Gender Quotes - Page 15

• When migraines briefly became a campaign issue for me, it appeared that political foes were maybe playing the gender card.

  Michele Bachmann

  Issues, Political, Campaigns

  Michele Bachmann (2011). “Core of Conviction: My Story”, p.85, Penguin

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• When I was born, there was a very isolated idea of what it meant to be a man or a woman, and you belonged to one gender or the other.

  Javier Bardem

  Men, Ideas, Born

  "On the Cover: Javier Bardem" by Michael Paterniti, www.gq.com. September 20, 2012.

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• Growing up in a Jewish matriarchal world inside the patriarchal paradise of Salt Lake City, Utah, gave me increased perspective on gender issues, as it also did my gay brother and my lesbian sister. Our younger sister is the perfect Jewish-American wife and mother, and is fiercely proud of that fact.

  Roseanne Barr

  Mother, Brother, Growing Up

  Roseanne Barr (2012). “Roseannearchy: Dispatches from the Nut Farm”, p.86, Simon and Schuster

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• There's a gender in your brain and a gender in your body. For 99 percent of people, those things are in alignment. For transgender people, they're mismatched. That's all it is. It's not complicated, it's not a neurosis. It's a mix-up. It's a birth defect, like a cleft palate.

  Chaz Bono

  Birth Defects, People, Brain

  "The Reluctant Transgender Role Model". Interview with Cintra Wilson, www.nytimes.com. May 6, 2011.

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• Gender is between your ears and not between your legs.

  Chaz Bono

  Ears, Legs

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• As you get older it's more confusing. Suddenly, there's more pressure to fit in to your assigned gender.

  Chaz Bono

  Confusing, Pressure, Fit

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• It's in everyone's best interest to help close the gender gap in the sciences.

  Sarah Brightman

  Gender Gap, Gaps, Helping

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• I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

  Charlotte Bronte (2004). “Jane Eyre”, p.130, Variocity

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• I will do comedy until the day I die: inappropriate comedy, funny comedy, gender-bending, twisting comedy, whatever comedy is out there.

  Sandra Bullock

  Bending, Comedy, Inappropriate

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• 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 resist the violence that is imposed by ideal gender norms, especially against those who are gender different, who are nonconforming in their gender presentation.

  Judith Butler

  Agency, Views, Important

  "Your Behavior Creates Your Gender". Big Think interview, bigthink.com.

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• Hillary Clinton almost got to be president. The reasons why she didn't become president had to do with bad judgments about how to handle the early caucus states, which is not a gender-specific trait.

  Gail Collins

  President, Reason Why, Judgment

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• Sarah Palin is an heir to the women's movement. She has not been constrained by gender. At no point in her life has she thought, 'I can't do that because I'm a woman.'

  Gail Collins

  Movement, Heirs, Palin

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• The history of American women is about the fight for freedom, but it's less a war against oppressive men than a struggle to straighten out the perpetually mixed message about women's role that was accepted by almost everybody of both genders.

  Gail Collins

  War, Struggle, Fighting

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• I am not sure gender ever won't be an issue in comedy, because I think that women do have different priorities in some respects.

  Jenny Eclair

  Thinking, Issues, Priorities

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• It's tragic that you can define a whole movement in music by gender alone. People are like, 'Oh, look, another quirky girl.'

  Paloma Faith

  Girl, People, Quirky

  "Paloma Faith: Causing a stir". Interview with Eleanor Morgan, www.theguardian.com. September 11, 2009.

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• You know, my mum's always encouraged me and never made my gender an issue, I guess. She brought me up to believe in equality, as opposed to feminism or sexism - so it just meant that my gender was not relevant to what I was capable of achieving.

  Paloma Faith

  Believe, Issues, Feminism

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• I find the question of whether gender differences are biologically determined or socially constructed to be deeply disturbing.

  Carol Gilligan

  Differences, Determined, Disturbing

  Carol GILLIGAN (2009). “In a Different Voice”, p.12, Harvard University Press

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• 'Spice Girls' is about unifying the world - every age, every gender, everyone. It's woman power, it's an essence, a tribe.

  Geri Halliwell

  Girl, Essence, Age

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• For me, Barack Obama's election was a milestone of the most extraordinary kind. On the day he was elected I felt such hope in my heart. I thought we were seeing the beginning of a new era of equal opportunity across race and gender such as America had never known before.

  Jesse Jackson

  Heart, Opportunity, Race

  "Jesse Jackson on Obama: 'He struggled to create hope - and succeeded'". Interview with Lisa O'Kelly, www.theguardian.com. October 13, 2012.

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• Women speak because they wish to speak, whereas a man speaks only when driven to speak by something outside himself like, for instance, he can't find any clean socks.

  Jean Kerr

  Women, Wish, Cleaning

  Jean Kerr (1962). “The Snake Has all the Lines”

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• Any smart executive understands that to find the best talent she has to explore new territory that lies beyond familiar geography. That applies not only to gender, but also to race, religion, background and age.

  Madeleine M. Kunin

  Smart, Lying, Race

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• President Obama's version of America is a divided one - pitting us against each other based on our income level, gender, and social status. His policies have failed! We are not better off than we were 4 years ago, and no rhetoric, bumper sticker, or campaign ad can change that.

  Mia Love

  Years, America, President

  "Convention speech highlights Mia Love’s GOP rise". Mia Love's speech during the Republican National Convention at the Tampa Bay Times Forum in Tampa, Florida, dailycaller.com. August 28, 2012.

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• I love technology, and I don't think it's something that should divide along gender lines.

  Marissa Mayer

  Badass, Technology, Thinking

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• Given that sexual orientation is innate and that we are all, in theological terms, children of God, to deny access to some sacraments based on sexuality is as wrong as denying access to some sacraments based on race or gender.

  Jon Meacham

  Children, Race, Sexuality

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• I say the law should be blind to race, gender and sexual orientation, just as it claims to be blind to wealth and power. There should be no specially protected groups of any kind, except for children, the severely disabled and the elderly, whose physical frailty demands society's care.

  Camille Paglia

  Children, Elderly, Law

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