Gender Quotes - Page 25

• In the next decade we plan to create the first gender balance engineering school in Africa. We believe women should be part of the solution.

  Patrick Awuah, Jr.

  Believe, School, Engineering

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• It is not gender, nor age, nor race, but your ability to work hard at what you love.

  Cory Doctorow

  Hard Work, Race, Age

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• Women are a source of energy in life. I've always wanted to be in a war or baseball movie, but the thought of having no women on set for six months - that's hell. I don't know if it's animalistic or what, but men become like peacocks with their feathers up when women are around.

  Bradley Cooper

  Baseball, War, Men

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• For me, a director is a director immaterial of the gender. At the end of the day, the audience is only interested in watching a good film.

  Boman Irani

  The End Of The Day, Directors, Film

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• The clarity of gender makes possible the human dialectic. Let the lines of balanced tension go slack and the structure dissolves into the ooze of androgyny and narcissism.

  Bill Vaughan

  Men, Lines, Narcissism

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• In an essay 10 years ago, I pointed out that it is utterly logical for polygamy rights to follow gay rights. After all, if traditional marriage is defined as the union of (1) two people of (2) opposite gender, and if, as advocates of gay marriage insist, the gender requirement is nothing but prejudice, exclusion and an arbitrary denial of one's autonomous choices in love, then the first requirement - the number restriction (two and only two) - is a similarly arbitrary, discriminatory and indefensible denial of individual choice.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Gay, Individual Choice, Two

  "Pandora and Polygamy". jewishworldreview.com. March 17, 2006.

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• You have to be invited to the party. You have to be invited to work, which is weird. That can be frustrating. But gender inequality is pretty similar through almost every industry, unfortunately.

  Daryl Hannah

  Party, Inequality, Frustrating

  "SENSE8: Daryl Hannah Reflects on Performing in the Wachowskis’ Latest Project". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 10, 2015.

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• The movie industry had it better in the '30s and '40s, in terms of gender equality, than it does now, both in payment and in job ratios. It's ludicrous. Are we in the modern world, or what?

  Daryl Hannah

  Jobs, Doe, World

  "SENSE8: Daryl Hannah Reflects on Performing in the Wachowskis’ Latest Project". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 10, 2015.

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• I'm a big believer in education. If people learn the truth, they'll see the benefit if they have gender neutral policies.

  Brigid Schulte

  People, Benefits, Bigs

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• Norway is pretty forward thinking in terms of gender equality, but we don't seem to practice it as well as we think. I'm constantly thinking: How much power have we really gained? We have to keep fighting to even keep what we've fought for already.

  Jenny Hval

  Fighting, Thinking, Practice

  "Jenny Hval's Soft Dick Rock". Interview with Jenn Pelly, pitchfork.com. June 15, 2015.

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• Eleanor Roosevelt once said, ‘No one can make you feel inferior without your permission.’ With stories from her own life and data carefully researched, Sheryl Sandberg reminds women that they have to believe in themselves and reach for opportunities. More women than men may need that advice, but I'd bet that both genders would profit from this very well-done book

  Marjorie Scardino

  Believe, Book, Men

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• Achieving gender equality is about disrupting the status quo - not negotiating it.

  Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka

  Gender Equality, Achieve, Status Quo

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• Race, gender, religion, sexuality, we are all people and that's it. We're all people. We're all equal.

  Connor Franta

  Race, People, Sexuality

  "Youtube star Connor Franta comes out as gay in tearful, emotional video" by Jessica Hyndman, www.mtv.com. December 8, 2014.

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• I am not in favour of quotas. Just put the best person into the job. It is not about gender; it is about experience, leadership and vision.

  Angela Ahrendts

  Jobs, Vision, Quota

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• Everyone in the world should have a trench coat, and there should be a trench coat for everyone in the world. It does not matter your age; it doesn't matter your gender.

  Angela Ahrendts

  Should Have, Age, Doe

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• The image of God, then, involves gender identity and complementarity. God created gender in duality as male and female.

  Andrew Comiskey

  Identity, Males, Female

  Andrew Comiskey (2009). “Strength in Weakness: Healing Sexual and Relational Brokenness”, p.25, InterVarsity Press

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• God makes it clear that his image bearers must live in dynamic communion with one another, thereby discovering and celebrating the good gift of one's own gender and that of the other. With a cross-shaped lens, we behold the beauty of man for woman and woman for man. None of us has ever lost that original design. No matter how broken we have become, we have never lost the potential to be good gifts for others!

  Andrew Comiskey

  Men, Broken, Design

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• There can be no more thrilling idea of intimacy that connecting with someone through the agency of the written word. Here we meet, on the page, naked and unadorned: shorn of class, race, gender, sexual identity, age and nationality. The reader I seek is a tautology, for he/she is simply exactly the person who wants to read what I have written...

  Will Self

  Race, Class, Ideas

  "Will Self". Interview with Sarah Kinson, www.theguardian.com. May 9, 2007.

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• As a dedicated, successful writer, Lydia Sigourney violated essential elements of the very gender roles she celebrated. In the process, she offered young, aspiring women writers around the country an example of the possibilities of achieving both fame and economic reward.

  Lydia Sigourney

  Country, Successful, Roles

  "Work, Domesticity and Localism: Women's Public Identity in Nineteenth-Century Hartford, Connecticut". Book by Melissa Ladd Teed, 1999.

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• I think the gender story will become less fraught with hard edges - and not that we'll have androgyny, but that men and women will move more fluidly into each other's domains.

  Elizabeth Lesser

  Moving, Men, Thinking

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• And there are also languages that divide nouns into much more specific genders. The African language Supyire from Mali has five genders: humans, big things, small things, collectives, and liquids. Bantu languages such as Swahili have up to ten genders, and the Australian language Ngan’gityemerri is said to have fifteen different genders, which include, among others, masculine human, feminine human, canines, non-canine animals, vegetables, drinks, and two different genders for spears (depending on size and material).

  Guy Deutscher

  Animal, Vegetables, Two

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• Women made up 44% of Olympic competitors at London 2012 - the greatest show of gender equality in Olympic history. By comparison, in the 1908 Games men outnumbered women 53 to 1.

  Donna de Varona

  Men, Games, London

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• The most important factor in determining whether you will succeed isn’t your gender, it’s you. Be open to opportunity and take risks. In fact, take the worst, the messiest, the most challenging assignment you can find, and then take control.

  Angela Braly

  Opportunity, Challenges, Risk

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• Further strengthenings of the self-centered instinct for survival recruit even greater numbers of people into some sort of ring of fellowship (church or gender, red state or blue) by populating the terra incognita outside the ring with enough barbarians to verify the existence of a civilization within--to define the preferred stock by what, as all good people agree, it decidedly is not.

  Lewis H. Lapham

  Civilization, Numbers, Blue

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• I think that one of the things that we all agree to is that the touchstone for economic policy is, does it allow the average American to find good employment and see their incomes rise; that we can't just look at things in the aggregate, we do want to grow the pie, but we want to make sure that prosperity is spread across the spectrum of regions and occupations and genders and races; and that economic policy should focus on growing the pie, but it also has to make sure that everybody has got opportunity in that system.

  Barack Obama

  Opportunity, Thinking, Race

  "After the Great Recession". Interview with David Leonhardt, www.nytimes.com. April 28, 2009.

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