Gender Quotes

Capitalism knows only one color: that color is green; all else is necessarily subservient to it, hence, race, gender and ethnicity cannot be considered within it.
Thomas Sowell

Cannot, Else, Color

Gender equality is more than a goal in itself. It is a precondition for meeting the challenge of reducing poverty, promoting sustainable development and building good governance.
Kofi Annan

Good, Equality, Goal

I want to state upfront, unequivocally and without doubt: I do not believe that any racial, ethnic or gender group has an advantage in sound judging. I do believe that every person has an equal opportunity to be a good and wise judge, regardless of their background or life experiences.
Sonia Sotomayor

Life, Good, Wise

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

Different, Country, Fair

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

Kids, Often, Expression

Most men are very attached to the idea of being male, and usually experience a lot of fear and insecurity around the idea of being a man. Most women are very identified with their gender, and also experience a tremendous amount of fear and insecurity.
Andrew Cohen

Women, Men, Experience

The one thing that unites all human beings, regardless of age, gender, religion or ethnic background, is that we all believe we are above-average drivers.
Dave Barry

Age, Religion, Human

As far as I'm concerned, being any gender is a drag.
Patti Smith

Far, Concerned, Drag

If a person is homosexual by nature - that is, if one's sexuality is as intrinsic a part of one's identity as gender or skin color - then society can no more deny a gay person access to the secular rights and religious sacraments because of his homosexuality than it can reinstate Jim Crow.
Jon Meacham

Nature, Society, Gay

If there's specific resistance to women making movies, I just choose to ignore that as an obstacle for two reasons: I can't change my gender, and I refuse to stop making movies.
Kathryn Bigelow

Change, Women, Movies

Class, race, sexuality, gender and all other categories by which we categorize and dismiss each other need to be excavated from the inside.
Dorothy Allison

Race, Inside, Class

There is no original or primary gender a drag imitates, but gender is a kind of imitation for which there is no original.
Judith Butler

Imitation, Original, Drag

I say the law should be blind to race, gender and sexual orientation, just as it claims to be blind to wealth and power. There should be no specially protected groups of any kind, except for children, the severely disabled and the elderly, whose physical frailty demands society's care.
Camille Paglia

Power, Society, Care

That one can love another of the same gender, that is what the homophobe really cannot stand.
Stephen Fry

Love, Same, Cannot

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

Respect, Society, May

You think intercourse is a private act; it's not, it's a social act. Men are sexually predatory in life; and women are sexually manipulative. When two individuals come together and leave their gender outside the bedroom door, then they make love.
Andrea Dworkin

Life, Love, Women

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

Said, Behind, Results

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

Someone, Become, Race

I love to be individual, to step beyond gender.
Annie Lennox

Love, Individual, Step

Your race and gender don't change, but you can choose to change your political affiliation at will.
John Podhoretz

Change, Political, Choose

Whether born from experience or inherent physiological or cultural differences our gender and national origins may and will make a difference in our judging.
Sonia Sotomayor

Experience, May, Judging

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

Music, Work, Age

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

Work, Good, Concerned

Study after study confirms that even when you control for variables like profession, education, hours worked, age, marital status, and children, men still are compensated substantially more - even in professions, like nursing, dominated by women. No wonder there's a gender gap.
Dee Dee Myers

Education, Age, Women

As long as the G.O.P., led by its increasingly visible women, continues to insist that the problem is not their policies but women's failure to understand their own lives and interests, the gender gap won't go away.
Dee Dee Myers

Women, Failure, Long

I'm the result of upbringing, class, race, gender, social prejudices, and economics. So I'm a victim again. A result.
James Hillman

Again, Social, Result

For me, Barack Obama's election was a milestone of the most extraordinary kind. On the day he was elected I felt such hope in my heart. I thought we were seeing the beginning of a new era of equal opportunity across race and gender such as America had never known before.
Jesse Jackson

Hope, Heart, Thought

The power I exert on the court depends on the power of my arguments, not on my gender.
Sandra Day O'Connor

Power, Court, Depends

I love technology, and I don't think it's something that should divide along gender lines.
Marissa Mayer

Love, Technology, Along

Given that sexual orientation is innate and that we are all, in theological terms, children of God, to deny access to some sacraments based on sexuality is as wrong as denying access to some sacraments based on race or gender.
Jon Meacham

God, Children, Wrong

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