Gender Quotes

639 Gender quotes by 456 unique authors

It's imprecise and insufficient, defining the homosexual as a person whose gender expression is at odds with his or her sex. — Alison Bechdel
We don't have a clue what it is to be male or female, or if there are intermediate genders. Male and female might be fields… — Kathy Acker
Even if an alcoholic is powerless over alcohol once it enters his body, he still makes a choice to drink. And, even if someone is… — Rick Perry
It is a tragedy, I feel, that people of a different sexual type are caught in a world which shows so little understanding for homosexuals… — Emma Goldman
I appreciate the sentiment that I am a popular woman in computer gaming circles; but I prefer being thought of as a computer game designer… — Roberta Williams
Defining men as the perpetrators of all violence is a viciously immoral judgment of an entire gender. And defining women as inherently nonviolent condemns us… — Katherine Dunn
I don't see gender as the most significant fact of human existence. — Jim Harrison
I do think the attempt to raise consciousness has succeeded. People are very aware of gender concerns now — Clifford Geertz
Gender consciousness has become involved in almost every intellectual field: history, literature, science, anthropology. There's been an extraordinary advance — Clifford Geertz
We are in the process of making the English language gender-neutral, and manliness, the quality of one gender, or rather, of one sex, seems to… — Harvey Mansfield
I met people on college campuses who were defining themselves as genderqueer to express revolutionary feelings, or to communicate their individuality; they were gender fluid… — Andrew Solomon
I don't think anyone should pick a candidate for any office based solely on gender. That would be, I believe, a mistake. — Jim Nussle
I don't care what gender someone is, or what race they are. Those things don't matter to me. — Louie Gohmert
Do we need recourse to a happier state before the law in order to maintain that contemporary gender relations and the punitive production of gender… — Judith Butler
Gender is not something that one is, it is something one does, an act… a doing rather than a being. — Judith Butler
Gender is a kind of imitation for which there is no original; in fact, it is a kind of imitation that produces the very notion… — Judith Butler
For taxpayers, however, it’s [pay equity] a rip-off. And it has nothing to do with gender. Both men and women taxpayers will pay additional money… — Stephen Harper
We have all been injured, profoundly. We require regeneration, not rebirth, and the possibilities for our reconstitution include the utopian dream of the hope for… — Donna J. Haraway
If there's specific resistance to women making movies, I just choose to ignore that as an obstacle for two reasons: I can't change my gender,… — Kathryn Bigelow
We chose the most interesting image available to us to illustrate the theme of the cover, which is what we always try to do. We… — Jon Meacham
When two individuals come together and leave their gender outside the bedroom door, then they make love. — Andrea Dworkin
Stopped as attribute of a person, sex inequality takes the form of gender; moving as a relation between people, it takes the form of sexuality.… — Catharine MacKinnon
As I said in the Times and will say again here, I do, however, believe that most members of our community — as well as… — Cynthia Nixon
Though I am flattered that Governor Palin has chosen to cite me as a source of wisdom, what I said had nothing to do with… — Madeleine Albright
Gender reassignment is an exorcism of the mother — Germaine Greer

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