Gender Quotes · Page 19

While growing up I faced criticism not on the basis of gender but on my appearance. I was bullied and body-shamed.

— Harnaaz Sandhu

Any kind of gender expression is performance for me, regardless of where it is on the spectrum.

— Zoe Quinn

Hedi was and is still misspelled 'Heidi,' and my perception of genders ended up slightly out of focus from an early age.

— Hedi Slimane

If one is of the masculine gender, a poodle is the insignia of one's deviation.

— Mart Crowley

“I understand more that pain is evidence to our awakening to truth and also a measure of closeness to truth.”

— Adam Scott Huerta

Choosing a Board of Directors based on race and gender is a lousy way to run a company.

— T. J. Rodgers

war is a man's game ... the killing machine has a gender and it is male.

— Virginia Woolf

If there were genders to genres, fiction would be unquestionably feminine.

— William H. Gass

“The lie is suffocating. Every time I have to play along, I feel like I'm betraying myself. Sometimes when I see myself…

— April Daniels

She raised me to not think of men and women as different. She raised me without gender. It's kind of the reason…

— Billie Lourd

If we move away from either/or thinking, and if we think, okay, every day of my life that I walk out of…

— Bell Hooks

The role of gender in society is the most complicated thing I’ve ever spent a lot of time learning about, and I’ve…

— Randall Munroe

“A brave little woman,’ said the vicar. ‘So many of our women are now left alone.’ And so they were. Those who…

— Fay Weldon

I see the effects of sexual and gender liberation all around me, just like you do, but I don't have a sense…

— Susie Bright

“He feels excited. He feels ashamed. He wants to talk to her, but he is afraid. Maybe he imagined it all. Maybe…

— Naomi Alderman

I love performing and entertaining, but what I want to really share is a stronger voice to the people and empower women…

— Lana

We can't just assume that this resistance is going to produce the kinds of candidates or the kinds of parties that will…

— Michelle Alexander

Gender assignment is a "construction" and yet many genderqueer and trans people refuse those assignments in part or in full. That refusal…

— Judith Butler

Yet the transgender lobby aggressively attacks any critical voice as transphobic and tries to censor us from speaking. There is a big…

— Janice Raymond

I get kind of, um, bored by all the sexuality and gender labels because I feel like that's where the problem comes…

— Tig Notaro

“And perhaps the sexes are more closely related than we think, and the great renewal of the world will perhaps consist in…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“It doesn't really matter what a person decides to do, or how radically a person plays with gender. What matters, I think,…

— Kate Bornstein

“Does it distress you, reader, how I remind you of their sexes in each sentence? ‘Hers’ and ‘his’? Does it make you…

— Ada Palmer

My mother has been to Mecca to perform her hajj; my dad hasn't. I come from a very liberal family, so even…

— Mohsin Hamid

Typical news accounts and commentaries about school shootings and rampage killings rarely mention gender.

— Jackson Katz

Androgyny suggests a spirit of reconciliation between the sexes.

— Carolyn Heilbrun

I don't want to sound pompous, but I really think your gender doesn't necessarily dominate your sexual activity.

— John Lone

A basis for much of the pain women suffer in real life is they must somehow resolve their devotion to men.

— Billy Cannon

Bros before hoes? Screw that. More like 'Anyone who has my back before people who don't, no matter what gender they are.'

— Anonymous

I've certainly encountered prejudice. An awful lot of people do get upset if they 'clock' that I'm trans.

— Rebecca Root

I've never treated anyone badly or in a discriminatory way based on their gender, race, religion or sexuality - period.

— Mel Gibson

I feel if you hold yourself as an artist first and foremost, the barriers of gender come down.

— Ondi Timoner

One may fall in love anytime and with anyone. One does not decide that based on caste, religion or gender.

— Dutee Chand

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

— Charlotte Bronte

I think gender parity is a crucial part of any healthy society. It's applicable to the entire world.

— Margaret Qualley

My journey with my gender identity feels like one of piecing things back together.

— Emma D'Arcy

Being a true bad ass has no weight or gender requirement - just 100% commitment to greatness.

— Anonymous

I perform at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre, where my race and gender are rarely pointed out.

— Nicole Byer

I have always fought against being gender specific. I just don't like being identified as female: I'm a person.

— Toyah Willcox

That one can love another of the same gender, that is what the homophobe really cannot stand.

— Stephen Fry