Gender Quotes

• 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

• Surgical intervention can be precisely what a trans person needs - it is also not always what a trans person needs. Either way, one should be free to determine the course of one's gendered life.

  

  Judith Butler
  • Free
  • Needs
  • Gender

• It seems to me that "Gender trouble" will always be important to try and open up our ideas of what gender is. So, I don't know if it's revolutionary, but maybe it still has something to say to those issues.

  

  Judith Butler
  • Trouble
  • Gender
  • Revolutionary

• Homosexuality is a psychological and psychiatric disorder, there is no question about it. It is a purple menace that is threatening the proper design of gender distinctions in society.

  

  Charles W. Socarides
  • Homosexuality
  • Disorder
  • Proper

• The general public have a warped view of the speed at which an investigation proceeds. They like to imagine tense conversations going on behind the venetian blinds and unshaven, but ruggedly handsome, detectives working themselves with single-minded devotion into the bottle and marital breakdown. The truth is that at the end of the day, unless you've generated some sort of lead, you go home and get on with the important things in life - like drinking and sleeping, and if you're lucky, a relationship with the gender and sexual orientation of your choice.

  

  Ben Aaronovitch
  • Relationship
  • Public
  • Investigation

• I am much more open about categories of gender, and my feminism has been about women's safety from violence, increased literacy, decreased poverty and more equality.

  

  Judith Butler
  • Violence
  • Poverty
  • Feminism

• We put a gender lens on our whole value chain.

  

  Paul Polman
  • Value
  • Gender
  • Chain

• I think it's about having a competent president, and I don't really think gender has to do with how Hillary Clinton will lead.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • President
  • Lead
  • Gender

• It's a good thing I was born a girl, otherwise I'd be a drag queen.

  

  Dolly Parton
  • Girl
  • Gender

• We will ask two central questions throughout this course: 1. What difference does gender make? 2. For which women does it make a difference? Which women?

  

  Estelle Freedman
  • Women
  • Difference
  • Gender

• You are a much more forceful advocate against gender bias and wage inequality if you actually hire women. If you are a white man who advocates for change, then hire someone other than a white man as an example of that change.

  

  Nina Shaw
  • Example
  • Gender
  • Hire

• 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

• Gender is a kind of imitation for which there is no original; in fact, it is a kind of imitation that produces the very notion of the original as an effect and consequence of the imitation itself.

  

  Judith Butler
  • Consequence
  • Gender
  • Imitation

• Perception, after all, is not simply a matter of what you believe about yourself, it all encompasses what others think about you, and what has been thought of you historically. I say we can pay attention to those other dimensions of our identity - class, gender, sexual orientation, geographical region - while at the same time understanding how our historically produced racial identity continues to serve, or undercut us.

  

  Michael Eric Dyson
  • Attention
  • Understanding
  • Identity

• Also, I had read a book called She's Not There: A Life in Two Genders, written by a professor who had gone through transgender surgery, but it took this person well into his thirties to come to terms with the absolute necessity of having to do it.

  

  Mercedes Ruehl
  • Persons
  • Professors
  • Absolutes

• That, to me, is what I feel like is the future. If I have a daughter, if you have a daughter, becoming that ideal where it's not about your gender; it's about us being human, being in this together.

  

  Bethany Cosentino
  • Human
  • Daughter
  • Ideal

• Stopped as attribute of a person, sex inequality takes the form of gender; moving as a relation between people, it takes the form of sexuality. Gender emerges as the congealed form of the sexualization of inequaltiy between men and women.

  

  Catharine MacKinnon
  • People
  • Moving
  • Relation

• 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

• I see the effects of sexual and gender liberation all around me, just like you do, but I don't have a sense of being in the majority.

  

  Susie Bright
  • Gender
  • Majority
  • Liberation

• Every taxi driver I have ever spoken to has a theory of gender.

  

  Judith Butler
  • Theory
  • Gender
  • TAXI DRIVER

• 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

• To say that gender is performative is a little different because for something to be performative means that it produces a series of effects. We act and walk and speak and talk in ways that consolidate an impression of being a man or being a woman.

  

  Judith Butler
  • Man
  • Woman
  • Walk

• Capitalism knows only one color: that color is green; all else is necessarily subservient to it, hence, race, gender and ethnicity cannot be considered within it.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Color
  • Economy
  • Race

• The pandemic of AIDS is a gender-based disease.

  

  Stephen Lewis
  • Disease
  • Gender
  • Aids

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