Gender Quotes - Page 17

• Mr. Smith yelled at the doctor, What have you done to my boy? He's not flesh and blood, he's aluminum alloy!" The doctor said gently, What I'm going to say will sound pretty wild. But you're not the father of this strange looking child. You see, there still is some question about the child's gender, but we think that its father is a microwave blender.

  Tim Burton

  Children, Father, Boys

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• No matter what Joe Hoffman and Wade Preston say, it's not gender that makes a family; it's love. You don't need a mother and a father; you don't necessarily even need two parents. You just need someone who's got your back.

  Jodi Picoult

  Mother, Father, Love You

  Jodi Picoult (2014). “Sing You Home: A Novel”, p.360, Simon and Schuster

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• How is love between two people a sin? Love isn't about gender; it's about two souls uniting.

  Alex Sanchez

  Two, People, Soul

  Alex Sanchez (2007). “The God Box”, p.68, Simon and Schuster

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• I am not an angel," I asserted; "and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Integrity, Angel, Dies

  Charlotte Bronte (2013). “Jane Eyre”, p.327, Simon and Schuster

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• ... that gender is a choice, or that gender is a role, or that gender is a construction that one puts on, as one puts on clothes in the morning, that there is a 'one' who is prior to this gender, a one who goes to the wardrobe of gender and decides with deliberation which gender it will be today.

  Judith Butler

  Morning, Clothes, Choices

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• A word of advice, Will Henry. When a person of the female gender says she wants to show you something, run the other way. The odds are it is not something you wish to see.

  Rick Yancey

  Running, Odds, Advice

  Rick Yancey (2010). “The Curse of the Wendigo”, p.193, Simon and Schuster

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• In this life you have to be your own hero. By that I mean you have to win whatever it is that matters to you by your own strength and in your own way. Like it or not, you are alone in a forest, just like all those fairy tales that begin with a hero who’s usually stupid but somehow brave, or who might be clever, but weak as a straw, and away he goes (don’t worry about the gender), cheered on by nobody, via the castles and the bears, and the old witch and the enchanted stream, and by and by (we hope) he’ll find the treasure.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Clever, Stupid, Hero

  Jeanette Winterson (2013). “The Powerbook”, p.155, Random House

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• One day she told me that they'd decided that my gender was divvied into two neat piles-Men and Guys. Basically, all the saints of the world: Men. The jerks, the players, the wet T-shirt contest aficionados? They were Guys.

  Gayle Forman

  Player, Men, Two

  Gayle Forman (2011). “Where She Went”, p.73, Penguin

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• Without the presence of black people in America, European-Americans would not be "white"-- they would be Irish, Italians, Poles, Welsh, and other engaged in class, ethnic, and gender struggles over resources and identity. (p. 107-108)

  Cornel West

  Struggle, Class, White

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• Whatever you proclaim as your identity here in the material realm is also your drag. You are not your religion. You are not your skin color. You are not your gender, your politics, your career, or your marital status. You are none of the superficial things that this world deems important. The real you is the energy force that created the entire universe!

  RuPaul

  Real, Skin Color, Superficial Things

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• And finally, in our time a beard is the one thing that a woman cannot do better than a man, or if she can her success is assured only in a circus.

  John Steinbeck

  Women, Equality, Circus

  John Steinbeck (1980). “Travels with Charley in Search of America”, p.26, Penguin

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• In the nineteenth century, the central moral challenge was slavery. In the twentieth century, it was the battle against totalitarianism. We believe that in this century the paramount moral challenge will be the struggle for gender equality around the world.

  Nicholas D. Kristof

  Believe, Struggle, Challenges

  Nicholas D. Kristof, Sheryl WuDunn (2009). “Half the Sky”, p.17, Vintage

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• They wanted black women to conform to the gender norms set by white society. They wanted to be recognized as 'men,' as patriarchs, by other men, including white men. Yet they could not assume this position if black women were not willing to conform to prevailing sexist gender norms. Many black women who has endured white-supremacist patriarchal domination during slavery did not want to be dominated by black men after manumission.

