Gender Quotes - Page 26

• Our notions of what a human being is problematically depend on there being two coherent genders. And if someone doesn't comply with either the masculine norm or the feminine norm, their very humaness is called into question.

  Judith Butler

  Two, Feminine, Masculine

  Interview with Jill Stauffer, www.believermag.com. May, 2003.

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• Gender is not something that one is, it is something one does, an act... a "doing" rather than a "being". There is no gender identity behind the expressions of gender; that identity is performatively constituted by the very "expressions" that are said to be its results. If the immutable character of sex is contested, perhaps this construct called 'sex' is as culturally constructed as gender; indeed, perhaps it was always already gender, with the consequence that the distinction between sex and gender turns out to be no distinction at all.

  Judith Butler

  Sex, Character, Expression

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• Much violence against women originates in emotional territory that they already command. By midlife and early old age, as the hormones of both genders change, women are in total, despotic control of their marriages.

  Camille Paglia

  Emotional, Age, Midlife

  Camille Paglia (2011). “Vamps & Tramps: New Essays”, p.46, Vintage

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• Ideally there should not be a men's movement but a gender transition movement; only the power of the women's movement necessitates the temporary corrective of a men's movement. And this creates a special challenge for men: There are few political movements filled with healthy people, yet few healthy changes have occurred without political movements.

  Warren Farrell

  Men, People, Political

  Warren Farrell (1994). “The myth of male power: why men are the disposable sex”

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• Our lives are shaped as profoundly by personality as by gender or race. And the single most important aspect of personality ... is where we fall on the introvert-extrovert spectrum.

  Susan Cain

  Fall, Race, Personality

  Susan Cain (2012). “Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking”, p.2, Broadway Books

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• I like to eat alone in restaurants, with a book, particularly if I am out of town, alone, on business. It's relaxing. I feel not even a twinge of embarrassment. Is this gender-related? Is there a lingering feeling among women that if they are alone in public, they will be judged to be spinsters or spinsters-to-be?

  Gene Weingarten

  Book, Feelings, Towns

  "Chatological Humor: The Big Fat Debate, Part 2". Live Q&A, www.washingtonpost.com. February 17, 2009.

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• I don't think God is a gender. He presents himself as a father but he comes to us with the tenderness of a mother. In some of the parables, he is the housewife who cleans the house looking for the lost coin.

  Max Lucado

  Mother, Father, Thinking

  "Max Lucado, Christian Author, Answers Twitter Followers’ Questions". Religion News Service Interview, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 19, 2012.

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• I can't imagine where I'd be without the opportunities provided to me in sports. Sports taught me that gender isn't an issue; in fact, when people talk about me being the first female governor, I'm a little absent from that discussion, because I've never thought of gender as an issue. In sports, you learn self-discipline, healthy competition, to be gracious in victory and defeat, and the importance of being part of a team and understanding what part you play on that team. You all work together to reach a goal, and I think all of those factors come into play in my role as governor.

  Sarah Palin

  Sports, Team, Opportunity

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• Gender equality is more successful than armed force.

  Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero

  Successful, Gender Equality, Force

  Time Magazine Interview, September 22, 2004.

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• Perhaps MacKinnon should reflect on these suggestions that the censorship issue is not so simple-minded, so transparently gender-against-gender, as she insists. She should stop calling names long enough to ask whether personal sensationalism, hyperbole, and bad arguments are really what the cause of sexual equality now needs.

  Ronald Dworkin

  Simple, Names, Issues

  "Pornography: An Exchange". Ronald Dworkin's reply to "Women and Pornography" by Catherine A. MacKinnon, New York Review of Books, Volume 41, No. 5, www.nybooks.com. March 3, 1994.

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• Recognition of the harm that patriarchy has caused to people and the planet does not mean that men are wrong and women are right; rather it is a call for new organizational forms and for relishing gender differences within a context of equality.

