Gender Quotes · Page 10

Trans men and women have always been thrown to the sides, but... have always been the nurturers, especially trans women.

— Dominique Jackson

We've been socialised and told that there is a way to describe people, and that way is by their gender or their…

— Asia Kate Dillon

You don't go out and change your gender for a television show, O.K.? It ain't happening. I don't care who you are.

— Caitlyn Jenner

When I do makeup, it's performative. I don't really wear makeup, but I use it as a tool to talk about gender…

— King Princess

Sexism is where there is discrimination clearly based on gender.

— Margaret Hoover

I guess professionally I've left my gender open to artistic interpretation.

— Andrej Pejic

True gender equality in Scotland - and elsewhere - is still some way off.

— Nicola Sturgeon

“Am I the only one that worries about the nation filling up with gender challenged people?”

— Steven Magee

Race I've been studying since I knew there was a problem with race and that I was Black and something was wrong.…

— Nate Parker

Women have talent and intelligence but, due to social constraints and prejudices, it is still a long distance away from the goal…

— Pratibha Patil

What transsexuality emphatically is not is a 'lifestyle,' any more than being male or female is a lifestyle. Gender is many things,…

— Jennifer Finney Boylan

How many modern transsexuals are unacknowledged shamans? Perhaps it is to poets they should go for counsel, rather than surgeons.

— Camille Paglia

“Bye bye binary. For gender, for sexuality, for everything. ... Lots of people can like lots of people. And could everyone please…

— Cath Crowley

I learned that gender identity runs very deep in all of us, very near the center of our sense of self and…

— Norah Vincent

For me, coming from the women's movement, politics is not just about parties and parliament. There is politics in our private space…

— Elif Safak

I mean, we all carry some form of that bias, right? I mean, it might be based on age, it might be…

— Maya Wiley

Zoologists have reckoned there are up to at least 750 species of animal that have been observed exhibiting same-sex behaviour, or gender…

— Stephen Fry

I think it is inevitable that leftist forces in the US would be divided, if not balkanized, to some extent. Among the…

— Robert Pollin

One of the factors a country's economy depends on is human capital. If you don't provide women with adequate access to healthcare,…

— Michelle Bachelet

While gender stereotypes can have negative impacts on men as well, the vast majority of structural gender inequality: socially, politically, professionally and…

— Laura Bates

Violence against women continues to persist as one of the most heinous, systematic and prevalent human rights abuses in the world. It…

— Ban Ki-moon

A lot of people still have the idea that drag goes from one end of the gender spectrum to the other end…

— Sasha Velour

“The human in what it is objectively ever since its beginning is two, two who are different. Each part of what constitutes…

— Luce Irigaray

Both bisexuality and transgender are fluid notions of identity, while lesbian and gay are fixed identities. Some people believe that means there…

— Kate Bornstein

Gender relations are a sad story of men talking trash about women all over the world.

— John Darnielle

I find it ridiculous to assign a gender to an inanimate object incapable of disrobing and making an occasional fool of itself.

— David Sedaris

I do say gender fluid, because I experience my gender identity as being fluid because it's on a spectrum.

— Asia Kate Dillon

Trans folk are so often pushed to the margins and not afforded the resources and opportunities that some nontrans people are.

— Trace Lysette

All the English speakers, or almost all, have difficulties with the gender of words.

— Bernard Pivot

IN MY NERVOUSNESS FOR THIS SPEECH AND MY MOMENTS OF DOUBT, I'VE TOLD MYSELF FIRMLY, 'IF NOT ME, WHO? IF NOT NOW,…

— Emma Watson

Religion and love don't have a price, don't have a gender, a skin color, nothing. We are all on the same plate.

— Riccardo Tisci

“In contemporary parlance, sex is biological and gender is socially constructed.”

— Rebecca Solnit

You can really learn from Donahue. I didn't know you could be a woman in a man's body. You go out and…

— Roseanne Barr

As a female, you're always terrified that if you blow it, you've blown it for your whole gender.

— Kari Skogland

To all musicians - forget gender - to all musicians, it's about - do what makes you happy. Just go for it,…

— Charlotte Caffey

I'm pretty sure Magic Mike' is the best funded gender studies thesis ever so I'm going to have to see that.

— Leigh Bardugo

It's tough advocating for trans visibility and not being pigeonholed as just a trans actress.

— Trace Lysette

“What was it that marked me as a woman and was I prepared to let it go?”

— Sara Sheridan

There is no denying that we have made great progress toward gender equality.

— Stephanie Coontz

my spirit is too ancient to understand the separation of soul & gender

— Ntozake Shange