As a dedicated, successful writer, Lydia Sigourney violated essential elements of the very gender roles she celebrated. In the process, she offered… — Lydia Sigourney Copy Share Image
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Intersectionality has made an important contribution to social and political analysis, asking all of us to think about what assumptions of race… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
Whatever you proclaim as your identity here in the material realm is also your drag. You are not your religion. You are… — RuPaul Copy Share Image
Trans rights formation that mimics the models and strategies of the lesbian and gay rights framework is growing, and there are many… — Dean Spade Copy Share Image
Think of how hard it would be to create a gender-based movement across racial lines as long as one group believes that… — Melissa Harris-Perry Copy Share Image
“I think men mostly have to learn to be anarchists. Women don’t have to learn.” Vokep shook his head grimly. “It’s the… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
I'm feminist in that I believe that there should be equality between men and women. I get deeply frustrated on a daily… — Lauren Groff Copy Share Image
I think Donald Trump successfully tapped into the frustration and anger across the white males and across the working people in general.… — Richard Trumka Copy Share Image
With Barack Obama, we will turn the page on the old politics of misrepresentation and distortion. With Barack Obama we will close… — Edward Kennedy Copy Share Image
Toughening up, performing masculinity, pretending to enjoy things I didn't enjoy all enabled me to dodge the gender policing of the adults… — Janet Mock Copy Share Image
Texas's official hostility toward gender nonconforming children has had the predictable effect of pushing families out of the state in search of… — Jamelle Bouie Copy Share Image
I am a trans woman. My sisters are trans women. We are not secrets. We are not shameful. We are worthy of… — Janet Mock Copy Share Image
I don't agree with a core statement by most feminists, the statement by Simone de Beauvoir: "One is not born a woman,… — Kristina Schroder Copy Share Image
There are numbers of different types of partnerships or pairings that may exist in society that aren't same-gender sexual relationships that provide… — Lance B. Wickman Copy Share Image
“One night he said abruptly: Stephen won't marry—I don't want her to marry; it would only mean disaster.' And at this Anna… — Radclyffe Hall Copy Share Image
In the name of feminism, we denied some essential aspects of our authentic selves. While feminism should have been nothing if not… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
The fact that I'm a woman is as important to my work as a poet as the fact that Ahmad Shāmlu was… — Simin Behbahani Copy Share Image
I have an immigrant story. Most people come here for economic reasons, or religious reasons, or racial reasons, or gender reasons, or… — Jacques Pepin Copy Share Image
“She sang, as requested. There was much about love in the ballad: faithful love that refused to abandon its object; love that… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
I think my philosophy on music is sort of like the difference between religion and spirituality or religion and faith. There's a… — Haley Bonar Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, it seems to me that when it comes to issues affecting the trans community, most people who are cisgender - a… — Chelsea Manning Copy Share Image
The traditional gender ideals of the strong-silent man who plays his cards close to his chest and the mysterious woman who disguises… — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
Everybody deserves fair treatment, equal treatment in the eyes of the law and the state. And that includes gays, lesbians, transgender persons.… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Doctors and scientists, being part of that two-sex culture, have done everything they can to try to force people who are in-between… — Alice Dreger Copy Share Image
I think it's important to see the parallels, and to understand that our masculine and feminine roles are relatively new in human… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
I have always firmly believed that every director should be judged solely by their work, and not by their work based on… — Kathryn Bigelow Copy Share Image
The fact that you couldn't see Alfred Hitchcock's first film The Mountain Eagle, or that you couldn't see so many of F.W.… — Guy Maddin Copy Share Image
“[T]he full and complete development of a country, the welfare of the world and the cause of peace require the maximum participation… — United Nations Copy Share Image
I can say with confidence that my trans/transfeminine identity emerges as the most heavily problematized aspect of my lived experience. My transness… — Hari Nef Copy Share Image
“Now say, have women worth, or have they none? Or had they some, but with our Queen is’t gone? Nay Masculines, you… — Anne Bradstreet Copy Share Image
Space travel is a dream for many men and women. I think my trip will be perceived differently by different genders because… — Anousheh Ansari Copy Share Image
There is no cure for the social battles that we fight in our culture - and there's so much grief around race,… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
Something happens in the middle when women are in their 30s, and we can start with an array of things that happen,… — Sallie Krawcheck Copy Share Image
So much were employers of wage-labor unenthusiastic about proletarianization that, in addition to fostering the gender age division of labor, they also… — Immanuel Wallerstein Copy Share Image
When people say to me, 'Why are you so good at writing at women?' I say, 'Why isn't everybody?' Obviously there are… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
The only dating advice I have to offer is: Expect the guys in your life to be kind and respectful. Don't make… — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
“That said, many people who are transgender choose not to undergo surgery, even if they can afford it. There could be a… — Chris Edwards Copy Share Image
We need to have points of view from lots of different types of people. People who have different backgrounds, different parts of… — Brie Larson Copy Share Image
“It is extraordinarily entertaining to watch the historians of the past ... entangling themselves in what they were pleased to call the… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
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