Gender Quotes

• We need not just a new generation of leadership but a new gender of leadership...

  

  Bill Clinton
  • Leadership
  • Generation
  • Gender

• What we need is a political and joyous alternative to the behaviorist discourse, the Christian discourse on evil or sin, and the convergence of the two in forms of gender policing that is tyrannical and destructive.

  

  Judith Butler
  • Christian
  • Sin
  • Gender

• We act as if that being of a man or that being of a woman is actually an internal reality or something that is simply true about us, a fact about us, but actually its a phenomenon that is being produced all the time and reproduced all the time, so to say gender is performative is to say that nobody really is a gender from the start.

  

  Judith Butler
  • Reality
  • Gender
  • Phenomenon

• If you go to Europe, public bathrooms have any-gender sink areas and stalls for everyone to use. This is completely reasonable. It potentially involves the destruction of the urinal industry, which I think people would be happy to see go away.

  

  Jill Soloway
  • Europe
  • Destruction
  • Bathroom

• 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

• Creating whole departments of ethnic, gender, and other 'studies' was part of the price of academic peace. All too often, these 'studies' are about propaganda rather than serious education.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Serious
  • Study
  • Creating

• I want to say that the way in which we understand gender actually changes the way we live gender.

  

  Judith Butler
  • Way
  • Changes
  • Gender

• We live in a world where there are a hell of a lot of new inputs that need to be factored in to your business. It used to be just about your employees and your customers. Now there are all the issues about global warming, about sustainability, about ethics and now about gender and the distribution of wealth.

  

  Stuart Rose
  • World
  • Wealth
  • Hell

• Take note that, before going any farther, I will give you the exact proportion of a man. Those of a woman I will disregard, for she does not have any set proportion.

  

  Cennino Cennini
  • Gender
  • Proportion
  • Disregard

• ... that gender is a choice, or that gender is a role, or that gender is a construction that one puts on, as one puts on clothes in the morning, that there is a 'one' who is prior to this gender, a one who goes to the wardrobe of gender and decides with deliberation which gender it will be today.

  

  Judith Butler
  • Choice
  • Role
  • Construction

• If you're reading this and you think that maybe you could love someone of the same gender or nongender, all I have to say to you is this: Congratulations! You're perfect and wonderful and more alive than you ever knew. Be proud of who you are because you're already more than enough.

  

  Hannah Hart
  • Love
  • Gender
  • Nongender

• It is paramount that we take control of the story behind our movement, which is that we seek equality for all Americans, no matter their race or gender.

  

  Eric Reid
  • Race
  • Movement
  • Americans

• Equal pay is not yet equal. A woman makes $0.77 on a dollar and women of color make $0.67... We feel so passionately about this because we are not only running for office, but we each, in our own way, have lived it. We have seen it. We have understood the pain and the injustice that has come because of race, because of gender. And it's imperative that... we make it very clear that each of us will address these issues.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Pain
  • Injustice
  • Gender

• I don't subscribe to that school of thought that leadership can be altogether defined by gender.

  

  Dalia Grybauskaite
  • School
  • Gender
  • Defined

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