Gender Quotes · Page 26

I think it's time we all agree that gender stereotypes are simply the confabulation of our own mind.

— Naveen Jain

A gender-equal society would be one where the word 'gender' does not exist: where everyone can be themselves.

— Gloria Steinem

A core plank of left-wing academic thought is that gender and race are 'socially constructed.'

— Heather Mac Donald

my spirit is too ancient to understand the separation of soul & gender

— Ntozake Shange

There is no denying that we have made great progress toward gender equality.

— Stephanie Coontz

It's tough advocating for trans visibility and not being pigeonholed as just a trans actress.

— Trace Lysette

I'm pretty sure Magic Mike' is the best funded gender studies thesis ever so I'm going to have to see that.

— Leigh Bardugo

“What was it that marked me as a woman and was I prepared to let it go?”

— Sara Sheridan

No matter what you're doing, whether it's a makeup tutorial or an interview or a lip sync, performance is the essence of…

— Sasha Velour

I think that it's important to say that trans people exist, and we are valid, whether we choose to transition or not.…

— Asia Kate Dillon

“In spoken Chinese, everything is gender neutral. There is no she or he. The more I think about this now, the more…

— Weike Wang

Since Gamergate, many women I know are reluctant to speak publicly on gender issues, because they fear - rightly - that they…

— Brianna Wu

What I'm trying to do in all senses is deconstruct our idea of gender and use the privileges that come with looking…

— Hunter Schafer

Society as a whole benefits immeasurably from a climate in which all persons, regardless of race or gender, may have the opportunity…

— Sandra Day O'Connor

I'm lucky enough to live in London, which is a boiling pot of every kind of language and background and demographic and…

— Alex Lawther

Jolie's exotic mixture of brains and glamour makes her the one reliable international star, and one of the few of either gender…

— Richard Corliss

It is a tragedy, I feel, that people of a different sexual type are caught in a world which shows so little…

— Emma Goldman

“I was not really surprised by what he was saying. A lot of people felt that way. Especially men. There was a…

— Alice Munro

Marriage is a unified institution. Marriage means a committed, legally sanctioned relationship between a man and a woman. That's what it means.…

— Lance B. Wickman

“Different though the sexes are, they inter-mix. In every human being a vacillation from one sex to the other takes place, and…

— Virginia Woolf

And there are also languages that divide nouns into much more specific genders. The African language Supyire from Mali has five genders:…

— Guy Deutscher

“The ultimate reality from which the path of this becoming could start off again will no longer rest on a ground of…

— Luce Irigaray

“Could Stephen have met men on equal terms, she would always have chosen them as her companions; she preferred them because of…

— Radclyffe Hall

“I know what I am. I know that I've chosen to identify as a transgender woman, and that I am - by…

— Kate Bornstein S. Bear Bergman

Gender dysphoria is never an easy thing to live with, mainly because people don't understand it.

— Andreja Pejic

If you don't know somebody, whether you're inquiring into their sex or their gender, it's invasive.

— Hari Nef

My father always defined my gender to my brothers. He'd say, 'This is your sister; you must take care of her.'

— Sandra Cisneros

Not being treated OK is something everyone can relate to, no matter what age or gender.

— Sigrid

Why are we only talking about gender discrimination. We need to focus on the other kinds of discriminations in practice.

— Radhika Apte

Gender equality is one of the principles we will never compromise at Accenture.

— Pierre Nanterme

“I have grown up to be many things, but dainty sure as hell isn't one of them.”

— Lynn Peril

It is not easy to be a filmmaker but it has nothing to do with my gender.

— Divya Khosla Kumar

In this society these days, women are widely accepted in all kinds of cross-gender areas. So yeah, it's time!

— Danica Patrick

We'll always be re-examining how we relate to each other in terms of race and gender, in terms of power and access.

— Rick Famuyiwa

“We have evolved. But our ideas of gender have not evolved very much.”

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

We still have gaps that are rooted in gender inequality. Certainly we have discrimination against the LGBT community.

— Hillary Clinton

It's in everyone's best interest to help close the gender gap in the sciences.

— Sarah Brightman

It became normal for women on the internet to adopt gender-neutral or male screen names.

— Arthur Chu

Me feeling ambiguous about my gender identity has been a lifelong feeling, certainly.

— Asia Kate Dillon

We're actually all constantly, even in minor ways, making choices to confirm or affirm the gender that we want to have.

— Torrey Peters