“Gender is a shell game. What is a man? Whatever a woman isn't. What is a woman? Whatever a man is not.… — Naomi Alderman Copy Share Image
A lot of people ask, 'Why do we need labels?' But everybody calls themselves something. Some people describe themselves as gender-fluid or… — Rebecca Root Copy Share Image
This whole thing with Anita Hill and Clarence Thomas happened during my first year of college. It was a cross-section of race… — Rick Famuyiwa Copy Share Image
“Of all the nasty outcomes predicted for women's liberation...none was more alarming than the suggestion that women would eventually become just like… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
“Women who display themselves as sex objects do not represent women as a gender anymore than the chippendales or Ron Jeremy represent… — Anonymouse Copy Share Image
For me, diversity whether you think of it as race or gender, it's not a trend, it's a human movement, it's a… — Iman Abdulmajid Copy Share Image
You know, my mum's always encouraged me and never made my gender an issue, I guess. She brought me up to believe… — Paloma Faith Copy Share Image
I grew up in a home where I was literally told from a young age, 'No daughter of mine will ever wash… — Noreena Hertz Copy Share Image
I'd love for there to be a situation - a world in which that's just not even a question anymore. We are… — Lynn Shelton Copy Share Image
Propelled by freedom of faith, gender equality and economic justice for all, India will become a modern nation. Minor blemishes cannot cloak… — Pranab Mukherjee Copy Share Image
As Baudelaire said it so beautifully, Emma Bovary is an androgynous character. She cannot be reduced to a gender or a sociological… — Sophie Barthes Copy Share Image
conventional English usage, including the generic use of masculine-gender words, often obscures the actions, the contributions, and sometimes the very presence of… — Casey Miller Copy Share Image
If there's specific resistance to women making movies, I just choose to ignore that as an obstacle for two reasons: I can't… — Kathryn Bigelow Copy Share Image
“If woman had no existence save in the fiction written by men, one would imagine her a person of the utmost importance… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
From what I understand from talking with older friends and feminists, I think that once I enter the workforce and start to… — Julie Zeilinger Copy Share Image
A huge amount of what feminists are fighting for would have major positive impact for men as well as women. Take the… — Laura Bates Copy Share Image
It may look like things have gotten better, because everyone is semi-being appreciative. Not appreciative, but conscious of people being gender fluid… — Cakes da killa Copy Share Image
“Sex is a matter of biology, while gender is a matter of grammar, and there is no earthly reason why sex should… — R.L. Trask Copy Share Image
It's so wonderful that women continue to break down barriers and change societal expectations, but women still suffer discrimination for their gender,… — Sasheer Zamata Copy Share Image
Some people look gender non-conforming because they want to look that way - they don't want to conform to society's expectations. — Caitlyn Jenner Copy Share Image
One thing standing in the way of further progress for many men is the same obstacle that held women back for so… — Stephanie Coontz Copy Share Image
In the face of sluggish growth, aging societies, and increasing educational attainment of young women, the economic case for gender equality is… — Jose Angel Gurria Copy Share Image
The first things that babies can notice is sex; the first thing that you can tell about a person when you see… — Stephen Marche Copy Share Image
There is no gender to my music. There's no male or female voice, no trite lyrics or poetry. It's much more abstract,… — Yanni Copy Share Image
Thanks to advancements in gender equality, you now have salty women like me who not only follow politics but also share their… — Ana Kasparian Copy Share Image
When I get a case about discrimination, I have to think about people in my own family who suffered discrimination because of… — Samuel Alito Copy Share Image
America cannot be America in the new century until it deals with these new questions of gender, including the trans issues, and… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
I really don't care about what anyone says unless they are also gender-nonconforming. Then I really listen. I love the solidarity felt… — Ezra Furman Copy Share Image
“First time I got the full sight of Shug Avery long black body with it black plum nipples, look like her mouth,… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
Look, does gender play a part in how people perceive Hillary Clinton? Yes. But it's also not the reason people criticize her… — Ana Navarro Copy Share Image
“Anyone who brings up gender in the workplace is wading into deep and muddy waters. The subject itself presents a paradox, forcing… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
Depression as one example is an illness that has a chemical basis, but also is deeply embedded in cultural norms about gender,… — Jonathan Michel Metzl Copy Share Image
The coup de grace which ends the patient's life altogether is quite equivalent to the drastic modification in the institution of marriage… — Dallin H. Oaks Copy Share Image
I went to Macalester in Minnesota to study social psychology, the study of why people do what they do. I was really… — Danai Gurira Copy Share Image
Because when an artist has to assert that her intended audience is all humans rather than those who happen to be of… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
Few professors would dare to publish research or teach a course debunking the claims made in various ethnic, gender, or other 'studies'… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
I didn't realize that I wasn't moving in a gender-equal world - I had a sense of it, but I didn't start… — Emma Watson Copy Share Image
It's very important to me that people accept me as a transgendered female. But it's ridiculous to a lot of people and… — Alexis Arquette Copy Share Image
There's going to be biological differences between the genders. There's going to be biological differences between two women or two men. There's… — Jessica Valenti Copy Share Image
The strongest common bond between the genders is the universally acknowledged truth that both men and women are unhappy with their hair. — Linda Sunshine Copy Share Image
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