Gender Quotes - Page 21

• Defining men as the perpetrators of all violence is a viciously immoral judgment of an entire gender. And defining women as inherently nonviolent condemns us to the equally restrictive role of sweet, meek, and weak.

  Katherine Dunn

  Sweet, Men, Feminist

  "Just as Fierce". www.motherjones.com. November/December 1994.

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• Gender has always been considered a fact immutable. But we now know it's actually more fluid, complex, and mysterious. Because of my success, I never have the courage to share my story. Not because I thought what I am is wrong but because of how the world treats those of us who wish to break free.

  Geena Rocero

  Wish, Stories, World

  "Why I must come out". TED conference, www.ted.com. March 2014.

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• Always remember, wherever you are, whether near or far, you had a mother who really, really loved you. The original mother. Once you've found your true inner guru you can never again be divided. Perfect union with the divine, through the grace of your real teacher, transcends time, space, death and all worldly limitations. Your real teacher is the original mother - regardless in which manifest or non-manifest form, or gender, she appears. The one who nurtures you and the one who also, out of wisdom and compassion, corrects you if you are misguided.

  Zeena Schreck

  Mother, Teacher, Real

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• The material world is all feminine. The feminine engergy makes the non-manifest, manifest. So even men (are of the feminine energy). We have to relinquish our ideas of gender in the conventional sense. This has nothing to do with gender, it has to do with energy. So feminine energy is what creates and allows anything which is non-manifest, like an idea, to come into form, into being, to be born. All that we experience in the world around us, absolutely everything (is feminine energy). The only way that anything exists is through the feminine force.

  Zeena Schreck

  Men, Ideas, Energy

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• If parents snicker at racial and gender jokes, another generation will pass on the poison adults still have not had the courage to snuff out.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Family, Racism, Role Models

  Marian Wright Edelman (2013). “The Measure of our Success: A Letter to My Children and Yours”, p.47, Beacon Press

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• Theologians frequently assert that God has no body, no gender, no race and no age. Most people state that God is neither male nor female. Yet most people become flustered, upset or even angry when it is suggested that the God they know as Lord and Father might also be God the Mother, or Goddess.

  Carol P. Christ

  Mother, Father, Race

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• I never pay attention to age or gender. There are just too many other more important things to consider.

  Martha Stewart

  Important, Age, Attention

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• There’s no such thing as sexism against men. That's because sexism is prejudice + power. Men are the dominant gender with power in society.

  Anita Sarkeesian

  Men, Prejudice, Sexism

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• The problem with gender is that it prescribes how we should be, rather than recognising how we are.

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  Problem, Should

  "We Should All Be Feminists". Book by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, July 29, 2014.

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• Your gender identity is who you are. Sexual identity is who you bounce that off of.

  Andrew Solomon

  Identity, Bounce, Who You Are

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• You just wish sometimes that people would treat you like a human being rather than seeing your gender first and who you are second.

  Frances O'Grady

  People, Wish, Firsts

  "Never mind glass ceilings, what about glass skirting boards?". Interview with Kevin Maguire, www.theguardian.com. January 29, 2003.

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• Gender, race, ethnicity - these are all morally neutral. But homosexuality is - involves voluntary sexual conduct with serious public health, social, sociological implications. It's not irrational to discriminate on that basis.

  Scott Lively

  Race, Ethnicity, Serious

  "Uganda Punishing Gays: 'Sodomy Is Not A Human Right' Says Evangelical Leader". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. February 27, 2014.

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• Scientists who do deny their politics—who claim to be objective and unemotional about gender while living in a world where even boats and automobiles are identified by sex—are fooling both themselves and the public at large.

  Anne Fausto-Sterling

  Sex, World, Boat

  Anne Fausto-Sterling (1992). “Myths of Gender: Biological Theories about Women and Men”, p.12, Basic Books

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• To Forget Venice is a tour de force of ventriloquism. Elegant, contemporary, and wry, the voice at its center is also capable of disarming flights of imagination as it enters and inhabits other lives across time and gender. The glittering, fetid city emerges as a complex metaphor for the human heart’s simultaneous tenderness and capacity for cruelty, its ‘silver glow / a local specialty: filth / disguised as ornament.’ This Venice is unforgettable.

  Chase Twichell

  Heart, Venice, Cities

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• Grounded in international human rights, gender equality doesn’t just improve the lives of individual women, girls, and their families; it makes economic sense, strengthens democracy, and enables long-term sustainable progress.

  Helen Clark

  Girl, Women, Equality

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• Gender equality and empowerment of women is key to the success of the Millennium Development Goals. Not only as a specific target, but for the goals in general. Women bear a heavier burden of the world's poverty than men, because of the discrimination they face in education, health care, employment and control of assets.

  Johanna Sigurðardottir

  Men, Keys, Goal

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• We put a gender lens on our whole value chain.

  Paul Polman

  Inspiring, Lenses, Economic

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• So why, after prior successes, did Obama's race/class/gender attack finally sputter out like the French at Waterloo?

  Victor Davis Hanson

  Race, Class, Notable

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• I am much more open about categories of gender, and my feminism has been about women's safety from violence, increased literacy, decreased poverty and more equality.

  Judith Butler

  Safety, Feminism, Poverty

  Udi Aloni, Slavoj Zizek, Alain Badiou, Judith Butler (2011). “What Does a Jew Want?: On Binationalism and Other Specters”, p.205, Columbia University Press

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• Recently, John and I got to go to Selma and perform it on the same bridge that Martin Luther King walked over. Once a landmark of a divided nation, the spirit of this bridge now for all people regardless of race, gender, sexual orientation or social status. This bridge was built on hope and welded with compassion. Common

  John Legend

  Kings, Compassion, Race

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• A family is a family not because of gender but because of values, like commitment, trust and love.

  Gray Davis

  Cute, Commitment, And Love

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• People have foolishly mistaken equality for sameness. Equality of the genders means that both have equal value and worth, and one is not better than the other. But it doesn't mean we're all exactly the same. And many of us who still believe in gender separation say, 'Vive la difference!

  Mike Huckabee

  Believe, Mean, Differences

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• These are my words; this is their world, a world in which we can wear our gender on our sleeves, unabashedly, as we go about the business of thinking out loud.

  Anna Quindlen

  Thinking, World, Loud

  Anna Quindlen (2010). “Thinking Out Loud: On the Personal, the Political, the Public and the Private”, p.1, Ballantine Books

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• The basic Buddhist stand on the question of equality between the genders is age-old. At the highest tantric levels, at the highest esoteric level, you must respect women: every woman.

  Dalai Lama

  Buddhist, Age, Levels

  Interview with Claudia Dreifus. Archives, www.nytimes.com. 1993.

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• To maintain their power, dominant groups create and maintain a popular system of 'commonsense' ideas that support their right to rule. In the United States, hegemonic ideologies concerning race, class, gender, sexuality, and nation are often so pervasive that it is difficult to conceptualize alternatives to them, let alone ways of resisting the social practices that they justify.

  Patricia Hill Collins

  Practice, Class, Ideas

  Patricia Hill Collins (2000). “Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment”, p.284, Psychology Press

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