Gender bias is real. I was an early Barack Obama supporter, and I was even shocked at the way the media treated… — Cory Booker Copy Share Image
In this life you have to be your own hero. By that I mean you have to win whatever it is that… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“[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 Copy Share Image
My 'awakened dreams' are about shifts. Thought shifts, reality shifts, gender shifts: one person metamorphoses into another in a world where people… — Gloria E. Anzaldúa Copy Share Image
If you are good enough to compete for a top-level corporate job, you should be smart enough to know what the job… — Mark Cuban Copy Share Image
“I was arguing not that everyone should read books by ladies—though shifting the balance matters—but that maybe the whole point of reading… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“In the words of Lierre Keith, a speaker at Radfems Respond, femininity is “ritualized submission.” In this view, gender is less an… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
One side of me is very busy paying attention to the details of life, the humanity of people, catching the street voices,… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
While we teach our daughters about self defense, we should teach the sons about being respectful as well. A society cannot function… — Jennifer Winget Copy Share Image
“God bids you not to commit lechery, that is, not to have sex with any woman except your wife. You ask of… — Augustine of Hippo Copy Share Image
When it comes to gender, marriage, family, work, and religion - we once thought of them as being fixed, but they're incredibly… — Bruce Feiler Copy Share Image
When people were very concerned about the violence against women, I encouraged people to stick with it because it was going somewhere… — Evan Rachel Wood Copy Share Image
The good news for somebody who is struggling with same-gender attraction is this: It is that 'I'm not stuck with it forever.'… — Lance B. Wickman Copy Share Image
Un homme qui lit, ou qui pense, ou qui calcule, appartient a' l'espe' ce et non au sexe; dans ses meilleurs moments,… — Stephanie Crayencour Copy Share Image
I don't really think of my narrator in terms of gender. I think of them much more in basic emotional terms. As… — Steve Almond Copy Share Image
The women's national team is a very successful team, and that success has given us a platform to speak on gender equity… — Becky Sauerbrunn Copy Share Image
I think writer is a word without gender, and a good writer observes, absorbs, hopefully empathizes then translates that into character and… — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
One of the more popular activities was “Talk-O-Matic”. Five people at a time could write messages, and read each other's messages, on… — Guy Consolmagno Copy Share Image
As trans advocacy has institutionalized and developed, the context of the undemocratic nature of US non-profits and the ways that white, wealthy… — Dean Spade Copy Share Image
We are neurologically hardwired to seek out people like ourselves. We start forming cliques as soon as we're old enough to know… — iO Tillett Wright Copy Share Image
UN peacekeeping operations are now increasingly complex and multi-dimensional, going beyond monitoring a ceasefire to actually bringing failed States back to life,… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
If you find yourself in a relationship or even a friendship with someone who's conflicted with their gender identity, just be kind.… — Linda D. Thompson Copy Share Image
I would say that it's very difficult to personally construct your gender. I think a lot of it is socially constructed. If… — Abigail Tarttelin Copy Share Image
“If a woman tells a man the god favor him, everybody says she's far-minded.' The broom halted mid-sweep and the slave turned… — Rebecca Barnhouse Copy Share Image
Career success depends on people's educational credentials, their length of service (job tenure), unfortunately it is still the case on their race,… — Jeffrey Pfeffer Copy Share Image
I don't think that the forms of feminism that are prevailing on campus are left wing. It's a conservative form of feminism… — Laura Kipnis Copy Share Image
I once asked Myung Mi Kim where gender is located in her work, and she said simply, "it's everywhere," resisting the notion… — Dawn Lundy Martin Copy Share Image
The examples of female success stories are important on the global scale, as they help to disseminate the idea of gender equality… — Dalia Grybauskaite Copy Share Image
“I guess I just thought that I was finally a real girl." "Hey! None of that!" She takes me by the shoulders.… — April Daniels Copy Share Image
Until now we’ve discriminated against each other according to race, religion, age, gender and just about every other differentiation imaginable. Look around… — David Moody Copy Share Image
I never intended to become a data head. I could never have predicted it would play such an important role in my… — Geena Davis Copy Share Image
Utopianism also attempts to shape and dominate the individual by doing two things at once: it strips the individual of his uniqueness,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“We met at all hours, whenever a new emergency demanded attention. It was not unusual to find some of us talking things… — Martin Luther King Jr Copy Share Image
One of the fashion things I ever did was for Helmut Lang for Visionaire magazine and I used people from all genders.… — Nan Goldin Copy Share Image
I have no idea, actually, where I fit in, in terms of poetry camps. At AWP conferences, I have been on panels… — Denise Duhamel Copy Share Image
“The silence lingers and we soak it up like a good steam. Men like silence. We believe in it. We crave it.… — Alan Eisenstock Copy Share Image
The thing we need to work on as a country is our educational system. To me, that is something that our generation… — Kate Hudson Copy Share Image