If I were really asked to define myself, I wouldn’t start with race; I wouldn’t start with blackness; I wouldn’t start with… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
My own take on the word "transgender" is that it's an umbrella term for anyone who breaks any rules, laws, guidelines or… — Kate Bornstein Copy Share Image
“It is a rather amazing fact that, of the very many dimensions along which the genital activity of one person can be… — Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick Copy Share Image
Arguably, my student status and perhaps my gender were also my downfall with respect to the Nobel Prize, which was awarded to… — Jocelyn Bell Burnell Copy Share Image
I want to make sure that people understand that, behind this national conversation around transgender rights, there are real people who hurt… — Sarah McBride Copy Share Image
“I remember taking an anthropology class in college and the professor was explaining that there is little 'sexual dimorphism' in humans. He… — Brandon Stanton Copy Share Image
I've been exploring gender performativity in the Gulf since I was a teenager. I'm not a gender anthropologist, but I feel like… — Ayshay Copy Share Image
Why would one's identity be a matter of feelings? I think that that's a misuse of terms, philosophically. Identity is mind independent.… — William Lane Craig Copy Share Image
Some philosophers would give a sex to revenge, and appropriate it almost exclusively to the female mind. But, like most other vices,… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Some trans people thought that in claiming that gender is performative that I was saying that it is all a fiction, and… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
Our culture is in deep trouble, and at the heart of its trouble is its loss of a vision for manhood. If… — Stu Weber Copy Share Image
“It really is something ... that men disapprove even of our doing things that are patently good. Wouldn't it be possible for… — Moderata Fonte Copy Share Image
I could have hidden in Boston and lived at home for three years, gone through my transition, taken voice lessons to make… — Hari Nef Copy Share Image
If you have a conversation "Why is it you think masculinity is linked with heterosexuality? Or why is it you think masculinity… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
Now my mom designs to resign so she runs for US senate, and now at 67 my mom just launched a new… — Stephanie McMahon Copy Share Image
There's just so many facets, I think, of the ignorance in our society that have to be corrected if we're really going… — Dolores Huerta Copy Share Image
Radical feminist theorists do not seek to make gender a bit more flexible, but to eliminate it. They are gender abolitionists, and… — Sheila Jeffreys Copy Share Image
The legalization of drugs, a proliferation of a public health approach to drug use and drug addition, a compassionate mental health system.… — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share Image
Men are enforced into a kind of silence about their gender; they're supposed to not think of it as a performance. That's… — Stephen Marche Copy Share Image
It doesn't happen often, it's what you dream and hope for. We are happy, but we want to make sure these changes… — Amy Ziering Copy Share Image
People who would not be using the word gender or thinking about gayness or trans-ness may actually, without even thinking about it,… — Miranda July Copy Share Image
Goldilocks [There] lived a family of bearstogether anthropomorphically in a little cottage as a nuclear family. They were very sorry about this,… — James Finn Garner Copy Share Image
I never really felt aware of my gender, being a woman, and whether that was in my favor or not. Because there's… — Thea Sharrock Copy Share Image
It's not that I am demanding empathy for trans people. It's actually more than I'm demanding that readers have empathy for themselves,… — Torrey Peters Copy Share Image
“In reaction against the age-old slogan, "woman is the weaker vessel," or the still more offensive, "woman is a divine creature," we… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
How often in life are you going to find your mate and that mate happens to be your same exact age and… — Sandra Bullock Copy Share Image
The reason why access to facilities - and access to public spaces - is so important is because it's much more difficult… — Sarah McBride Copy Share Image
There are things that directors know about me that people shouldn't know. But everyone's really different. I've worked with women who I've… — Kristen Stewart Copy Share Image
Not all bodies are born in male or female. There is a continuum of bodies and it seems to me that trying… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
For 'Gender Studies,' I wrote that story in May and June of 2016. People have said to me, 'Oh, it's a political… — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
So many people go through life, and they never deal with their own issues, no matter what the issues are - ours… — Caitlyn Jenner Copy Share Image
The concept that really gets the goat of the gay-hater, the idea that really spins their melon and sickens their stomachs is… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
So the aim for the press was a mixture of things: to publish under-represented writing, which is an intersection of original language,… — Deborah Smith Copy Share Image
When an office-holder facing a multi-count indictment says that he has decided to spend more time with his family, the proper response… — Jeff Greenfield Copy Share Image
All human beings bear God's image and must be respected for what each person is. Therefore, no external description of one's being,… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
I am rather disturbed by the fact that so many people—who are neither medical professionals nor trans themselves—would want to hear all… — Julia Serano Copy Share Image
In the nineteenth century, the central moral challenge was slavery. In the twentieth century, it was the battle against totalitarianism. We believe… — Nicholas D. Kristof Copy Share Image
Feminism is a belief that although women and men are inherently of equal worth, most societies privilege men as a group. As… — Estelle Freedman Copy Share Image
I hadn't thought about the balance in mood. You see that we did it in alphabetical order, so if there's any kind… — Lorin Stein Copy Share Image
It's OK not to understand the whole trans thing. That's alright. My dad didn't understand it. I still don't know everything. What's… — Nicole Maines Copy Share Image
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