Gender Quotes - Page 3

• Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Funny, Sex, Women

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• Society as a whole benefits immeasurably from a climate in which all persons, regardless of race or gender, may have the opportunity to earn respect, responsibility, advancement and remuneration based on ability.

  Sandra Day O'Connor

  Responsibility, Opportunity, Equality

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• If there were genders to genres, fiction would be unquestionably feminine.

  William H. Gass

  Would Be, Fiction, Feminine

  William H. Gass (2012). “World Within The Word”, p.74, Knopf

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• We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races, even alone in genders.

  Maya Angelou

  Ignorance, Being Alone, Thinking

  "Campus Life: Centenary; Love Is Message As Maya Angeloub Addresses 700", www.nytimes.com. March 11, 1990.

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• The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says, 'It's a girl.'

  Shirley Chisholm

  Girl, Equality, Emotional

  "Anthology : Quotations and Sayings of People of Color" by Walter B. Hoard, (p. 36), 1973.

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• I don't think anyone should pick a candidate for any office based solely on gender. That would be, I believe, a mistake.

  Jim Nussle

  Mistake, Believe, Thinking

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• If someone believes they are limited by their gender, race or background, they will become more limited.

  Carly Fiorina

  Believe, Race, Powerful Women

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• I basically get stereotyped a lot in terms of being a girl and writing 'chick' music for teenage girls or something. I think, if anything, the press kind of, because of my gender and my age, tends to kind of relegate my work to this sort of special-interest group. It's part of the cultural dynamic, I guess.

  Ani DiFranco

  Girl, Teenage, Writing

  "Interview: Righteous Babe Ani DiFranco". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. September 8, 1999.

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• A lot of kids are bullied because of their sexual identity or expression. It's often the effeminate boys and the masculine girls, the ones who violate gender norms and expectations, who get bullied.

  Dan Savage

  Girl, Kids, Boys

  "Dan Savage Explores College Relationships on his New MTV Show" by Sierra Tishgart, www.teenvogue.com. April 2, 2012.

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• Creating whole departments of ethnic, gender, and other 'studies' was part of the price of academic peace. All too often, these 'studies' are about propaganda rather than serious education.

  Thomas Sowell

  Creating, Serious, Study

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• One day our descendants will think it incredible that we paid so much attention to things like the amount of melanin in our skin or the shape of our eyes or our gender instead of the unique identities of each of us as complex human beings.

  Franklin A. Thomas

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Freedom

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• The woman who is known only through a man is known wrong.

  Henry Adams

  Nature, Men, Known

  Benjamin Franklin, Ulysses S Grant, Andrew Carnegie, Henry Adams (2016). “Great American Lives: The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant, Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie, and The Education of Henry Adams”, p.1577, Open Road Media

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• Simply put, no society can truly flourish if it stifles the dreams and productivity of half its population. Happily, I see evidence all over the world that women are gaining social and economic power that they never had before. This is good news.

  William J. Clinton

  Dream, Population, News

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• Give a man enough rope and he'll wrap himself around your little finger.

  Diane Ackerman

  Men, Giving, Rope

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• There will always be a battle between the sexes because men and women want different things. Men want women and women want men.

  George Burns

  Funny, Sex, Humor

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• The feminine is the foundation on which a peaceful and happy world is to be raised.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Peaceful, Foundation, World

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• Women should be treated as human beings, not as domestic animals.

  Averroes

  Animal, Should, Treated

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• There is no gender identity behind the expressions of gender... identity is performatively constituted by the very 'expressions' that are said to be its results.

  Judith Butler

  Expression, Identity, Results

  Judith Butler, Maxine Elliot Professor of Comparative Literature and Critical Theory Judith Butler (2002). “Gender Trouble: Tenth Anniversary Edition”, p.33, Routledge

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• Sexual, racial, gender violence and other forms of discrimination and violence in a culture cannot be eliminated without changing culture.

  Charlotte Bunch

  Racism, Domestic Violence, Against Violence

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• What everyone in the astronaut corps shares in common is not gender or ethnic background, but motivation, perseverance, and desire - the desire to participate in a voyage of discovery.

  Ellen Ochoa

  Motivational, Perseverance, Discovery

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• I dont think gender is aesthetically defining for me.

  Suzanne Vega

  Thinking, Defining

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• We must focus on people as people, regardless of race, creed, color or gender.

  Mills Lane

  Race, Color, People

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• The many factors which divide us are actually much more superficial than those we share. Despite all of the things that differentiate us - race, language, religion, gender, wealth and so on - we are all equal concerning our fundamental humanity.

  Dalai Lama

  Buddhist, Equality, Race

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• Men are taught to apologize for their weaknesses, women for their strengths.

  Lois Wyse

  Inspirational, Sorry, Women

  "The Rules According to Dee Dee Myers". Interview With Lisa Takeuchi Cullen, content.time.com. February 29, 2008.

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• Feminist art is not some tiny creek running off the great river of real art. It is not some crack in an otherwise flawless stone. It is, quite spectacularly, art which is not based on the subjugation of one half of the species.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Running, Art, Real

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