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Gender Quotes

If we are going to have to worry all the time that we might offend some students’ sensibilities, we are not going to be able to teach in a way that actually matters. We’re not going to be able to teach about sex, gender, race, religion, or violence.

– Alice Dreger

Gender consciousness has become involved in almost every intellectual field: history, literature, science, anthropology. There’s been an extraordinary advance.

– Clifford Geertz

I’m not convinced that what are traditionally considered to be male energies or qualities or female energies or qualities really have as much to do with gender as many people think they do.

– Andrew Cohen

But the issue of sexual harassment is not the end of it. There are other issues – political issues, gender issues – that people need to be educated about.

– Anita Hill

Everyone in the world should have a trench coat, and there should be a trench coat for everyone in the world. It does not matter your age; it doesn’t matter your gender.

– Angela Ahrendts

What a country needs to do is be fair to all its citizens – whether people are of a different ethnicity or gender.

– Chinua Achebe

Starting early and getting girls on computers, tinkering and playing with technology, games and new tools, is extremely important for bridging the gender divide that exists now in computer science and in technology.

– Beth Simone Noveck

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

– Carly Fiorina

I think the advice, regardless of gender, is always be open to conversations with people who do things differently than you do. If you’re starting to work in tech, talk to the artists, talk to the lawyers, talk to the people who are interested in other things.

– Beth Simone Noveck

Why does ‘writer’ have no gender, but ‘actor’ has a gender? What is that?

– Abbi Jacobson

People have evolved into something selfish, greedy and intolerant. People are unaccepting, because of religion, race, gender, sexual orientation… I’ve seen it in punk clubs, and I’ve seen it in the world.

– Gerard Way

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

School is very conformist, and one of the very first conforming that goes on in preschool and kindergarten is gender.

– Dan Savage

President Obama’s version of America is a divided one – pitting us against each other based on our income level, gender, and social status. His policies have failed! We are not better off than we were 4 years ago, and no rhetoric, bumper sticker, or campaign ad can change that.

– Mia Love

I have been studying women’s political behavior since the early 1970s and first identified the gender gap in 1980 with the help of legendary pollster Louis Harris.

– Eleanor Smeal

I felt alien my whole life, but I didn’t feel alien because of my gender. Other people made me aware of my gender.

– Patti Smith

In any situation that calls for you to persuade, convince or manage someone or a group of people to do something, the ability to tell a purposeful story will be your secret sauce. Telling to win through purposeful stories is situation, industry, gender, demographic, and psychographic-agnostic. It’s an all-purpose, everyone wins tool.

– Peter Guber

As far as I’m concerned, being any gender is a drag.

– Patti Smith

And think of how we challenged the idea of a male dominated Parliament with All-Women shortlists and made the cause of gender equality central to our government. We were right to do so.

– Ed Miliband

Feminism is rooted in racial rights and gender rights, and all of those things intersect, and to say that that’s not something you can stand behind – it confuses me. I think it’s a really great word.

– Mackenzie Davis

It’s so interesting that when somebody’s pregnant, we are obsessed with knowing the gender of the child so we can figure out what we need to buy that child, what the present would be. Like we’re pre-programming the kid before they were born.

– Megan Smith

Violence against women in this country is not levied against just Democrats, but Republicans as well… not just rich people or poor people. It knows no gender, it knows no ethnicity, it knows nothing.

– Gwen Moore

Hospitality knows no gender or race.

– Danny Meyer

The way I approach the character isn’t about being gay or straight. It’s just about who you love. Gender has very little to do with it.

– Mia Kirshner

In the first couple of years when you’re transitioning you don’t really fit into any gender, because you’re changing over. You have to start getting electrolysis before you even start your therapy. But I think all the weird looks help to give you conviction in who you really are.

– Candis Cayne

If you understand gender differences in what I call ‘conversational style’, you may not be able to prevent disagreements from arising, but you stand a better chance of preventing them from spiraling out of control.

– Deborah Tannen

As you get older it’s more confusing. Suddenly, there’s more pressure to fit in to your assigned gender.

– Chaz Bono

The issue of gender was never my biggest concern; my biggest concern was doing good work. When the feminist movement really got going, I wasn’t an active part of it because I was more concerned with my own mental pursuits.

– Patti Smith

The military has been actually remarkable at dealing with race, but gender is an issue.

– Edward Zwick

There are still traces of discrimination against race and gender, but it’s a lot different than when I started out. It just comes quietly, slowly, sometimes so quietly that you don’t realize it until you start looking back.

– Eddie Bernice Johnson

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