Gender Quotes - Page 23

• Gender based violence anywhere is a threat to peace and security everywhere.

  John F. Kerry

  Violence, Threat, Peace And Security

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• We all have a cross-gender character: Every woman has a man that they can play, and every man has a woman that they can play.

  Gael Garcia Bernal

  Character, Men, Play

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• In a war, no matter the outcome of a certain skirmish or battle, the winner is the party whose attitudes, behaviors and preoccupations come to dominate the postwar landscape. By this measure, the outcome of the gender wars, if wars they were, is clear: women won.

  Marcus Buckingham

  Attitude, War, Party

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• Educational equality doesn't guarantee equality on the labor market. Even the most developed countries are not gender-equal. There are still glass ceilings and 'leaky pipelines' that prevent women from getting ahead in the workplace.

  Michelle Bachelet

  Country, Educational, Glasses

  "UN Women Head Michelle Bachelet: ‘Gender Equality Is Good Business’". Interview with Elisabeth Braw, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 19, 2012.

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• The 2010 global gender gap report by the World Economic Forum shows that countries with better gender equality have faster-growing, more competitive economies.

  Michelle Bachelet

  Country, Gender Gap, World

  "UN Women Head Michelle Bachelet: ‘Gender Equality Is Good Business’". Interview with Elisabeth Braw, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 19, 2012.

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• U.N. Women was created due to the acknowledgement that gender equality and women's empowerment was still, despite progress, far from what it should be. Transforming political will and decisions, such as the Member States creating U.N. Women, into concrete steps towards gender equality and women's empowerment, I think is one of the main challenges.

  Michelle Bachelet

  Thinking, Political Will, Creating

  UN News Centre Interview, www.un.org. December 3, 2012.

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• When an office-holder facing a multi-count indictment says that he has decided to spend more time with his family, the proper response is a horse-laugh. When an accused politician explains that a charge of corruption is 'really' an attack on his or her race, religion, ethnic background or gender, the odds that something felonious happened jumps.

  Jeff Greenfield

  Horse, Race, Odds

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• Spain travel tip: If bathroom genders are indicated by flamingos, the boy flamingo is the one with a hat. I learned this the hard way.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Travel, Boys

  Twitter post from Jul 10, 2009

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• You know, the genders are different in how they approach things, and so I really think that women put a lot more guilt on themselves than need be.

  Jane Curtin

  Thinking, Guilt, Different

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• In any situation that calls for you to persuade, convince or manage someone or a group of people to do something, the ability to tell a purposeful story will be your secret sauce.

  Peter Guber

  Winning, People, Secret

  "Storytelling to help your career" by Rachel Farrell, www.cnn.com. June 29, 2011.

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• There are different chemistries you can have in different bands, and part of that's caused by the gender.

  Susanna Hoffs

  Different, Band, Chemistry

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• American movies are often very good at mining those great underlying myths that make films robustly travel across class, age, gender, culture.

  Tom Hooper

  Travel, Class, Age

  "Tom Hooper: the man who doesn't need Oscar". Interview with Catherine Shoard, www.theguardian.com. February 24, 2011.

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• Propelled by freedom of faith, gender equality and economic justice for all, India will become a modern nation. Minor blemishes cannot cloak the fact that India is becoming such a modern nation: no faith is in danger in our country, and the continuing commitment to gender equality is one of the great narratives of our times.

  Pranab Mukherjee

  Country, Commitment, Justice For All

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• I have lectured at the U.N. and travelled widely, giving lectures on human rights and gender inequalities in universities. But this is a life I do not wish to live. I don't want to be a showcase, I want to be in a battlefield where I can stand beside the oppressed and the poor.

  Taslima Nasrin

  Rights, Giving, Wish

  "Exiled writer says: 'I am dying every day in the west'". Interview with Anthony Dias, www.theguardian.com. August 10, 2009.

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• I believe writers need to be chameleons, or like Meryl Streep, who can play all sorts of characters. A good writer should be able to cross gender lines and people of all social classes. So for me, writing from a male point of view would be a great challenge, that I would look forward to taking on.

  Marisha Pessl

  Believe, Character, Writing

  "Off the Page: Marisha Pessl". Live chat, www.washingtonpost.com. October 26, 2006.

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• As a kid, you get to the stage where you realise the gender barriers that exist in society and what you're supposed to do and not supposed to do.

  Andrej Pejic

  Kids, Stage, Barriers

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• I guess professionally I've left my gender open to artistic interpretation.

  Andrej Pejic

  Artistic, Interpretation, Left

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• I have an immigrant story. Most people come here for economic reasons, or religious reasons, or racial reasons, or gender reasons, or one of those things. I had a good job in Paris, but America was, and still is, the golden fleece. And I've done very well!

  Jacques Pepin

  Religious, Jobs, Paris

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• I have a big passion about civil rights for everyone - whoever is being downtrodden at the moment, it doesn't matter: racial discrimination or sexual orientation or gender. Whatever it is, I'm there. I think I was a born civil rights activist. I can't stand the smashing of a community. It's not fair and it's not right.

  Pauley Perrette

  Passion, Thinking, Rights

  "Pauley Perrette: from NCIS to the Daily Planet". Interview with Robert Greenberger, www.comicmix.com. June 8, 2012.

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• As a partner in a firm full of women who work outside of the home as well as stay at home mothers, all with plenty of children, gender equality is not a talking point for me. It is an issue I live every day.

  Hilary Rosen

  Mother, Children, Home

  "Hilary Rosen Apologizes To Ann Romney, Calls For End To ‘Faux War’ Against Moms" by Jennifer Bendery, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 12, 2012.

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• I'll say this, and this has nothing to do with gender or sexuality: You do not want to get licked in the face repeatedly by another human being. You just don't. It's not pleasant.

  Josh Radnor

  Want, Faces, Sexuality

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

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• I have been studying women’s political behavior since the early 1970s and first identified the gender gap in 1980 with the help of legendary pollster Louis Harris.

  Eleanor Smeal

  Gender Gap, Political, Gaps

  "The Gender Gap Rules 2012 Election" by Eleanor Smeal, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 1, 2012.

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• Hedi was and is still misspelled 'Heidi' and my perception of genders ended up slightly out of focus from an early age.

  Hedi Slimane

  Focus, Perception, Age

  "Hedi Slimane: putting the flounce into fashion" by Viv Groskop, www.theguardian.com. October 6, 2012.

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• There's still a massive inequality between the genders. If you look at the trajectory of a male actor's career, there's no hesitation or hiatus. But women after the age of 35 to 40 are rarely placed in the centre of the story.

  Juliet Stevenson

  Careers, Age, Hiatus

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• As I started to pursue the subject more deeply I realized that walking was this wonderful meandering path through everything I was already interested in - gender politics, public space and urban life, demonstrations and parades and marches. The relationship between walking and thinking and between the mind and the body.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Thinking, Space, Mind

  "Thinking on Her Feet / Author Rebecca Solnit wrote a book about walking -- while on the move" by Sam Whiting, www.sfgate.com. May 02, 2000.

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