Gender Quotes - Page 19

• Getting hit on by both genders is such a champagne problem.

  Naya Rivera

  Problem, Champagne

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• Men, I would like to take this opportunity to extend your formal invitation. … Gender equality is your issue, too. … I've seen young men suffering from mental illness, unable to ask for help, for fear it would make them less of a men—or less of a man. I've seen men made fragile and insecure by a distorted sense of what constitutes male success. Men don't have the benefits of equality, either.

  Emma Watson

  Insecure, Opportunity, Men

  United Nations Address on Gender Equality, delivered 20 September 2014

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• We want to end gender inequality, and to do this, we need everyone involved...We want to try to galvanize as many men and boys as possible to be advocates for change and we don't just want to talk about it. We want to try and make sure that it's tangible.

  Emma Watson

  Boys, Men, Trying

  United Nations Address on Gender Equality, delivered 20 September 2014

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• I have a lot of really wonderful friends who are of very different sexes and genders.

  Ezra Miller

  Sex, Wonderful Friends, Different

  "Lost & Found". Interview with Shana Naomi Krochmal, www.out.com. August 15, 2012.

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• To me, a great love story is a great love story, and it doesn't matter what gender is involved.

  Piper Perabo

  Great Love, Wicked, Stories

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Love is pure and true; love knows no gender.

  Tori Spelling

  Love Is, Knows, Pure

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• I think people sometimes get the wrong impression when they're like, Oh, well, so-and-so was straight and then she was gay, and now she's straight again, you know? But it's like, how many times do I have to kiss a woman before I'm gay? Everybody wants to label people. Sometimes you just fall in love with somebody, and you're really not thinking about what gender or whatever they happen to be. It think that if I happen to fall in love with a woman, everyone's going to make a big deal out of it. But if I happen to fall in love with a man, nobody cares.

  Lucy Liu

  Falling In Love, Gay, Kissing

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• People see America through particular lenses, either their profession, their race or their gender. So the party that speaks to our racial perceptions and offers solutions to the racial difficulties which we face is the party that's going to be rewarded with our votes.

  Julian Bond

  Party, Race, America

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• If you talk about race, it does not make you a racist. If you see distinctions between the genders, it does not make you a sexist. If you think critically about a denomination, it does not make you anti-religion. If you accept but don't celebrate homosexuality, it does not make you a homophobe.

  Charlton Heston

  Thinking, Race, Doe

  Winning the Cultural War, delivered 16 February 1999, Austin Hall, Harvard Law School

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• Aspiring black leaders are often asked to transcend race, even though no one ever asked, say, Hillary Clinton to transcend gender. This is a precarious race straddle that most members of the breakthrough generation seem to reject. Even the most well meaning white Obama supporters seem to take deep satisfaction in this idea. Obama, they insisted, could be raceless, a reasurringly optimistic view of America's deepest burden that ignores countless peices of evidence to the contrary.

  Gwen Ifill

  Optimistic, Views, Ideas

  Gwen Ifill (2009). “The Breakthrough: Politics and Race in the Age of Obama”, p.167, Anchor

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• I think feminism's a bit misinterpreted. It was about casting off all gender roles. There's nothing wrong with a man holding a door open for a girl. But we sort of threw away all the rules, so everybody's confused. And dating becomes a sloppy, uncomfortable, unpleasant thing.

  Zosia Mamet

  Girl, Confused, Men

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Sisterhood cannot be assumed on the basis of gender; it must be forged in concrete historical and political practice and analysis

  Chandra Talpade Mohanty

  Sisterhood, Practice, Political

  Chandra Talpade Mohanty (2003). “Feminism Without Borders: Decolonizing Theory, Practicing Solidarity”, p.24, Duke University Press

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• I was assigned male at birth, is the way I like to put it, because I think... we're born who we are... and the gender thing is something someone imposes on you. And so, I was assigned male at birth, but I always felt like I was a girl.

