Gender Quotes · Page 24

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

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

As to sex, the original pleasure, I cannot recommend too highly the advantages of androgyny.

— Jan Morris

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

— Dominique Jackson

You can hardly open a newspaper without seeing that a woman has been killed by a man for clearly gender-related reasons.

— Gloria Steinem

I have a lot of really wonderful friends who are of very different sexes and genders.

— Ezra Miller

Women are expected to identify gender as a starting point. Ethnicities are expected to identify that as a location. Is it ever…

— Kehinde Wiley

When the Nobel award came my way, it also gave me an opportunity to do something immediate and practical about my old…

— Amartya Sen

The fundamental steps of expansion that will open a person, over time, to the full flowering of his or her individuality are…

— Gail Sheehy

The clarity of gender makes possible the human dialectic. Let the lines of balanced tension go slack and the structure dissolves into…

— Bill Vaughan

I don't even think Trump knows what transgender means. He probably thinks transgender people are those cars that turn into robots.

— Patti Harrison

When I was a kid, I wanted to be a boy. I really had gender issues. I really thought I was supposed…

— Jane Lynch

My 'Vogue' is about being inclusive; it's about diversity. Showing different women, different body shapes, different races, class. To be tackling gender.

— Edward Enninful

How the hell can you change gender in the rural areas? I am a woman. We don't have good doctors; we are…

— Caster Semenya

“But I did it. I imagined myself, muscular, lean and deliciously male, in a suit, holding my completed dissertation. I was accepted…

— Calvin Payne-Taylor

I'm sure that a lot of women and men feel differently about it, but for me this isn't about being the girl…

— Lauren Mayberry

“As for why... I didn't want to admit that I was female. It wasn't that I wanted to be a boy, more…

— Kabi Nagata

It is important and vital is to keep that education for critical consciousness around intersectionalities, so that people are able to not…

— Bell Hooks

Of course, intersectionality theory is a confused muddle. It fights racism and sexism by classifying everyone according to race and sex. It…

— Christina Hoff Sommers

The purpose of affirmative action is to give our nation a way to finally address the systemic exclusion of individuals of talent…

— William J. Clinton

“There is abundant scholarship which establishes that the delegitimation of homosexual desire and the production of the naturally heterosexual, properly bi-gendered (unambiguously…

— Nivedita Menon

I honor anybody who wants to be a man and do the work of becoming a man. I honor anyone who mindfully…

— Kate Bornstein

Gender data is important. If girls don’t have a birth certificate, how do we know how many are marrying as children?

— Kathy Calvin

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

— Susan Faludi

My own personal, moral, spiritual, religious, etc. beliefs don't oppose same-gender marriage.

— Ed Case

“There are many worlds in the 'Realm of Worlds' where the ascendant beings are not male or female.”

— Anne Rice

Caitlyn Jenner, for all of her flaws, did start a conversation around the world about gender.

— Courtney Act

Gender is the poetry each of us makes out of the language we are taught.

— Leslie Feinberg

What a country needs to do is be fair to all its citizens - whether people are of a different ethnicity or…

— Chinua Achebe

Heterosexuality - whichever gender you are - says that the other gender is very important to you.

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim

When I put the shot, it's feminine, because I'm female. Athletic motion doesn't have a gender.

— Maren Seidler

Parenting is about being competent and responsible. It's not about gender, necessarily.

— Dan Savage

“It's illegal to deny people their records due to race or gender. Adoptees deserve the same rights and protections.”

— DaShanne Stokes

A learned woman is thought to be a comet, that bodes mischief whenever it appears.

— Bathsua Makin

I was a me-ist. I believed in the right to do whatever I wanted to do regardless of gender. Still do.

— Suzi Quatro

If you fall in love with someone gay and you're the opposite gender, it's not going to work.

— Rosie O'Donnell

I just want people to know that. I'm not trying to make space for other trans women.

— Patti Harrison

“No, I'm the human here. I'm the life at stake. I'm the one with fingernails, who feels pain. Me.”

— Alicen Grey