  Bell Hooks

  Men, White Man, Black

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• The first question we usually ask new parents is : “Is it a boy or a girl ?”. There is a great answer to that one going around : “We don’t know ; it hasn’t told us yet.” Personally, I think no question containing “either/or” deserves a serious answer, and that includes the question of gender.

  Kate Bornstein

  Girl, Boys, Thinking

  Kate Bornstein (2013). “Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women and the Rest of Us”, p.56, Routledge

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• I think writer is a word without gender, and a good writer observes, absorbs, hopefully empathizes then translates that into character and story. You don’t have to do or be or have experienced, traveled to, but you have to imagine all of that, very well–and believe it completely during the bubble of the work.

  Nora Roberts

  Believe, Character, Thinking

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• Marriage should be between a spouse and a spouse, not a gender and a gender.

  Hendrik Hertzberg

  Marriage, Gay, Lgbt Pride

  "Obama and Gay Marriage: Runaway Bride?". www.newyorker.com. June 30, 2011.

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• Utopianism also attempts to shape and dominate the individual by doing two things at once: it strips the individual of his uniqueness, making him indistinguishable from the multitudes that form what is commonly referred to as 'the masses,' but it simultaneously assigns him a group identity based on race, ethnicity, age, gender, income, etc., to highlight differences within the masses.

  Mark Levin

  Race, Ethnicity, Two

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• Thus, gender ideology no only creates ides about femininity but it also shapes conceptions of masculinity.

  Patricia Hill Collins

  Shapes, Femininity, Masculinity

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• my spirit is too ancient to understand the separation of soul & gender

  Ntozake Shange

  Soul, Spirit, Separation

  Ntozake Shange (2010). “For colored girls who have considered suicide/When the rainbow is enuf”, p.45, Simon and Schuster

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• In the most basic terms it was about how when we experience art without critical awareness we consent to the ideas being promoted, either intentionally or unintentionally, by the filmmaker. For instance, if you watch a racist comedian and laugh at his jokes, you are consenting to the prejudices inherent within them. Similarly, if you watch a movie which perpetuates conventional ideas about race, gender, etc., you are consenting to them and not affecting change in any way.

  Simon Pegg

  Art, Race, Ideas

  Simon Pegg (2010). “Nerd Do Well”, p.126, Random House

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• When people say to me, 'Why are you so good at writing at women?' I say, 'Why isn't everybody?' Obviously there are differences between men and women - that's what makes it all fun. But we're all people. There's a lot of good writers who are very humanist, but still manage to kind of skip fifty-five per cent of the race. And I just don't get that. Not to be able to write an entire gender? To me, the question isn't how do you do it? It's how can you possibly avoid doing it?

  Joss Whedon

  Fun, Writing, Men

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• All genders?' whispered Nudge. 'Aren't there just the two' I shrugged. 'No idea. Maybe they've created others.

  James Patterson

  Ideas, Two, Nudge

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• If you are in the closet and fall in love with someone of the same gender, it doesn't automatically remove the shame and fear that's kept you locked away. The love you are experiencing encourages you to face the reality that this is who you really are and also has the power to set you free. The richness, beauty and depths of love can only be fully experienced in a climate of complete openness, honesty and vulnerability. Love, the most powerful of human emotions, is calling you to freedom and wholeness.

  Anthony Venn-Brown

  Love, Honesty, Powerful

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• If so, I couldn't imagine how the opposite gender managed to get out of bed in the morning. They might be lovely to look at, but clear thinking wasn't their strong point.

  Ann Aguirre

  Strong, Morning, Thinking

  Ann Aguirre (2012). “Outpost”, p.43, Macmillan

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• Here we meet, on the page, naked and unadorned: shorn of class, race, gender, sexual identity, age and nationality.

  Will Self

  Race, Class, Age

  Interview with Sarah Kinson, www.theguardian.com. May 09, 2007.

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