Gender Quotes · Page 12

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

— Sandra Day O'Connor

Research conducted throughout the world shows gender balance in top positions contributes to improved competitiveness and better business performance.

— Beth Brooke

Here is the secret to surviving one of these [airplane] crashes: Be male. In a 1970 Civil Aeromedical institute study of three…

— Mary Roach

Capitalism knows only one color: that color is green; all else is necessarily subservient to it, hence, race, gender and ethnicity cannot…

— Thomas Sowell

But let me tell you, this gender thing is history. You're looking at a guy who sat down with Margaret Thatcher across…

— George H. W. Bush

“[Y]ou are not ashamed of your sin [in committing adultery] because so many men commit it. Man's wickedness is now such that…

— Augustine of Hippo

I want for every child - regardless of their background, gender, caste, etc. - to be able to access schools that are…

— Hima Das

Nevada is certainly more representative of what the entire country looks like demographically, so you really are testing how these candidates are…

— Lucy Flores

There is no "true Islam," just different interpretations. Since I brought up patriarchy, let me make one thing clear. I am not…

— Shirin Ebadi

For pragmatic reasons, for lessening of violence and for allowing people to live better lives, I think that the march forward for…

— Maggie Nelson

There were definitely songs in the past that were me dealing with living this gender dysphoria, and sometimes they were really direct…

— Laura Jane Grace

Bean-counting government bureaucrats are free to take race, ethnicity and gender into account when doling out public funds to non-white-male contractors. But…

— Michelle Malkin

It's all too common that when we talk about diversity and inclusion, and gender equity in the workplace, it translates to just…

— Meena Harris

I might think that equality has been achieved, there is no power relation going on in terms of class, race, or gender,…

— Lidia Yuknavitch

We live in a world where there are a hell of a lot of new inputs that need to be factored in…

— Stuart Rose

I think that aspiration to be greater than who you are is such a universal feeling, regardless of gender identity.

— Iman Vellani

Drag is literally so ancient that it predates modern understanding of gender, of transness, of queerness. Drag predates modern ideas of gender,…

— Sasha Velour

I can't believe there's a website which counts down until I'm legal. It is quite sick and perverted when you think about…

— Charlotte Church

The transgender movement even divides itself up by gender, as many folks stick with their same trans-genders (female-to-male or male-to-female). Additionally, the…

— Kate Bornstein

The freedom of women was achieved by two things: One, the Pill. Two... by labour-saving devices like the washing machine. By science,…

— Doris Lessing

I want to say that the way in which we understand gender actually changes the way we live gender.

— Judith Butler

The most important factor in determining whether you will succeed isn't your gender - it's you.

— Angela Braly

'Man up' is a sexist term that should be retired along with all the other gender-based imperious imperatives.

— Christine Pelosi

The 2010 global gender gap report by the World Economic Forum shows that countries with better gender equality have faster-growing, more competitive economies.

— Michelle Bachelet

Women are suffering because they are being excluded. The high military council excluded women from the committee to change the constitution [of…

— Nawal El Saadawi