gender. Some want to be gender-free, but others want to be free really to be a gender that is crucial to who they are.

  

  Judith Butler
  • I Think
  • Gender
  • Variety

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