Gender Quotes - Page 32

• Setting aside the issue of gender while highlighting the symmetry of bodies seemed indispensable in order to focus on the narrative of human beings in the making.

  Alante Kavaite

  Order, Issues, Focus

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• It became normal for women on the internet to adopt gender-neutral or male screen names.

  Arthur Chu

  Names, Males, Normal

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• As Baudelaire said it so beautifully, Emma Bovary is an androgynous character. She cannot be reduced to a gender or a sociological type. She represents something bigger than herself. That was the genius of Flaubert: the ability to combine the general and the particular.

  Sophie Barthes

  Character, Genius, Baudelaire

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Writers of either gender ought to be able to do the opposite sex-that's one basic test of competence, after all.

  Julian Barnes

  Sex, Opposites, Tests

  Julian Barnes, Vanessa Guignery, Ryan Roberts (2009). “Conversations with Julian Barnes”, p.78, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I never think that being a woman is so hard. Maybe don't think about your gender and be confident as you go forward rather than try to single yourself out as some underserved part of filmmaking.

  Jerusha Hess

  Thinking, Trying, Being A Woman

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Because I also teach college, I am around a lot of young women who are just starting out, and I often see them coming up against certain expectations that may be more gender-specific.

  Liza Johnson

  College, Expectations, May

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• This is going to sound cliché perhaps, but I would say to not second-guess yourself. It's difficult to talk about because gender does play into directing, of course, but it's very hard to talk about. Maybe the worst part is what you internalize.

  Julia Loktev

  Play, Sound, Doe

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• It doesn't happen often, it's what you dream and hope for. We are happy, but we want to make sure these changes have teeth. What we want to get across most is that this is a real opportunity for the military. They can step up and be a leader on misogyny and gender issues.

  Amy Ziering

  Dream, Military, Real

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• The gender prism is just descending upon us. For instance, when we're girls of nine or 10 we may be climbing trees and saying, "I know what I want. I know what I think." And then suddenly at 11 or 12, the gender role takes hold, and adults tell us, "How clever of you to know what time it is." It happens to boys, too and even sooner - between five and eight. Before that, boys cry and express uncertainty.

  Gloria Steinem

  Girl, Clever, Thinking

  Source: www.elle.com

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• When the gender role starts to descend, boys get into the masculine box.

  Gloria Steinem

  Boys, Roles, Boxes

  Source: www.elle.com

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• Girls come to the gang for very different reasons than boys. For boys in marginalized communities, they have a gender problem, and they solve it often through gang membership. They find an ability to do masculinity in a way that reasserts their importance in a society that mostly ignores them. For girls, they're coming out of more damaged backgrounds. Their families are often the reason they get propelled into gang membership.

  Meda Chesney-Lind

  Girl, Boys, Community

  "Girls and Gangs". Interview with Lisa Wong Macabasco, www.motherjones.com. December 19, 2005.

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• I don't agree with a core statement by most feminists, the statement by Simone de Beauvoir: "One is not born a woman, one becomes one." Even as a schoolgirl I wasn't convinced by the claim that gender has nothing to do with biology and is only shaped by one's environment.

  Kristina Schroder

  Feminist, Environment, Biology

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I think a certain kind of sexism is so matter-of-fact, and has been for so long, that young women feel less valuable or second-tier if their gender and attractiveness or sexual desirability are not being commented on in the workplace.

  Cris Mazza

  Thinking, Long, Facts

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• I think it's just different to get married for a woman than it is for a man. The amount of work to overcome certain gender roles in the partnership - just the expectation of housework, kid-work, whatever it is.

  Alison Pill

  Kids, Men, Thinking

  Interview with Sheila Heti, believermag.com. February 1, 2013.

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• Everybody brings their thing to their criticism. I bring this wealth of opinions and feeling and knowledge about race and gender and sexuality. I feel like I have it, I may as well express it, and if it's applicable to what I'm writing about and I'm not forcing it, I should try to use it, because it's interesting. It speaks to more than some people.

  Wesley Morris

  Writing, Race, People

  "Wesley Morris, boston globe film critic: 'they hate people who have opinions that run contrary to their fanaticism'". Interview with Naoki O'Bryan, jameson-zimmer.squarespace.com. April 15, 2013.

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• I bring the experiences of women. As a daughter, as a mother, as a wife, as a sister. That is who I am. Those experiences are part of me. And it is part of our American journey that we have moved through so much of what used to hold people back because of gender, because of race.

  Hillary Clinton

  Daughter, Mother, Journey

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• I'm glad people see some of the stories that way. I see where they're coming from, although none of the stories are specifically intended to arouse. There is a gender divide on the short story "The Girlfriend Game" - women seem to consider it "sexy" but men usually find it uncomfortable.

  Nick Antosca

  Sexy, Girlfriend, Men

  The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. September 16, 2013.

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• There is a plan and a purpose, a value to every life, no matter what its location, age, gender or disability.

  Sharron Angle

  Age, Purpose, Matter

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• The real debate about both the horrific inequality in the world and about the terrorism and frightening instability in the world requires analysis of the differences in upset-adaption or alienation-from-soul between individuals, races, genders, generations, countries, civilisations and cultures, but until the human condition could be explained and the upset state of the human condition compassionately understood and thus defended that debate could not take place.

  Jeremy Griffith

  Country, Real, Differences

  Jeremy Griffith (2016). “Freedom: The End of the Human Condition”, p.638, WTM Publishing and Communications

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• We depend on manly characteristics to keep us safe. Every single one of the dead firemen heroes on 9/11 were men. This was one group where liberals didn't ask why there wasn't a more pleasing gender balance, because the Upper West Side is not fireproof. What happens in combat in some distant field is abstract to liberals, but they can understand the need to have strong, brave men in their fire department.

  Kate O'Beirne

  Strong, Hero, Men

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• Woman cannot be free until man's mind is liberated from the megalomania! His self-exaltation is the mother of the gender inequalities. Till we eliminate his exacerbated narcissism, woman will remain unfree!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Mother, Men, Self

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• A pronoun, too, will aptly reflect the number of its antecedent: "they" does not refer to one person, no matter how many personalities she or he has, or how eager you are to skirt the gender frays.

  Karen Elizabeth Gordon

  Numbers, Personality, Doe

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• The minute that you make the discussion in the room more well-rounded, multicultural, and of course having differences in gender, you're going to have a different approach.

  Cara Santa Maria

  Differences, Different, Rooms

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• The examples of female success stories are important on the global scale, as they help to disseminate the idea of gender equality and to spread the roots for the actual implementation of equal rights for women and men and democratic values among different cultures, societies and traditions.

  Dalia Grybauskaite

  Men, Ideas, Roots

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I don't subscribe to that school of thought that leadership can be altogether defined by gender.

  Dalia Grybauskaite

  School, Defined

  Source: www.glamour.com

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