  Elizabeth Lesser

  Mean, Men, Differences

  Elizabeth Lesser (2008). “The Seeker's Guide: Making Your Life a Spiritual Adventure”, p.102, Ballantine Books

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• Las Vegas is perhaps the most color-blind, class-free place in America. As long as your cash or credit line holds out, no one gives a damn about your race, gender, national origin, sexual orientation, address, family lineage, voter registration or even your criminal arrest record. Money is the great leveler.

  Marc Cooper

  Color, Class, America

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• Childbearing is the most consistent of human events. Male and female alike, we have all been gestated inside a woman's body. As a phenomenon, childbearing is seemingly eternal and universal, yet like no other it highlights the gender divide, the singularity of individual experience and sociocultural diversities.

  Joan Raphael-Leff

  Diversity, Males, Events

  Joan Raphael-Leff (2000). “Spilt Milk: Perinatal Loss & Breakdown”, p.1951, Karnac Books

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• Someone from the Internet Writing Workshop sent me a link to the Gender Genie, where you paste in a section of text and it uses an algorithm to detect whether the author is male or female. Or, if you're an author, you can tell whether you're really nailing your opposite-sex characters. I mean, nailing their dialog.

  Max Barry

  Sex, Writing, Character

  "Hand Me My Y-Chromosome". Personal blog, maxbarry.com. August 08, 2005.

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• Women and men are divided by gender, made into the sexes as we know them, by the social requirements of heterosexuality, which institutionalizes male sexual dominance and female sexual submission.

  Catharine MacKinnon

  Sex, Men, Dominance

  Catharine A. MacKinnon (1989). “Toward a Feminist Theory of the State”, p.113, Harvard University Press

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• I am very gender-fluid and feel more like I wake up every day sort of gender neutral.

  Ruby Rose

  Wake Up, Fluid, Feels

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

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• I've been a staunch advocate of women's empowerment, and I've worked hard throughout my career to advance the cause. It is heartening to see that gender equality is really becoming more of a reality. There is still much more to be done, and I'm confident that, by working together, we can empower women worldwide.

  Madhuri Dixit

  Reality, Together We Can, Careers

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• Gender equality and women's empowerment have been a top priority for me from day one as Secretary-General. And I am committed to making sure that the U.N. leads by example.

  Ban Ki-moon

  Priorities, Empowerment, Example

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• As women are empowered, violence can come down, for a number of reasons. By all measures, men are the more violent gender.

  Steven Pinker

  Men, Numbers, Violence

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• Homosexuality is genetically hardwired but race and gender are only ideas. OK. Just trying to keep up.

  Jim Goad

  Race, Ideas, Trying

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• Dividing everybody into genders and sexuality and races and religions, and I think its important to have films out there, to have discussions out there which really try to get to grips with where that kind of thing can lead.

  Chiwetel Ejiofor

  Thinking, Race, Important

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• More attention should have been given to the fundamental transformation which took place during Queen Victoria's reign, from ruling sovereign to constitutional monarch. Again, gender mattered. If Albert had lived, it seems clear that he would have resisted that development much more tenaciously, which the gradual emasculation (and feminization) of monarchy was probably more easily accomplished when a woman was on the throne.

  David Cannadine

  Queens, Should Have, Sovereign

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• I want people to vote, I want them to pay attention. I want them to get up and go and vote and care about this country, inform themselves about the issues and I also want them to not vote for somebody just based on gender or race, based on qualification.

  Kimberly Guilfoyle

  Country, Race, Issues

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Now, I’m not even saying that girls shouldn’t have princesses in their lives, the archetype in and of itself is not innately wrong, but there should be more options to choose from. So that was my intent, to demonstrate how ridiculous it is to paint an entire gender of heroes with one superficial brush.

  David Trumble

  Girl, Princess, Hero

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• Because when an artist has to assert that her intended audience is all humans rather than those who happen to be of her particular gender or race, what she’s actually having to assert is the breadth and depth of her own humanity.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Artist, Race, Humanity

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