Gender Quotes · Page 29

“I don't know why people persist in believing women are inferior, when it is quite clear that men are the more feeble-minded…

— Julia Quinn

Women don't paint very well. It's a fact. There are, of course, exceptions. Agnes Martin or, from the past, Paula Modersohn-Becker.

— Georg Baselitz

Gender equality and women's empowerment have been a top priority for me from day one as Secretary-General. And I am committed to…

— Ban Ki-moon

Can I help you with something?" Clary turned instant traitor against her gender. "Those girls on the other side of the car…

— Cassandra Clare

The 'X-Men' stories are the stories of outsiders: people who don't fit into normal society and are ostracised; it's a metaphor for…

— Noah Hawley

Countries with short workweeks consistently top gender' equality rankings. The central issue is achieving a more equitable distribution of work.

— Rutger Bregman

“People like to think they're open-minded, but if you toss a tired gender stereotype on their path they'll run with it every…

— Karen M. McManus

“Education about gender and peace is important. Educational strategies to promote peace must consider all relations of dominance.”

— Widad Akrawi

I have always firmly believed that every director should be judged solely by their work, and not by their work based on…

— Kathryn Bigelow

“[T]he full and complete development of a country, the welfare of the world and the cause of peace require the maximum participation…

— United Nations

There are numbers of different types of partnerships or pairings that may exist in society that aren't same-gender sexual relationships that provide…

— Lance B. Wickman

In the name of feminism, we denied some essential aspects of our authentic selves. While feminism should have been nothing if not…

— Marianne Williamson

“One night he said abruptly: Stephen won't marry—I don't want her to marry; it would only mean disaster.' And at this Anna…

— Radclyffe Hall

I have an immigrant story. Most people come here for economic reasons, or religious reasons, or racial reasons, or gender reasons, or…

— Jacques Pepin

The fact that I'm a woman is as important to my work as a poet as the fact that Ahmad Shāmlu was…

— Simin Behbahani

“As Miriam released my hand I felt that she and Midwife Bell had returned to a more primitive world, where men never…

— J.G. Ballard

Workplace harassment and gender discrimination exist in all spheres, not just films. I have been lucky enough not to face it, but…

— Navya Nair

I think rather than feeling persecuted that youre meeting up with a challenge simply because of the gender you belong to, I…

— Aishwarya Rai

I think there are more transgendered in America than there are people who worry about the comfort and security who broke in…

— Ann Coulter

But the issue of sexual harassment is not the end of it. There are other issues - political issues, gender issues -…

— Anita Hill

I want for every child - regardless of their background, gender, caste, etc. - to be able to access schools that are…

— Hima Das

In language gender is particularly confusing. Why, please, should a table be male in German, female in French, and castrated in English?

— Marlene Dietrich

Race and gender quotas, whether in publishing, the media, or scientific research labs, are becoming more extreme and more ineluctable.

— Heather Mac Donald

“They worried to an excessive degree about getting gender correct, as if elves gave a shit. Humans could keep their concerns about…

— Sabrina Zbasnik

I mean, I always just ignored the glass ceilings and didn't let gender get in my own way, which I think was…

— Kari Skogland

I'll say this, and this has nothing to do with gender or sexuality: You do not want to get licked in the…

— Josh Radnor

When feminism does not explicitly oppose racism, and when antiracism does not incorporate opposition to patriarchy, race and gender politics often end…

— Kimberle Williams Crenshaw

The gaming industry is a fairly liberal, hip place, and if you're making games people really don't care what your gender is.…

— Brenda Romero

When I got to be a CEO, I said: 'Right. I'm now going to tackle gender inequality head-on. I'm going to make…

— Gail Kelly

Look, "Gender trouble" includes a critique of the idea that there are two ideal bodily forms, two ideal morphologies: the masculine and…

— Judith Butler

The problem with the spectrum that is trans-ness and where people like Caitlyn Jenner lie, transitioning and being trans is more than…

— Angelica Ross

Gender diversity brings prosperity - to the country that sees its economy grow, to the business seeking to raise its profits, and…

— Penny Mordaunt

“There are, of course, still people out there who think that the reproductive functions of women's bodies should exclude them from the…

— Emer O'Toole

The preoccupation with transition and with surgery objectifies trans people, and we don't get to really deal with the real lived experiences.

— Laverne Cox

I was born with the wrong body, being feminine by gender but male by sex, and I could achieve completeness only when…

— Jan Morris

“None of us exists in this world apart from being one gender or another, and in fact our existence as male and…

— Ruth Haley Barton

I would put all the efforts to humanize the "masculine" and "feminine" gender roles that are the beginning of a false human…

— Gloria Steinem

Efforts to bar transgender people from restrooms are nothing more than an attempt to codify discrimination before our country advances any further…

— Sarah McBride

“There was no single gay point of view. Like skin color or gender or any of those arbitrary, sometimes artificial, difference sexual…

— Kelly J. Cogswell

I love my gay brothers. I love my lesbian sisters. I love my transvestite, my gender-bending folk. For me, it's a matter…

— Cornel West