Confusing Quote by Marlene Dietrich

All the English speakers, or almost all, have difficulties with the gender of words.

— Bernard Pivot

In many patriarchies, language, as well as cultural tradition, reserve the human condition for the male. With the Indo-European languages this is a nearly…

— Kate Millett

Gender is not something that one is, it is something one does, an act... a "doing" rather than a "being". There is no gender…

— Judith Butler

The big trick is just to get to a point where we're just considered DPs, and we're not 'female DPs.' When you think of…

— Rachel Morrison

In any good piece of writing, it should be easy enough to switch genders.

— Ruth Bradley

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

— Gloria Steinem

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

— Leslie Feinberg

When you write, you are not either sex. But when you're read you are definitely gendered.

— Hilary Mantel

Why does 'writer' have no gender, but 'actor' has a gender? What is that?

— Abbi Jacobson

The old languages - at least the ones I know - don't have gender. They don't have gendered pronouns. There's no "he" and "she."…

— Gloria Steinem

When we say gender is performed, we usually mean that we've taken on a role or we're acting in some way and that our…

— Judith Butler

For me, the genders are an essential element of numbers and letters, not something that could be removed from them.

— Leni Zumas