Attributes Quote by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

When gender comes down upon us, male or female, it comes as a restriction.

— Gloria Steinem

Every social trait labelled masculine or feminine is in truth a human trait. It is our human right to develop and contribute our talents…

— Wilma Scott Heide

“One of the most pusillanimous things we of the female sex have done throughout the centuries is to have allowed the male sex to…

— Madeleine L'Engle

What we really need to look at is gender fluidity and the idea that gender can be customised however you want.

— Hari Nef

The demands of having to be 'masculine' are as damaging to men as the demands of having to be 'feminine' are to women. I…

— Naomi Alderman

The problem with gender is that it prescribes how we should be, rather than recognising how we are.

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

There's room for many definitions of masculinity in the modern era.

— Kemp Muhl

I think maybe it's more important to know the traditional concepts we have for thinking about how bodies are feminine or masculine or how…

— Judith Butler

We are born as who we are, the gender thing is something that is imposed on you.

— Laverne Cox

I think we have to accept a wide variety of positions on gender. Some want to be gender-free, but others want to be free…

— Judith Butler

We are people, individuals comprising a variety of sexes, races, shifting sexualities and all the rest of it. Every convention that tries to reinforce…

— Robert Webb

When I was born, there was a very isolated idea of what it meant to be a man or a woman, and you belonged…

— Javier Bardem