Gender Quotes - Page 36

• The gender gap looks at this point like it's going to favor the president, particularly among white suburban women. I certainly think it's going to be an issue. But I think the single most important thing in this election will be turnout.

  Anna Quindlen

  Thinking, Gender Gap, White

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I'm excited about representing my gender, but at the same time it doesn't matter. I wouldn't say my gender has been a disadvantage.

  Katy B

  Matter, Excited, Disadvantages

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I think that's my hope for a lot of the feminist movement is that the gender thing sort of stops being the selling point, if that makes any sense. We're just people making art, and that's how this process has felt to me.

  Sara Bareilles

  Art, Thinking, People

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I think we're at a really rich and fertile time in the zeitgeist about paying attention to diversity of all kinds - racial diversity, gender diversity, making room for a continuum that is more inclusive.

  Sara Bareilles

  Thinking, Diversity, Attention

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I've always been interested in writing from other people's perspectives and other gender perspectives.

  Bradford Cox

  Writing, People, Perspective

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Gender relations are a sad story of men talking trash about women all over the world.

  John Darnielle

  Men, Talking, Stories

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Depression as one example is an illness that has a chemical basis, but also is deeply embedded in cultural norms about gender, social class, race.

  Jonathan Michel Metzl

  Race, Class, Example

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• There's going to be biological differences between the genders. There's going to be biological differences between two women or two men. There's biological differences between all of us. My concern is, why are we so concerned about it?

  Jessica Valenti

  Men, Two, Differences

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Intimate justice touches on ideas of gender inequity, violence, bodily integrity, physical and mental health. I don't expect a 15-year-old girl to have that figured out; it's hard enough to have it figured out when you're 50.

  Peggy Orenstein

  Girl, Integrity, Years

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• It's not gender-specific, but I do think it's women who tend to start having that sort of little whispering voice of "I want more here" and "I want more for my family."

  Dani Shapiro

  Thinking, Voice, Whispering

  "Book Release: Devotion". Interview with Kari Wethington, www.elle.com. January 7, 2010.

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• The fact is that most husbands, regardless of religion - it's an old-fashioned gender divide where the husband wants to stay home and the wife is the one who drags herself and her children to whatever spiritual center they're going to.

  Dani Shapiro

  Spiritual, Children, Husband

  "Book Release: Devotion". Interview with Kari Wethington, www.elle.com. January 7, 2010.

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• If you watch [The] Search for Signs of Intelligent Life [in the Universe], or The Incredible Shrinking Woman, or 9 to 5, there is a lot of gender politics at the forefront of Lily Tomlin work, which was kind of thrilling for me to be watching as a 10-, 11-, 12-year-old kid.

  Tina Fey

  Kids, Intelligent, Years

  "Tina Fey, Movie Star? Not Quite Yet, She Says". "Morning Edition" with Linda Wertheimer, www.npr.org. March 22, 2013.

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• On the most recent battles on health insurance reform, the women led the battle to end gender discrimination by the insurance companies [where] women paid more and got less of a benefit, and also the whole issue of prevention.

  Barbara Mikulski

  Issues, Battle, Reform

  Interview with Brien Williams, digitalcommons.bowdoin.edu. May 4, 2010.

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• I feel nowadays that both women and men are embracing their individuality rather than being defined by gender roles.

  Miranda Kerr

  Men, Individuality, Roles

  "Love Letters: Miranda Tells All". Interview with Terry Richardson, www.harpersbazaar.com. February 24, 2016.

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• I believe in gender equality and I love that I can represent strong modern-day women.

  Katie Cassidy

  Strong, Believe, Modern

  Source: www.nerdprobs.com

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• I hate to get gender essentialist, but I'm starting to think that a lot of married men have some sort of heterosexually induced dentistry aversion.

  Mallory Ortberg

  Hate, Men, Thinking

  "Gone From the Chapel". "Dear Prudence" with Mallory Ortberg, www.slate.com. March 22, 2016.

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• I'm really lucky because my sister is a real activist soul and also hyper-intellectualized in this way that's really allowed me to wrap my mind around some of the bigger intellectual concepts and really understand the language around identity in the gender nonconforming community.

  Lena Dunham

  Real, Community, Soul

  "Lena Dunham talks Suited: Fashion is a new way into [the LGBTQ] conversation". Interview with Dana Getz, ew.com. June 20, 2016.

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• It doesn't occur to so many people that if you don't have a clear heterosexual, gender confirming identity that there are parts of day-to-day life - like using a bathroom or getting your clothes - that just aren't going to be as easy.

  Lena Dunham

  Clothes, People, Identity

  "Lena Dunham talks Suited: Fashion is a new way into [the LGBTQ] conversation". Interview with Dana Getz, ew.com. June 20, 2016.

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• I used to oppose women's suffrage and I've come to support it because these women have convinced me that we need full gender equality for full democratic participation.

  Louis D. Brandeis

  Support, Needs, Women's Suffrage

  Source: www.slate.com

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• Think of how hard it would be to create a gender-based movement across racial lines as long as one group believes that it has to be strong while seeing the other group as passive and weak. We could also go into the stereotypes of the saucy, mercurial Latina and the docile, easily-dominated Asian woman.

  Melissa Harris-Perry

  Strong, Believe, Thinking

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• It's interesting, gender versus race. I think people say that to women more: 'Oh, you're my favorite female.' They wouldn't say 'favorite black comic.'

  Ilana Glazer

  Thinking, Race, Interesting

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I think anybody has, regardless of your gender, we all have equal value if you have value to bring and value to provide, you just have to be willing to use your voice.

  Stephanie McMahon

  Thinking, Voice, Use

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• I've never felt my gender was an obstacle. There have of course been moments in my career when it has slapped me in the face but the reason I felt it slapped me in the face was because it wasn't something that I had contemplated before.

  Stephanie McMahon

  Careers, Faces, Obstacles

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• Now my mom designs to resign so she runs for US senate, and now at 67 my mom just launched a new company called Women's Leadership Live, she is the cofounder and CEO, and it's all about empowering women to be successful in business however they define success. When you have a role model like that you really don't ever look at gender as an issue and it's about owning your place and taking charge of your role, regardless of what you look like.

  Stephanie McMahon

  Mom, Running, Successful

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• Gender or skin color does not of itself determine the nature of a person's thinking.

  Marianne Williamson

  Thinking, Skin Color, Skins

  Source: scottlondon.com

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