  Laverne Cox

  Girl, Thinking, Males

  "CBS Fawns Over Laverne Cox; Plays Up How Actor Gives 'Hope' to LGBT Community". "CBS This Morning" with Norah O'Donnell and Gayle King, www.mrc.org. July 29, 2014.

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• I do a lot with characters' sense of identity. I also like challenging stereotypes, gender roles, things like that. Give me a stereotype or a genre expectation and the first thing I want to do is stand it on its head. In the Nightrunner books I wanted to see if I could create a believable gay hero, one who wasn't someone's sidekick or a victim.

  Lynn Flewelling

  Book, Hero, Character

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• As a gender variant visual artist I access 'technologies of gender' in order to amplify rather than erase the hermaphroditic traces of my body. I name myself. A gender abolitionist. A part time gender terrorist. An intentional mutation and intersex by design, (as opposed to diagnosis), in order to distinguish my journey from the thousands of intersex individuals who have had their 'ambiguous' bodies mutilated and disfigured in a misguided attempt at 'normalization'. I believe in crossing the line as many times as it takes to build a bridge we can all walk across.

  Del LaGrace Volcano

  Believe, Technology, Journey

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• True equality means holding everyone accountable in the same way, regardless of race, gender, faith, ethnicity - or political ideology.

  Monica Crowley

  Mean, Race, Ethnicity

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• Feminism involves so much more than gender equality and it involves so much more than gender. Feminism must involve consciousness of capitalism (I mean the feminism that I relate to, and there are multiple feminisms, right). So it has to involve a consciousness of capitalism and racism and colonialism and post-colonialities, and ability and more genders than we can even imagine and more sexualities than we ever thought we could name.

  Angela Davis

  Mean, Names, Racism

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• We have to teach our boys the rules of equality and respect, so that as they grow up gender equality becomes a natural way of life. And we have to teach our girls that they can reach as high as humanly possible.

  Beyonce Knowles

  Inspiring, Girl, Growing Up

  "Beyonce: Gender equality is a myth" By Breeanna Hare, www.cnn.com. January 14, 2014.

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• Whatever the gender of the participants, all pornography including male-male gay pornography is an imitation of the male-female, conqueror-victim paradigm, and almost all of it actually portrays or implies enslaved women and master.

  Gloria Steinem

  Gay, Males, Female

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• Countries with more gender equality have better economic growth. Companies with more women leaders perform better. Peace agreements that include women are more durable. Parliaments with more women enact more legislation on key social issues such as health, education, anti-discrimination and child support. The evidence is clear: equality for women means progress for all.

  Ban Ki-moon

  Country, Children, Mean

  "This #WomensEqualityDay, Remember What Your Vote Means" by Charleta B. Tavares, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 26, 2016.

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• True peace must be anchored in justice and an unwavering commitment to universal rights for all humans, regardless of ethnicity, religion, gender, national origin or any other identity attribute.

  Desmond Tutu

  Commitment, Rights, Ethnicity

  "Divesting From Injustice" by Desmond Tutu, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 13, 2010.

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• Women will not simply be mainstreamed into the polluted stream. Women are changing the stream, making it clean and green and safe for all - every gender, race, creed, sexual orientation, age, and ability.

  Bella Abzug

  Women, Race, Age

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• Adult women, all of us, have to come to grips with how we have been affected by gender norms, and how we have been silenced. We have to help our daughters. Understanding it within ourselves and helping our young girls stand up for themselves is one way.

  Jane Fonda

  Girl, Daughter, Women

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• People who don't have gender dysphoria aren't going to catch it by watching me dance on television.

  Chaz Bono

  Inspirational, Dance, People

  "Chaz: You won't get gender dysphoria watching me on 'DWTS'" by Anna Chan, www.today.com. September 6, 2011.

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• He leaned forward and opened his door, politely standing aside to let me by before following me in. There are some advantages to dating a guy from another era, I thought. Though I am a big believer in gender equality, chivalry scores high in my book.

  Amy Plum

  Book, Men, Doors

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