Gender Quotes

There are many different rivers that lead into despair: there's poverty; there's political repression; there's gender apartheid - there's a sense of culture loss; there's religious fanaticism. (Lawrence Wright)
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. View quote
Judith Butler
There is no gender identity behind the expressions of gender; that identity is performatively constituted by the very "expressions" that are said to be its results. View quote
Judith Butler
I'm the result of upbringing, class, race, gender, social prejudices, and economics. So I'm a victim again. A result. View quote
James Hillman
My father values talent. He recognizes real knowledge and skill when he finds it. He is color blind and gender neutral. He hires the best person for the job, period. View quote
Ivanka Trump
When a human being becomes so still that they begin to lose awareness of their gender, and they are simply looking into that abyss where there is no notion of self whatsoever, the world disappears. And that's really the only place to go. It's the only place to remain. View quote
Andrew Cohen
But the issue of sexual harassment is not the end of it. There are other issues - political issues, gender issues - that people need to be educated about. View quote
Anita Hill
Distinctly American poetry is usually written in the context of one's geographic landscape, sometimes out of one's cultural myths, and often with reference to gender and race or ethnic origins. View quote
Diane Wakoski
I think we're struggling with trying to redefine various positions at this point in history. To allow freedom for women, freedom for men, freedom from those sharply defined gender roles. View quote
Fred Ward
If there's specific resistance to women making movies, I just choose to ignore that as an obstacle for two reasons: I can't change my gender, and I refuse to stop making movies. View quote
Kathryn Bigelow
In an essay 10 years ago, I pointed out that it is utterly logical for polygamy rights to follow gay rights. After all, if traditional marriage is defined as the union of (1) two people of (2) opposite gender, and if, as advocates of gay marriage insist, the gender requirement is nothing but prejudice, exclusion and an arbitrary denial of one's autonomous choices in love, then the first requirement - the number restriction (two and only two) - is a similarly arbitrary, discriminatory and indefensible denial of individual choice. (Charles Krauthammer)
Gender equality is more than a goal in itself. It is a precondition for meeting the challenge of reducing poverty, promoting sustainable development and building good governance. View quote
Kofi Annan
The problem with gender is that it prescribes how we should be rather than recognizing how we are. Imagine how much happier we would be, how much freer to be our true individual selves, if we didn't have the weight of gender expectations. View quote
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
You think intercourse is a private act; it's not, it's a social act. Men are sexually predatory in life; and women are sexually manipulative. When two individuals come together and leave their gender outside the bedroom door, then they make love. View quote
Andrea Dworkin
There can be no more thrilling idea of intimacy than 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...the person who wants to read what I have written. View quote
Will Self
We don't have a clue what it is to be male or female, or if there are intermediate genders. Male and female might be fields which overlap into androgyny or different kinds of sexual desires. But because we live in a Western, patriarchal world, we have very little chance of exploring these gender possibilities. View quote
Kathy Acker
Gender equality is more successful than armed force. View quote
José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero
As a dedicated, successful writer, Lydia Sigourney violated essential elements of the very gender roles she celebrated. In the process, she offered young, aspiring women writers around the country an example of the possibilities of achieving both fame and economic reward. View quote
Lydia Sigourney
Thought has no gender. View quote
Vanna Bonta
I mean, I absolutely call myself a feminist. And by that, I mean a woman who believes that your opportunities should not be constrained by your gender, that women should be entitled to the same opportunities as men. View quote
Ayelet Waldman
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)
Women and men are divided by gender, made into the sexes as we know them, by the social requirements of heterosexuality, which institutionalizes male sexual dominance and female sexual submission. View quote
Catharine MacKinnon
I believe all men, all women, regardless of race, gender, socioeconomic background, you deserve the same rights. View quote
Sophia Bush
In my experience, desire is desire, love is love. I have never fallen in love with a gender. I have fallen for individuals. View quote
David Levithan
The Statue of Liberty's gender changed nothing. It was the same here as anywhere: men and their wars. View quote
Jeffrey Eugenides