Habits Quote by Philomena Essed

It's my view that gender is culturally formed, but it's also a domain of agency or freedom and that it is most important to…

— Judith Butler

“As a result, gender is not to culture as sex is to nature; gender is also the discursive/cultural means by which “sexed nature” or…

— Judith Butler

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

— Gloria Steinem

“In contemporary parlance, sex is biological and gender is socially constructed.”

— Rebecca Solnit

Profanation and violation are part of the perversity of sex, which never will conform to liberal theories of benevolence. Every model of morally or…

— Camille Paglia

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

— Laverne Cox

“If you're looking for sexual tidbits as a female child, and the only ones that present themselves depict child rape or other violations...then your…

— Maggie Nelson

“Our whole cultural perception of sexism, as the context in which the majority of gendered violence happens, seems to be understood in the same…

— 404 Ink

“I consider it presumption in anyone to pretend to decide what women are or are not, can or cannot be, by natural constitution. They…

— John Stuart Mill

Clearly, we are not programmed at birth to behave a certain way based on our gender. Instead, we are trained throughout our lives to…

— Naveen Jain

On an unconscious level, the demonization of sexuality usually implies the demonization of males and the victimization of females.

— Warren Farrell

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