Gender Quotes - Page 22

• I believe profoundly in the possibilities of democracy, but democracy needs to be emancipated from capitalism. As long as we inhabit a capitalist democracy, a future of racial equality, gender equality, economic equality will elude us.

  Angela Davis

  Believe, Elude Us, Long

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• We live in an uncertain world and we want to believe that what a man is and what a woman is-I know that. And people don't want to critically interrogate the world around them. Whenever I'm afraid of something or I'm threatened by something, it's because it brings up some sort of insecurity in me. I think the reality is that most of us are insecure about our gender. They think, 'Okay, if there's this trans person over here, then what does that make me?

  Laverne Cox

  Believe, Pride, Gay

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• The road, more than simply a system of regulations and designs, is a place where many millions of us, with only loose parameters for how to behave, are thrown together daily in a kind of massive petri dish in which all kinds of uncharted, little-understood dynamics are at work. There is no other place where so many people from different walks of life-different ages, races, classes, religions, genders, political preferences, lifestyle choices, levels of psychological stability-mingle so freely.

  Tom Vanderbilt

  Lifestyle Choices, Race, Class

  Tom Vanderbilt (2008). “Traffic”, p.6, Vintage

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• A good play is a good play. If you want to chalk up your rejection letters to the fact that you're a woman, that's your choice. But often you get a rejection letter because your play isn't ready. Or the time isn't ready for your play. And that has nothing to do with gender.

  Jane Anderson

  Play, Choices, Rejection

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• Find something you're passionate about and just love. Passion is really gender neutralizing.

  Marissa Mayer

  Passion, Passionate, Love Passion

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• And I thought, you know, a little gender confusion makes a better person. A little adversity in life at an early age. It's character building.

  Lesley Gore

  Character, Adversity, Confusion

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• I did not know that 'poetess' was an insult, and that I myself would some day be called one. I did not know that to be told I had transcended my gender would be considered a compliment. I didn't know — yet — that black was compulsory. All of that was in the future. When I was sixteen, it was simple. Poetry existed; therefore it could be written; and nobody had told me — yet — the many, many reasons why it could not be written by me.

  Margaret Atwood

  Simple, Black, Would Be

  "Margaret Atwood : Writing Philosophy". Waterstone's Poetry Lecture, Delivered At Hay On Wye, canpoetry.library.utoronto.ca. June 1995.

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• Until we as a gender refuse to wear any shoe that would be uncomfortable to walk a mile in, we’re perfectly screwed.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Shoes, Would Be, Miles

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• Any serious shift towards more sustainable societies has to include gender equality.

  Helen Clark

  Serious, Gender Equality

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• The amount of gender violence that I experience is absolutely extraordinary. And a significant part of my day today will be spent filing police reports at home about gender violence that's directed at me in social media.

  Ashley Judd

  Home, Media, Police

  ashley judd @AshleyJudd, twitter.com. March 17, 2015.

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• Then there’s Isabel Leonard, as the male character, Sesto. Her voice has the rich, fragrant depth of sandalwood and she looks so sublimely boyish yet fulsomely feminine that she combines the best of both genders. I adored her.

  Richard Ouzounian

  Character, Voice, Males

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• Finally I want to say this: If you are a kid and you are out there and you are chubby and not so cute and nerdy and shy and invisible and in pain, whatever your race, whatever your gender, whatever your sexual orientation, I’m standing here to tell you: You are not alone. Your tribe of people, they are out there in the world. Waiting for you.

  Shonda Rhimes

  Cute, Pain, Kids

  Shonda Rhimes (2015). “Year of Yes: How to Dance It Out, Stand In the Sun and Be Your Own Person”, p.239, Simon and Schuster

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• It’s very strange how electronic music formatted
  itself and forgot that its roots are about the
  surprise, freedom, and the acceptance of every race,
  gender, and style of music into this big party.

  Thomas Bangalter

  Party, Acceptance, Race

  "Machines for Life". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com.

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• In distinguishing between Islamic teachings and social taboos, we must remember that Islam forbids injustice; Injustice against people, against nations, against women. It shuns race, color, and gender as a basis of distinction amongst fellowmen. It enshrines piety as the sole criteria for judging humankind.

  Benazir Bhutto

  Teaching, Islamic, Race

  Benazir Bhutto, Pakistan. Directorate of Films & Publications (2008). “Speeches and Statements: Oct. 1993-Nov. 1996”

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• I dont see things with gender, race and culture

  Rad Hourani

  Race, Culture

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• At the end of the day, both men and women who become CEOs have showed tenacity and hard work to succeed in their careers. It takes not just skills but also extreme dedication and commitment. And regardless of gender, CEOs are measured by the same criteria - the growth and success of the business.

  Susan Wojcicki

  Hard Work, Commitment, Dedication

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• A daughter is a mother's gender partner, her closest ally in the family confederacy, an extension of herself. -Author Unknown As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.

  Oscar Wilde

  Mother Daughter, Mother And Daughter, Years

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• Bean-counting government bureaucrats are free to take race, ethnicity and gender into account when doling out public funds to non-white-male contractors. But God help law enforcement officers, air marshals and border agents who try to use those same factors to combat terrorism and protect American lives.

  Michelle Malkin

  White, Race, Government

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• The social order of things has demanded an emphasis on the differences between gender that do not in my opinion in fact exist. I’m not going to go around putting pronouns on everything. Things are often deeply compromised by the set of assumptions you bring to the world, which is this black or white, this male or female.

  Roni Horn

  Order, White, Differences

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• Being a lady is an attitude.

  Chuck Woolery

  Funny, Attitude, Women

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• I am still bowled over by this great young adult novel by David Levithan called 'Every Day,' which is about a character with no gender or body who wakes up every day in the body of a different person. It's a really impressive execution of a really great premise.

  John Green

  Character, Execution, Adults

  "John Green Interview: ‘Fault In Our Stars’ Author Talks Worst Book Ever, Where He Likes To Read". Huffington Post Interview, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 12, 2012.

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• It's difficult to write a book where a character is on virtually every page of the book but you cannot refer to his or her gender. It gets rid of every his, her, she and he.

  William Least Heat-Moon

  Book, Writing, Character

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• Studies have been done showing that there really are gender differences, that women do bring more congeniality and compromise to the table.

  Kitty Kelley

  Differences, Done, Tables

  "Kelley softens tone in new books" by Patrick Gavin, www.politico.com. February 07, 2013.

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• What fiction offers us is an intimacy shorn of the messy contingencies of human existence - gender, race, class or age. Those moments of transcendence when we exclaim "You know exactly what I mean!" depend for much of their force on the anonymous character of the intimacy between writer and reader.

  Will Self

  Character, Mean, Class

  "Incidents along the road" by Will Self, www.theguardian.com. February 6, 2009.

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• If you fall in love with someone gay and you're the opposite gender, it's not going to work.

  Rosie O'Donnell

  Falling In Love, Gay, Opposites

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