Gender Quotes - Page 28

• Our mothers are our most direct connection to our history and gender.

  Hope Edelman

  Mother, Connections, Direct

  Hope Edelman (1994). “Motherless Daughters: The Legacy of Loss”, Delta

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• claims about what's 'natural' have long been used to reinforce traditional gender roles and values. ... Even the notion that women should have children at all is based on the idea that a woman's inherent and most important role is that of mother. Shockingly, men's 'innate' roles are a lot more fun than the ones bestowed on women.

  Jessica Valenti

  Mother, Children, Fun

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• When it comes to dividing Americans on the basis of their gender, I know a little something about the subject.

  Kay Bailey Hutchison

  Littles, Dividing, Bases

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• When industry people see something different they don't know what to do with it, so filmmakers who make films about women, they kind of fall through the cracks. If a woman filmmaker makes film about war, like [Kathryn] Bigelow, they say "Okay, this is a war film, it has ninety percent men in it, we know what to do with it." But then she still gets attacked for not doing it properly. [...] But even though it bothers me I don't want to dwell on the sex and gender thing.

  Signe Baumane

  Sex, War, Fall

  "Animating the Unspeakable". Interview with Isabel Ortiz, logger.believermag.com. May 14, 2015.

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• In terms of homosexuality, not everyone is prepared for a daily struggle against nature. In some ways, people who challenge and subvert their biologically-determined body are struggling against nature. It's a mysterious combination of nature and nurture that determines a person's gender, and for whatever reason some people are driven to challenge their biological "destiny". It's a difficult struggle, and I believe it takes a lot of courage.

  Bruce LaBruce

  Believe, Struggle, Destiny

  Interview with Jane Harris, logger.believermag.com. May 29, 2014.

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• There is a tendency under capitalism system to reduce everything to a kind of commodity fetish, and this order tends to promote extremely conventional and uniform expressions of gender and sexuality in order to promote certain products and lifestyle choices that are commercialized. This necessarily entails a capitulation to heteronormativity, or in the case of the new gay movement, a "homonormativity" that doesn't stray far from the heterosexual paradigm. Anyone who questions these normative values and conventions is subject to disapproval, hostility, or even violence.

  Bruce LaBruce

  Gay, Order, Lifestyle Choices

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• Unfortunately I'm still straight. But who knows, life is complicated and maybe I'll wake up gay tomorrow! Here's hoping. And congratulations to everyone who lives in a place where they can marry the person they love, regardless of gender!

  Moby

  Congratulations, Gay, Wake Up

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• We all have to acknowledge the life and the path we were born into. And the things that define us, they're often somewhat narrow: our class, our race, our gender, where we grew up, what geography we were exposed to. The curiosity and wonderment of, "What it's like on your path?" - that's when you go into high alert.

  Debra Granik

  Race, Class, Curiosity

  "Debra Granik on "poverty porn," self-worth, and her new film, Stray Dog". Interview with Sam Fragoso, www.avclub.com. July 11, 2015.

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• There is no religious or any kind of a gender that should separate you from any religious ideas.

  Russell Simmons

  Religious, Ideas, Kind

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• With women, you always have to make an educated decision to figure out what they're thinking. It's not one that's necessarily sympathetic, always. Of course, we're all human beings, but the gender thing is big thing. And a great thing.

  Will Oldham

  Thinking, Decision, Figures

  Interview with Ryan Schreiber, pitchfork.com. September 1, 2001.

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• Zoologists have reckoned there are up to at least 750 species of animal that have been observed exhibiting same-sex behaviour, or gender role transformation (which is very common in a wide range of fauna). There is only one species on earth, however, which has exhibited homophobia or transphobia. And that is the species homo sapiens sapiens. Us. So let's not allow the foolish, ignorant or bigoted ever to use words like "natural."

  Stephen Fry

  Sex, Animal, Ignorant

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• There's no question that the black middle class has benefited greatly by the civil rights movement. But there is a large black underclass that does not have access to jobs. If there's no clear road to income and status except crime, we should expect social problems. You can't solve this problem without addressing the economic issues, and the same is true with gender.

