Gender Quotes · Page 18

Gender no longer forms an essential part of marriage; marriage under law is a union of equals.

— Vaughn Walker

I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will.

— Charlotte Bronte

Maybe in that earlier phase I was painting the woman in me. Art isn't a wholly masculine occupation, you know.

— Willem de Kooning

We are still vulnerable to gender-targeted marketing no matter how carefully we edit our children's bookshelves.

— Russell Smith

I would like there to be gender equity. I would like the Broadway season to reflect sort of the demographic of the…

— Lynn Nottage

Motherhood is a greater predictor of wage inequality than gender is. It's enormous.

— Anne-Marie Slaughter

Drag queen is a gender like no other, and with practice I'd learned to rise to it.

— Kate Bornstein

For me, the genders are an essential element of numbers and letters, not something that could be removed from them.

— Leni Zumas

And think of how we challenged the idea of a male dominated Parliament with All-Women shortlists and made the cause of gender…

— Ed Miliband

The first thing that's really important to understand, just when approaching the topic of transgender people, is that the sex you're assigned…

— Nicole Maines

When people talk about gender-benders and bracket me with George, I always think I'm not like that. I had more of a…

— Marc Almond

We have a man [Donald Trump] who judges people based on their performance regardless of your gender, race, your ethnic or religious…

— Chris Christie

I had a really honest conversation with my husband about equal pay because we met on a movie where he was paid…

— Kaya Scodelario

A man who reads effeminate may well be consistently heterosexual, and another one might be gay. We can't read sexuality off of…

— Judith Butler

Human beings make mistakes, so we all make mistakes and wrong decisions. Being able to make a decision and act upon it…

— Helen Mirren

I used to oppose women's suffrage and I've come to support it because these women have convinced me that we need full…

— Louis D. Brandeis

“It’s everywhere: a system of thought and a set of invented and discriminatory practices in our laws, culture and economy that feminists…

— Robert Webb

“Because I am a transvestite, people often assume that this gives me a special insight into the opposite gender. But this is…

— Grayson Perry

“A text by a minority writer is effective only if it succeeds in making the minority point of view universal. ('The Universal…

— Monique Wittig

“In 2015, the writer Alex Blank Millard engaged in her own gender-swap experiment to highlight the misogynist nature of online abuse. Sick…

— Emma A. Jane

“Unfortunately Women these days, complain A LOT about "wanting" to be equal to men, and insist that they "are" equal to men.…

— Hamidreza Bagheri

Feeling comfortable with your body as you go through a transition is not easy, and honestly, as a trans person on hormones…

— Carmen Carrera

It is my vision that we all will dedicate the next decade to achieve universal literacy and education for all children, especially…

— Greg Mortenson

“Being creatures means that we cannot re-create ourselves in any fashion or form that we desire by a simple act of the…

— Andrew T. Walker

You know, in Russia we say there are three things you can't choose: your parents, your gender and your president.

— Ksenia Sobchak

Clearly, there is a gender imbalance when it comes to venture capital and entrepreneurship.

— David Cohen

I never, ever grew up as a young woman believing that my gender would stand in the way of doing anything I…

— Jacinda Ardern

Creative individuals are more likely to have not only the strengths of their own gender but those of the other one, too.

— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

I'm very committed to anti-racism and gender equality - political issues, but not party political.

— David Baddiel

I hope to be viewed and judged first and foremost by my accomplishments and capabilities as a leader - regardless of my…

— Heather Bresch

Top Gear' is for the whole family, regardless of gender, sitting down together to enjoy some slightly silly escapism.

— Chris Harris

“they all think men are obsolete. useless. as if we're just some sexual appendix.”

— Chuck Palahniuk

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

— Hillary Clinton

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

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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

— Danica Patrick

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

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