Gender Quotes

But let me tell you, this gender thing is history. You're looking at a guy who sat down with Margaret Thatcher across the table and talked about serious issues.
George H. W. Bush

History, Down, Serious

I never felt oppressed because of my gender. When I'm writing a poem or drawing, I'm not a female; I'm an artist.
Patti Smith

Writing, Artist, Felt

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

Change, America, Off

I'm not one that believes that affirmative action should be based on one's skin color or one's gender, I think it should be done based on one's need, because I think if you are from a poor white community, I think that poor white kid needs a scholarship just as badly as a poor black kid.
J. C. Watts

Done, Black, Poor

American Idol transcends age, gender, ethnicity, everything.
Carrie Underwood

Age, Everything, American

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

School, Goes, Conformist

My hope is that I will take the good from my experiences and extrapolate them further into areas with which I am unfamiliar. I simply do not know exactly what that difference will be in my judging. But I accept there will be some based on my gender and my Latina heritage.
Sonia Sotomayor

Good, Hope, Judging

Religiosity turns out to be the best indicator of civic involvement: it's more accurate than education, age, income, gender or race.
Jonathan Sacks

Education, Age, Best

I believe all men, all women, regardless of race, gender, socioeconomic background, you deserve the same rights.
Sophia Bush

Women, Men, Same

We were unusually brought up; there was no gender differentiation. I was never thought of as any less than my brother.
Maya Lin

Thought, Brother, Less

Sometimes it's not even a role that's specifically written for a woman. It could be a role written for a white man or Asian man, or Latino. If it's something that I feel I could do well, I go after it. Especially if it's nothing that has to be gender or race specific, I'm all over it.
Gabrielle Union

Woman, Nothing, After

I appreciate the sentiment that I am a popular woman in computer gaming circles; but I prefer being thought of as a computer game designer rather than a woman computer game designer. I don't put myself into gender mode when designing a game.
Roberta Williams

Woman, Game, Thought

The Labour party has done more than any other to address gender inequalities, through legislation and other means, and to increase women's representation in politics, which has led to recent increases in the number of female politicians.
Lucy Powell

Politics, Women, Done

What I do know is that traditional gender roles are very real and flipping the norm is difficult for even the strongest, funniest, smartest men.
Patti Stanger

Men, Real, Difficult

Love is pure and true; love knows no gender.
Tori Spelling

Love, True, Knows

I do think that same gender partners should be able to be married. Why not? If you share a life together than who in the world should have anything to say about it?
Eartha Kitt

Life, Together, Why

I'll say this, and this has nothing to do with gender or sexuality: You do not want to get licked in the face repeatedly by another human being. You just don't. It's not pleasant.
Josh Radnor

Nothing, Human, Another

I mean, I absolutely call myself a feminist. And by that, I mean a woman who believes that your opportunities should not be constrained by your gender, that women should be entitled to the same opportunities as men.
Ayelet Waldman

Women, Men, Woman

There's a gender in your brain and a gender in your body. For 99 percent of people, those things are in alignment. For transgender people, they're mismatched. That's all it is. It's not complicated, it's not a neurosis. It's a mix-up. It's a birth defect, like a cleft palate.
Chaz Bono

Brain, Body, Percent

Every American deserves to live in freedom, to have his or her privacy respected and a chance to go as far as their ability and effort will take them - regardless of race, gender, ethnicity or economic circumstances.
Christopher Dodd

Freedom, Live, American

I don't see gender as the most significant fact of human existence.
Jim Harrison

Human, Fact, Existence

I have no problem with it. I don't look on homosexuality as an aberration. It's just they way they're born, and how could any relationship between two people in a committed relationship be wrong, regardless of gender?
Andrea Thompson

Two, Problem, Wrong

I am not sure gender ever won't be an issue in comedy, because I think that women do have different priorities in some respects.
Jenny Eclair

Women, Different, Comedy

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

Love, Character, Gay

So the tough questions that have been asked of Sarah Palin thus far just have been about the fact that she doesn't know anything and isn't ready to be vice president. That's fair game and it has nothing to do with her gender.
Debbie Wasserman Schultz

Nothing, Game, Tough

Even though I don't agree with either Sarah Palin or Michele Bachmann on virtually anything, I do think the unique scrutiny - because of their gender and highlighting the potential conflict between them is a product of the media's desire for juicy storylines. I think it's inappropriate.
Debbie Wasserman Schultz

Between, Desire, Unique

If you fall in love with someone gay and you're the opposite gender, it's not going to work.
Rosie O'Donnell

Love, Work, Gay

When the Nobel award came my way, it also gave me an opportunity to do something immediate and practical about my old obsessions, including literacy, basic health care and gender equity, aimed specifically at India and Bangladesh.
Amartya Sen

Health, Care, Old

Do not ghettoize society by putting people into legal categories of gender, race, ethnicity, language, or other such characteristics.
Preston Manning

Society, Legal, Language

I didn't want to be discriminated against because of my gender and status. I promised myself I was never going to be treated as a second-class citizen.
Bianca Jagger

Against, Status, Citizen

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