  Betty Friedan

  Jobs, Class, Issues

  Source: www.minneapolisfed.org

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• People often tell me, "You write such great women." I don't think about it, I just write characters as rigorously and as truthfully as I can and hope, no matter their gender, that their humanity comes through.

  Donald Margulies

  Writing, Character, Thinking

  "Interview with Playwright, Donald Margulies". Interview with Ted Sod, www.broadwayworld.com. January 13, 2014.

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• conventional English usage, including the generic use of masculine-gender words, often obscures the actions, the contributions, and sometimes the very presence of women. Turning our backs on that insight is an option, of course, but it is an option like teaching children that the world is flat.

  Casey Miller

  Children, Teaching, Use

  Casey Miller, Kate Swift (2001). “The Handbook of Nonsexist Writing”, p.8, iUniverse

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• I have brought him [my son] up to think that purity and virtue are both masculine and femanine gender, and that God's angels are not necessarily all she ones.

  Marietta Holley

  Angel, Son, Equality

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• It is enough to make anybody's blood bile in thier vains to think how different sin is looked upon in a man and woman. I say sin is sin, and you can't make goodness out of it by parsin' it in the masculine gender, no more'n you can by parsin' it in the feminine or neutral.

  Marietta Holley

  Equality, Men, Thinking

  Marietta Holley (1875). “My Opinions and Betsy Bobbet's: Designed as a Beacon Light, to Guide Women to Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness, But which May be Read by Members of the Sterner Sect, Without Injury to Themselves Or the Book”, p.113

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• The strongest common bond between the genders is the universally acknowledged truth that both men and women are unhappy with their hair.

  Linda Sunshine

  Men, Hair, Unhappy

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• The general public have a warped view of the speed at which an investigation proceeds. They like to imagine tense conversations going on behind the venetian blinds and unshaven, but ruggedly handsome, detectives working themselves with single-minded devotion into the bottle and marital breakdown. The truth is that at the end of the day, unless you've generated some sort of lead, you go home and get on with the important things in life - like drinking and sleeping, and if you're lucky, a relationship with the gender and sexual orientation of your choice.

  Ben Aaronovitch

  Drinking, Sleep, Home

  Ben Aaronovitch (2011). “Moon Over Soho”, p.33, Del Rey

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• I don't believe in categorising a gender, as it makes for discord. People always say, 'That's what men are like' or, 'That's what women do'; I don't really feel that at all. I think that's because I have two fathers, three brothers, a husband and two sons. I'm surrounded by maleness, and I couldn't possibly summarise them into a type.

  Natascha McElhone

  Brother, Husband, Father

  "What I know about men". Interview with Eva Wiseman, www.theguardian.com. February 9, 2008.

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• In many parts of the world, women and girls are especially vulnerable to HIV/AIDS because they lack control over most aspects of their life. Cultural expectations and gender roles expose women and girls to violence, sexual exploitation and far greater risk for infection.

  Hillary Clinton

  Girl, Expectations, Risk

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• people share a common nature but are trained in gender roles.

  Lillie Devereux Blake

  People, Roles, Common

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• Although we have not assigned God a sexual orientation, a height, or eye color, we have thought nothing of assigning a gender and a religion (God always belongs to the same one we do).

  Rosalie Maggio

  God, Eye, Color

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• Perhaps it is time to debate culture. The common story is that in "real" African culture, before it was tainted by the west, gender roles were rigid and women were contentedly oppressed.

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  Real, West, Culture

  "Nigeria's immorality is about hypocrisy, not miniskirts" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, www.theguardian.com. April 2, 2008.

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• Our religious police has the most dangerous effect on society - the segregation of genders, putting the wrong ideas in the heads of men and women, producing psychological diseases that never existed in our country before, like fanatacism.

  Basmah bint Saud

  Country, Religious, Men

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• I'd love for there to be a situation - a world in which that's just not even a question anymore. We are all filmmakers - different stripes, genders, sexual orientations, colors - and our work can be taken on its own terms. I'm really looking forward to that day.

  Lynn Shelton

  Taken, Color, Stripes

  "Sundance Interview with Lynn Shelton - Director of Touchy Feely". Interview with Melissa Silverstein, www.indiewire.com. February 5, 2013.

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