1.
Women should be treated as human beings, not as domestic animals.
Averroes
Women should be regarded as people, not beasts of burden.
2.
Gender is not something that one is, it is something one does, an act… a doing rather than a being.
Judith Butler
Gender is not something that one possesses, it is something one performs, an action... a doing rather than an existence.
3.
We are born as who we are, the gender thing is something that is imposed on you.
Laverne Cox
We are born with our own individual identity, the gender labeling is something that is externally imposed.
4.
There is no gender identity behind the expressions of gender... identity is performatively constituted by the very 'expressions' that are said to be its results.
Judith Butler
5.
I was a liberated woman long before there was a name for it.
Peggy Guggenheim
6.
There’s no such thing as sexism against men. That's because sexism is prejudice + power. Men are the dominant gender with power in society.
Anita Sarkeesian
7.
Gender is between your ears and not between your legs.
Chaz Bono
8.
People fall in love with a person, not a gender or an age.
Darren Criss
10.
For the most part, I definitely don't identify as any gender. I'm not a guy; I don't really feel like a woman, but obviously I was born one.
Ruby Rose
11.
Thus, gender ideology no only creates ides about femininity but it also shapes conceptions of masculinity.
Patricia Hill Collins
12.
Our notions of what a human being is problematically depend on there being two coherent genders. And if someone doesn't comply with either the masculine norm or the feminine norm, their very humaness is called into question.
Judith Butler
13.
I am not an angel," I asserted; "and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself.
Charlotte Bronte
14.
The power I exert on the court depends on the power of the power of my arguments, not my gender
Sandra Day O'Connor
15.
It is a curious thing to be a woman in the Caribbean after you have been a woman in these United States.
Zora Neale Hurston
16.
…gender is not sane. It's not sane to call a rainbow black and white.
Kate Bornstein
17.
I find the question of whether gender differences are biologically determined or socially constructed to be deeply disturbing.
Carol Gilligan
18.
Part of the reason images of women in positions of authority are marked by their gender is that the very notion of authority is associated with maleness.
Deborah Tannen
19.
Gender inequality is not one problem, it's a collection of problems.
Amartya Sen
20.
I am very gender-fluid and feel more like I wake up every day sort of gender neutral.
Ruby Rose
21.
The problem with gender is that it prescribes how we should be, rather than recognising how we are.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
22.
I don't see gender as the most significant fact of human existence.
Jim Harrison
23.
As far as I'm concerned, being any gender is a drag.
Patti Smith
24.
I love to be individual, to step beyond gender.
Annie Lennox
25.
Any serious shift towards more sustainable societies has to include gender equality.
Helen Clark
26.
Do I even think about myself as a woman when I go to make art? Of course not.
Judy Chicago
27.
The old languages - at least the ones I know - don't have gender. They don't have gendered pronouns. There's no "he" and "she." A human being is a human being.
Gloria Steinem
28.
Suffer women once to arrive at an equality with you, and they will from that moment become your superiors.
Cato the Elder
29.
Gender is an identity tenuously constituted in time, instituted in an exterior space through a stylized repetition of acts.
Judith Butler
30.
Gender is used as a control mechanism that's just wrong. Gender is never anything to struggle with; gender is something to play with. Once you're free of the rules that all these hierarchical, oppressive systems place on gender, that's the tricky part.
Kate Bornstein
31.
Androgyny suggests a spirit of reconciliation between the sexes.
Carolyn Heilbrun
34.
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
35.
I felt alien my whole life but I didn't feel alien because of my gender. Other people made me aware of my gender.
Patti Smith
37.
Gender preference does not define you. Your spirit defines you.
P. C. Cast
38.
Gender is really varied and complicated and sort of infinitely individualistic.
Susan Faludi
39.
Taste is a phenomenon. Most of taste is unconscious - it comes from your upbringing, from your family, from your society, your gender, your race; it's a melange of all those things.
Grayson Perry
40.
Until we as a gender refuse to wear any shoe that would be uncomfortable to walk a mile in, we’re perfectly screwed.
Cheryl Strayed
41.
I can't change my gender, and I refuse to stop making movies.
Kathryn Bigelow
42.
Men were only made into 'men' with great difficulty even in primitive society: the male is not naturally 'a man' any more than the woman. He has to be propped up into that position with some ingenuity, and is always likely to collapse.
Wyndham Lewis
46.
We reject creationism because there is no evidence to support it. By contrast, the notion that biology is at least partially the basis of gender is an empirically supportable, and even well-supported, proposition. The gender scholars reject it on ideological, not evidentiary, grounds.
Christina Hoff Sommers
47.
Getting hit on by both genders is such a champagne problem.
Naya Rivera
48.
We are a model country where gender equality is concerned.
Tarja Halonen
49.
Women are all we know of paradise on this earth.
Albert Camus
50.
The woman who is known only through a man is known wrong.
Henry Adams