Gender Quotes - Page 16

• 'Man up' is a sexist term that should be retired along with all the other gender-based imperious imperatives.

  Christine Pelosi

  Men, Sexist, Should

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• By all measures men are the more violent gender.

  Steven Pinker

  Men, Violent

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• Your race and gender don't change, but you can choose to change your political affiliation at will.

  John Podhoretz

  Race, Political, Affiliation

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• I asked all of our recruiters to give me all resumes of prospective employees with their name, gender, place of origin, and age blacked out. This simple change shocked me, because I found myself interviewing different-looking candidates - even though I was 100% convinced that I was not being biased in my resume selection process.

  Eric Ries

  Simple, Names, Giving

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• Religiosity turns out to be the best indicator of civic involvement: it's more accurate than education, age, income, gender or race.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Race, Age, Income

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• I'm not telling women to be like men. I'm telling us to evaluate what men and women do in the workforce and at home without the gender bias.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Home, Men, Gender Bias

  "Sheryl Sandberg: Gender equality won't happen unless men speak up". Interview with Soledad O'Brien, Tara Kelly, www.cnn.com. April 17, 2013.

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• I don't hold myself out as a role model. I don't believe that everyone should make the same choices; that everyone has to want to be a CEO, or everyone should want to be a work-at-home mother. I want everyone to be able to choose. But I want us to be able to choose unencumbered by gender choosing for us.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Mother, Believe, Home

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• School is very conformist, and one of the very first conforming that goes on in preschool and kindergarten is gender.

  Dan Savage

  School, Goes On, Firsts

  "Dan Savage on 'The Commitment'". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. November 22, 2005.

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• I felt alien my whole life but I didn't feel alien because of my gender. Other people made me aware of my gender.

  Patti Smith

  People, Aliens, Made

  "The life and deaths of Patti Smith". Interview with Amy Raphael, www.theguardian.com. November 1, 2008.

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• The issue of gender was never my biggest concern; my biggest concern was doing good work. When the feminist movement really got going, I wasn't an active part of it because I was more concerned with my own mental pursuits.

  Patti Smith

  Issues, Feminist, Movement

  "The life and deaths of Patti Smith". Interview with Amy Raphael, www.theguardian.com. November 1, 2008.

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• My hope is that I will take the good from my experiences and extrapolate them further into areas with which I am unfamiliar. I simply do not know exactly what that difference will be in my judging. But I accept there will be some based on my gender and my Latina heritage.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Differences, Judging, Heritage

  "White House: Sotomayor Says She Chose Words Poorly in 2001 Remarks". www.foxnews.com. May 29, 2009.

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• What I do know is that traditional gender roles are very real and flipping the norm is difficult for even the strongest, funniest, smartest men.

  Patti Stanger

  Real, Men, Roles

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• Success on the front of women's rights will look like a world not only with obvious advances - where no girl is denied access to education, for instance - but also one with more subtle changes in how we regard gender and gender stereotypes.

  Adora Svitak

  Girl, Rights, Looks

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• I don't think people should have boundaries put on them, by themselves or society or another gender, because it's our birthright to experience life in whatever way we feel best suits us.

  Hilary Swank

  Thinking, Should Have, People

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• People in love don't see gender, colour or religion. Or age. It's about the other person, the one that you love and who loves you. You don't think of them in terms of a label. You just go with your heart.

  Sam Taylor-Wood

  Love, Heart, Thinking

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• Sometimes it's not even a role that's specifically written for a woman. It could be a role written for a white man or Asian man, or Latino. If it's something that I feel I could do well, I go after it. Especially if it's nothing that has to be gender or race specific, I'm all over it.

  Gabrielle Union

  Men, Race, White Man

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• I'm not one that believes that affirmative action should be based on one's skin color or one's gender, I think it should be done based on one's need, because I think if you are from a poor white community, I think that poor white kid needs a scholarship just as badly as a poor black kid.

  J. C. Watts

  Believe, Kids, Thinking

  "J.C. Watts exits political arena". Interview with Paul Begala, www.cnn.com. November 15, 2002.

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• People have evolved into something selfish, greedy and intolerant. People are unaccepting, because of religion, race, gender, sexual orientation... I've seen it in punk clubs, and I've seen it in the world.

  Gerard Way

  Selfish, Race, People

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• Neither gender is routinely more jealous - although women are more willing to work to win back a lover, while men tend to flaunt their money and status and are more likely to walk out to protect their self-esteem or save face.

  Helen Fisher

  Self Esteem, Jealous, Winning

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• I have always been interested in gender politics, so I'm not that keen on doing things that don't represent a truth about women.

  Romola Garai

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• I was not ladylike, nor was I manly. I was something else altogether. There were so many different ways to be beautiful.

  Michael Cunningham

  Beautiful, Different, Way

  Michael Cunningham (2010). “A Home at the End of the World: A Novel”, p.10, Macmillan

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• Interviewer: What would you say to a woman in this country who assumes she is no longer oppressed, who believes women's liberation has been achieved? el Saadawi: Well I would think she is blind. Like many people who are blind to gender problems, to class problems, to international problems. She's blind to what's happening to her.

  Nawal El Saadawi

  Country, Believe, Thinking

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• The Statue of Liberty's gender changed nothing. It was the same here as anywhere: men and their wars.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  War, Men, Liberty

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• S and M is only the expression in the bedroom of an oppressive-submissive relation which can happen also in the kitchen or at the factory, can happen between people of any gender. There is obviously something titillating about these relationships, but it isn't the sexual components that makes them ugly, they're uglier elsewhere. Nothing sexual is depraved. Only cruelty is depraved, and that's another matter.

  Marilyn French

  Expression, People, Kitchen

  Marilyn French (2011). “The Women's Room”, p.391, Simon and Schuster

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• The boys at school are so degenerate that it makes one feel pessimistic about the future of the male gender in general.

  Regina Doman

  School, Boys, Males

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