Gender Quotes - Page 27

• There can be moments in your life where you may feel attracted to someone depending on circumstance, depending on the person of one gender or another, and sometimes where that is less of an influence in your life.

  Charles M. Blow

  May, Influence, Sometimes

  "After Childhood Abuse, 'Times' Columnist Says He Chose Life Over Vengeance". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. September 24, 2014.

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• Perhaps we could push beyond these legalistic gender roles if we spent less time worrying about “acting like men” and “acting like women,” and more time acting like Jesus.

  Rachel Held Evans

  Jesus, Men, Worry

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• Some philosophers would give a sex to revenge, and appropriate it almost exclusively to the female mind. But, like most other vices, it is of both genders; yet, because wounded vanity and slighted love are the two most powerful excitements to revenge, it has been thought, perhaps, to rage with more violence in the female heart.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Sex, Powerful, Revenge

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.107

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• I have never had any great esteem for the generality of the fair sex, and my only consolation for being of that gender has been the assurance it gave me of never being married to any one among them.

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  Sex, Married, Consolation

  Mary Wortley Montagu, James Archibald Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie Wharncliffe (1837). “The Letters and Works: In Three Volumes”, p.143

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• war is a man's game ... the killing machine has a gender and it is male.

  Virginia Woolf

  War, Men, Games

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• As a concept [androgyny] raise[s] anxiety levels by conjuring up a conformist, unisex vision, the very opposite of the individuality and uniqueness that feminism actually has in mind.

  Gloria Steinem

  Opposites, Anxiety, Individuality

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• [On gender-rating by insurance companies:] They say the reason they get to charge more is we have children. I would say having children is a socially useful act. Being female is not a preexisting condition.

  Gloria Steinem

  Children, Female, Reason

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• The union of feminine and masculine energies within the individual is the basis of all creation.

  Shakti Gawain

  Energy, Unions, Creation

  Shakti Gawain (2010). “Meditations: Creative Visualization and Meditation Exercises to Enrich Your Life”, p.26, New World Library

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• I have always felt one of the things dance should do - its business being so clearly physical - is challenge the culture's gender stereotypes.

  Twyla Tharp

  Dance, Challenges, Culture

  Twyla Tharp (1992). “Push Comes to Shove”, Bantam Dell Publishing Group

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• You can really learn from Donahue. I didn't know you could be a woman in a man's body. You go out and you can't parallel park.

  Roseanne Barr

  Men, Body, Parks

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• Safety lies in catering to the in-group. We are not all brave. All I would ask of writers who find it hard to question the universal validity of their personal opinions and affiliations is that they consider this: Every group we belong to - by gender, sex, race, religion, age - is an in-group, surrounded by an immense out-group, living next door and all over the world, who will be alive as far into the future as humanity has a future. That out-group is called other people. It is for them that we write.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Sex, Lying, Writing

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2004). “The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination”, p.197, Shambhala Publications

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• As to sex, the original pleasure, I cannot recommend too highly the advantages of androgyny.

  Jan Morris

  Sex, Pleasure, Advantage

  Jan Morris (1989). “Pleasures of a tangled life”, Vintage

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• I believe the transsexual urge, at least as I have experienced it, to be far more than a social compulsion, but biological, imaginative, and essentially spiritual, too.

  Jan Morris

  Spiritual, Believe, Sexuality

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• I was born with the wrong body, being feminine by gender but male by sex, and I could achieve completeness only when the one was adjusted to the other.

  Jan Morris

  Sex, Males, Body

  Jan Morris (2011). “Conundrum”, p.28, Faber & Faber

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• I'm more interested in a feminism that ends discrimination for all people. It's not just about a woman becoming the CEO of a company or something. It's connected to racism and classism and gender issues that go beyond the binary.

  Kathleen Hanna

  Issues, Racism, People

  "Kathleen Hanna on Bikini Kill, growing up, and being a feminist icon". Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. November 20, 2012.

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• I've never treated anyone badly or in a discriminatory way based on their gender, race, religion or sexuality - period.

  Mel Gibson

  Race, Way, Sexuality

  "Exclusive: Mel Gibson Finally Talks". Interview with Allison Hope Weiner, deadline.com. April 21, 2011.

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• I'm interested in the female dom/male sub dynamic, and how superficially it can seem like a total reverse of gender roles and maybe even subversive or something.

  Marie Calloway

  Males, Female, Roles

  The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. March 19, 2013.

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• Androgyny suggests a spirit of reconciliation between the sexes.

  Carolyn Heilbrun

  Sex, Spirit, Androgyny

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• the term 'androgyny' ... defines a condition under which the characteristics of the sexes, and the human impulses expressed by men and women, are not rigidly assigned. Androgyny seeks to liberate the individual from the confines of the appropriate.

  Carolyn Heilbrun

  Sex, Men, Individual

  Carolyn G. Heilbrun (1974). “Toward a recognition of androgyny”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• I identify myself as an actor, because I feel like you don't go to the doctress, you go to the doctor; it doesn't matter what the gender is. I think actresses worry about eyelashes and cellulite, and women who are actors worry about the characters we are playing. A separate category is another way of making us a special-interest group.

  Alfre Woodard

  Character, Thinking, Doctors

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• Courage is not a matter of gender.

  Josefina Vazquez Mota

  Matter

  "Josefina Vazquez Mota Challenges Mexico's Machismo", www.foxnews.com. February 7, 2012.

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• Nowhere have women been more excluded from decision-making than in the military and foreign affairs. When it comes to the military and questions of nuclear disarmament, the gender gap becomes the gender gulf.

  Eleanor Smeal

  Military, War, Gender Gap

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• Un homme qui lit, ou qui pense, ou qui calcule, appartient a'   l'espe'  ce et non au sexe; dans ses meilleurs moments, il e  chappe me"  me a'   l'humain. A person who reads or thinks or calculates, belongs to a kind and not to a gender; in his or her best moments, he or she escapes being human.

  Stephanie Crayencour

  Thinking, Kind, Moments

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• the gender of God, God's presumed masculinity, has functioned as the ultimate religious legitimization of the unjust social structures which victimize women.

  Sandra Marie Schneiders

  God, Religious, Having Fun

  Sandra Marie Schneiders (1986). “Women and the Word: The Gender of God in the New Testament and the Spirituality of Women”, p.5, Paulist Press

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• What transsexuality emphatically is not is a 'lifestyle,' any more than being male or female is a lifestyle. Gender is many things, but one thing it is surely not is a hobby. What it is, more than anything else, is a fact.

  Jennifer Finney Boylan

  Males, Hobbies, Female

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