Gender Quotes

Women should be treated as human beings, not as domestic animals.

Gender is not something that one is, it is something one does, an act… a doing rather than a being.

We are born as who we are, the gender thing is something that is imposed on you.

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.

I was a liberated woman long before there was a name for it.

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.

Gender is between your ears and not between your legs.

People fall in love with a person, not a gender or an age.

So few grown women like their lives.

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.

Thus, gender ideology no only creates ides about femininity but it also shapes conceptions of masculinity.

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.

I am not an angel," I asserted; "and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself.

The power I exert on the court depends on the power of the power of my arguments, not my gender

It is a curious thing to be a woman in the Caribbean after you have been a woman in these United States.

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

I find the question of whether gender differences are biologically determined or socially constructed to be deeply disturbing.

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.

Gender inequality is not one problem, it's a collection of problems.

The problem with gender is that it prescribes how we should be, rather than recognising how we are.

I am very gender-fluid and feel more like I wake up every day sort of gender neutral.

I don't see gender as the most significant fact of human existence.

As far as I'm concerned, being any gender is a drag.

I love to be individual, to step beyond gender.

Any serious shift towards more sustainable societies has to include gender equality.

Do I even think about myself as a woman when I go to make art? Of course not.

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.

Suffer women once to arrive at an equality with you, and they will from that moment become your superiors.

Gender is an identity tenuously constituted in time, instituted in an exterior space through a stylized repetition of acts.

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.

Androgyny suggests a spirit of reconciliation between the sexes.

Every woman has a story.

Women hear rhythm differently than men.

I have never let gender get in my way.

Gender preference does not define you. Your spirit defines you.

I felt alien my whole life but I didn't feel alien because of my gender. Other people made me aware of my 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.

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

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.

I can't change my gender, and I refuse to stop making movies.

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.

The soul has no gender.

Gender equality must become a lived reality.

Until we as a gender refuse to wear any shoe that would be uncomfortable to walk a mile in, we’re perfectly screwed.

Well, nobody's perfect.

Getting hit on by both genders is such a champagne problem.

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.

We are a model country where gender equality is concerned.

Women are all we know of paradise on this earth.

The woman who is known only through a man is known wrong.