Gender Quotes · Page 19

Trans justice calls on us to combat the blend of prejudices that demean the lives and diminish the autonomy of another person.

— Sarah McBride

“Race, gender, religion, sexuality, we are all people and that's it. We're all people. We're all equal.”

— Connor Franta

I felt alien my whole life, but I didn't feel alien because of my gender. Other people made me aware of my…

— Patti Smith

There's no gender norm with clothing, you know, sneakers aren't for little boys anymore, everyone can wear sneakers.

— Liv Morgan

If we're going to address trafficking in our country we have to address poverty, racism & gender based violence.

— Rachel Lloyd

In politics, during my organisational roles, I have never seen gender bias within my organisation.

— Smriti Irani

We don't agree with Caitlyn Jenner deciding she is the spokesperson for trans people.

— Genesis P-Orridge

I'm really obsessed with women who blur gender, and even men, like Pete Burns.

— Adore Delano

I think it's just different to get married for a woman than it is for a man. The amount of work to…

— Alison Pill

There are certain expectations placed on writers if other people have put a value on their gender. I'm aware of the hundreds…

— Laeta Kalogridis

Full social and political engagement is impossible without economic empowerment, a point that is as true for women as it is for…

— Arancha Gonzalez

It would be easier for people to grasp that gender, sex, and sexual orientation are different things if we had as much…

— Yance Ford

My experiences with gender bias are probably the norm. What I found was that expectations of women were simply lower, and this…

— Heather Bresch

Injustice is either very blatant - you walk down the street and someone calls you a name; you don't get a job…

— Jurnee Smollett-Bell

Our individual wholeness includes a masculine and a feminine side, which are slowly (or not so slowly) wrung out of us, depending…

— Peter Buffett

“So when we say to ourselves, or to others, 'You should obey God,' what we mean is 'We want what God deserves…

— Andrew T. Walker

S and M is only the expression in the bedroom of an oppressive-submissive relation which can happen also in the kitchen or…

— Marilyn French

“While railing against the manufactured prerequisites of womanhood or manhood, we need to avoid manufacturing our own prerequisites. The non-operative journey and…

— Kate Bornstein

“In the words of Lierre Keith, a speaker at Radfems Respond, femininity is “ritualized submission.” In this view, gender is less an…

— Anonymous

There's this belief sometimes from people who haven't lived the trans experience that's just like, 'You should tell everyone. You owe it…

— Brian Michael Smith

Gender bias is real. I was an early Barack Obama supporter, and I was even shocked at the way the media treated…

— Cory Booker

In this life you have to be your own hero. By that I mean you have to win whatever it is that…

— Jeanette Winterson

“[J]ust the sight of this book, even though it was of no authority, made me wonder how it happened that so many…

— Christine de Pizan

The all American work ethic, destructive enough by itself, also packs a gender double standard that strip-mines the natural resources of both…

— Letty Cottin Pogrebin

I focus on details, either of the body, or of objects that represent gender, sexuality, and other themes.

— Lorna Simpson

“Men only treat women like princesses when they want to use them like prostitutes.”

— Bauvard

To me, a great love story is a great love story, and it doesn't matter what gender is involved,

— Piper Perabo

“You are not male or female, but a plan deep-set within the heart of man.”

— Marianne Moore

“I had yet to learn that when it came to gender, I was both and neither.”

— David Levithan

“Gender relations are dependent on men being men and women being women.”

— Suzanne Venker

The gender parity is something that has been organic to Eventbrite since we started building a team.

— Julia Hartz

The problem with the way we discuss gender is that it tends to be "Let's sympathize with women" or "Let's sympathize with…

— Stephen Marche

Why must she dress that way? I think she's confused about her gender.

— Tim Gunn

“Gender roles suck," says Swift Fox. Then you should stop playing them, thinks Toby.”

— Margaret Atwood

We have all of us the two natures - the brother and the sister! Not one of us is quite woman -…

— Katherine Cecil Thurston

We should not be assuming anything for anyone else's gender, because gender is defined by the individual.

— Jinkx Monsoon

In some instances, a gender imbalance is indeed a manifestation of sexism. In others, it is not.

— Gad Saad

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

— Christine Pelosi

The days of a tennis champion as a gender rights leader are over.

— Rich Eisen

As you get older it's more confusing. Suddenly, there's more pressure to fit in to your assigned gender.

— Chaz Bono