Female Quote by Gloria Steinem Download Open image “When gender comes down upon us, male or female, it comes as a restriction.” — Gloria Steinem ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Female Gender Males Restriction
We are born as who we are, the gender thing is something that is imposed on you. — Laverne Cox Copy Share Image
The problem with gender is that it prescribes how we should be, rather than recognising how we are. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
In our steady insistence on proclaiming sex-distinction we have grown to consider most human attributes as masculine attributes, for the simple reason that they… — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
At the end of the day, the sovereignty of maleness is an illusion. In essence and in origin, we are all entirely female. — Anohni Copy Share Image
The gender thing doesn't exist; it's a social construct you don't have to fit into. — Rain Dove Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Gender rules were made to be broken, especially if you have been told throughout history that you're 'less than.' — Ananya Birla Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
The problem with gender is that it prescribes how we should be rather than recognizing how we are. Imagine how much happier we would… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
People waste more time waiting for someone to take charge of their lives than they do in any other pursuit. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Nothing will happen automatically. Change depends on what you and I do every day. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Women are never again going to be mindless coffee-makers or mindless policy-makers in politics. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
The state of female artists is very good. But the very definition of art has been biased in that 'art' was what men did… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
We will live to see the day that St. Patrick's Cathedral is a child-care center and the pope is no longer a disgrace to… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Just when you thought multi-nationals and crazed consumerism were too big to fight, along comes Naomi Klein with facts, spirit, and news of successful… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
I don't know Beyoncé, but I have the impression that she's sincere, that she really is a feminist and wanted to put the word… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
I started out life as a writer, and writers write in part because they don't want to talk. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Sadomasochiasm - which we know very well doesn't exist in societies that don't have child abuse - is regarded some sort of natural sexual… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
“Part of traveling over years means coming back to the same place and knowing it for the first time.” — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
“If attempting to make the world a civilized one, makes you a bad woman in the eyes of the dumb patriarchal society, then, by… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
If you do a black character or a female character or an Asian character, then they aren't just that character. They represent that race… — Dwayne McDuffie Copy Share Image
The memoir by women, read by female readers, is considered a market form, not "great literature." — Kate Zambreno Copy Share Image
It was given out that the animals there practised cannibalism, tortured one another with red-hot horseshoes, and had their females in common. This was… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I really think there's no difference between an art piece made by a man and one made by a woman. Is it a good… — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
One argument goes that recessions are good for female artists because when money flies out the window, women are allowed in the house. The… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
I wasn't really into body piercings until I found that about half my female students had them. — Kathy Acker Copy Share Image
So far as female beauty is concerned, the Circassian women have no superiors. They have preserved in their mountain home the purity of the… — Bayard Taylor Copy Share Image
I think Gypsy [Rose Lee] would be appalled at today's rawer, more blatant displays of the female form. She was, in her own way,… — Karen Abbott Copy Share Image
Daily contact with some teachers is itself all-sided ethical education for the child without a spoken precept. Here, too, the real advantage of male… — G. Stanley Hall Copy Share Image
I think it is kind of depressing how few female filmmakers there are. I think it is in general depressing how few women there… — Susanne Bier Copy Share Image