Gender Quote by Dawn Lundy Martin

You cannot call a poem female just because it is written by a woman. Nevertheless, I think attempts to find femininity in female bodies,…

— Kim Hyesoon

Gender is the poetry each of us makes out of the language we are taught.

— Leslie Feinberg

I think that often my work is obscured by my gender identity.

— Hari Nef

As an artist, I never wanted to be fettered by gender nor recognized or defined as a female poet, musician or singer. They don't…

— Patti Smith

I feel if you hold yourself as an artist first and foremost, the barriers of gender come down.

— Ondi Timoner

“Neither black/red/yellow nor woman but poet or writer. For many of us, the question of priorities remains a crucial issue. Being merely "a writer"…

— Trinh T. Minh-ha

People are now writing parts for strong women who might be ambiguous in their gender presentation. They might be gay or trans. But it's…

— Rebecca Root

It is this delightful habit of journalizing which largely contributes to form the easy style of writing for which ladies are so generally celebrated.…

— Jane Austen

When I became a poet, the Korean literary world expected women poets to sing passively of love. Naturally, this was not written anywhere, but…

— Kim Hyesoon

Girl, Woman, Other' by Bernadine Evaristo is so phenomenally written, following the interlinking lives and stories of women of colour navigating life mainly in…

— Vick Hope

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

— Simin Behbahani

It's still true that literary works by women, gays, and writers of color are often framed as specific, rather than universal, small rather than…

— Cheryl Strayed