If you're a woman musician, that is your qualifier. I've had people come up to me and say, "You're good for a… — Thao Nguyen Copy Share Image
I never write something and consciously embed political commentary or any other kind of commentary. I just try to get the characters… — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
“Sexual expression is so powerful a way of bonding with others and so devastating a way of hurting others that it can… — Rachel Adler Copy Share Image
“And since a novel has this correspondence to real life, its values are to some extent those of real life. But it… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I've never isolated role models based on gender. I have more male role models due to the mere fact that I've done… — Amy Jo Martin Copy Share Image
In my first 100 days, I'll work with both parties to make the biggest investment in good-paying jobs in decades. We'll also… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
“[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 Copy Share Image
In the most basic terms it was about how when we experience art without critical awareness we consent to the ideas being… — Simon Pegg Copy Share Image
“It is time to effect a revolution in female manners - time to restore to them their lost dignity - and make… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
I read the books and I really, really wanted to play the part. I started kundalini yoga, kickboxing and running, and completely… — Gwendoline Christie Copy Share Image
I'm just playing songs for my friends and for people, and they're just like, 'Wow, this is powerful.' I'm excited. It's also… — King Princess Copy Share Image
When I was transitioning, I assumed that cis woman had it down somehow, that they'd had this childhood and they understood what… — Torrey Peters Copy Share Image
Our genders are in negotiation with other people. I'm like, 'I want to be seen this way, and so I'm going to… — Torrey Peters Copy Share Image
“I was in my early twenties and I was, to be quite honest, a bit of a punk. A swaggering entitled straight… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
“I told you in the course of this paper that Shakespeare had a sister; but do not look for her in Sir… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Like probably a lot of people, I came away from watching films like 'Miss Representation' and 'Half the Sky' with the realization… — Adora Svitak Copy Share Image
In many parts of the world, women and girls are especially vulnerable to HIV/AIDS because they lack control over most aspects of… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
Almost everything about American society is affected by World War II: our feelings about race; our feelings about gender and the empowerment… — Rick Atkinson Copy Share Image
I might think that equality has been achieved, there is no power relation going on in terms of class, race, or gender,… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
In an essay 10 years ago, I pointed out that it is utterly logical for polygamy rights to follow gay rights. After… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
On May 6, 2013, I started hormone replacement therapy and began transitioning. I was very depressed, which is not uncommon for people… — Zoey Tur Copy Share Image
Writing for me is an ongoing practice of facing and countering fears. And so, in that sense, I have always been responding… — Jenny Johnson Copy Share Image
Whether one wants to be free to live out a "hard-wired" sense of sex or a more fluid sense of gender, is… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
As I said in the Times and will say again here, I do, however, believe that most members of our community —… — Cynthia Nixon Copy Share Image
“Beowulf is usually seen as a masculine text, but I think that's somewhat unfair. The poem, while (with one exception) not structured… — Maria Dahvana Headley Copy Share Image
“Labels police individuals and are intended to exert power and control over their behavior and lifestyle. Determining someone to be hetero, female,… — Chris Donaghue Copy Share Image
Though I am flattered that Governor Palin has chosen to cite me as a source of wisdom, what I said had nothing… — Madeleine Albright Copy Share Image
We have a lot more work to do in our common struggle against bigotry and discrimination. I say "common struggle" because I… — Coretta Scott King Copy Share Image
One of the best side effects about working on 'Billions' that I did not anticipate were the number of conversations I had… — Asia Kate Dillon Copy Share Image
“Those hundreds of “gender projects” funded by aid money might have been more effective if they had also included men. The fact… — Jenny Nordberg Copy Share Image
In the realness categories, what happens is you walk and your peers judge you, because if you're not able to walk amongst… — Dominique Jackson Copy Share Image
When I wrote 'The Assistants,' I knew very much that I wanted to write about income inequality and student loan debt and… — Camille Perri Copy Share Image
There's something about doing Shakespeare with a single gender, whether it is all-male or all-female, that opens up certain possibilities. You are… — Phyllida Lloyd Copy Share Image
“Now, it is frequently asserted that, with women, the job does not come first. What (people cry) are women doing with this… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
I'd say my relation to being a woman is, I mean being a woman is whatever you want because the concept of… — Amandla Stenberg Copy Share Image
Just across the ocean in, say Kenya or Tanzania, a two-gender system is vital for the survival of most of the folks… — Kate Bornstein Copy Share Image
Soccer, more often than not, helps to unite the world. What this Muslim ban is doing is dividing it: separating 'Us' and… — Becky Sauerbrunn Copy Share Image
Even if an alcoholic is powerless over alcohol once it enters his body, he still makes a choice to drink. And, even… — Rick Perry Copy Share Image
“I edit myself into a boldness that is neither native or foreign to me. At times I grow tired of this approach,… — Maggie Nelson Copy Share Image
I am still bowled over by this great young adult novel by David Levithan called 'Every Day,' which is about a character… — John Green Copy Share Image