Gender Quotes - Page 5

• 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, Drawing

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• The men resent a woman getting any honour in what they consider is essentially their field. Men painters mostly despise women painters. So I have decided to stop squirming, to throw any honour in with Canada and women.

  Emily Carr

  Men, Canada, Fields

  Emily Carr (2009). “Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr”, p.383, D & M Publishers

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• Men were only made into 'men' with great difficulty even in primitive society: the male is not naturally 'a man' any more than the woman. He has to be propped up into that position with some ingenuity, and is always likely to collapse.

  Wyndham Lewis

  Men, Males, Made

  Wyndham Lewis (1989). “The Essential Wyndham Lewis: An Introduction to His Work”, Andre Deutsch Limited

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• There's no question that many more women artists are showing worldwide now than they were when I was a young woman, and that's really great.

  Judy Chicago

  Artist, Young, Really Great

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• I approach writing female characters the same why I approach writing male characters. I never think I'm writing about women, I think I'm writing about one woman, one person. And I try to imagine what she is like, and endow her with a lot of my own thoughts and history.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Writing, Character, Thinking

  "Jeffery Eugenides Discusses New Book: ‘The Marriage Plot’". Interview With Madeleine Crum, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 12, 2011.

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• Women are all we know of paradise on this earth.

  Albert Camus

  Earth, Paradise, Knows

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• I do think better of womankind than to suppose they care whether Mister John Keats five feet high likes them or not.

  John Keats

  Caring, Thinking, Feet

  Letter to Benjamin Bailey, 18 July 1818, in H. E. Rollins (ed.) 'The Letters of John Keats' (1958) vol. 1, p. 342

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• The freedom of women was achieved by two things: One, the Pill. Two... by labour-saving devices like the washing machine. By science, not feminism.

  Doris Lessing

  Two, Feminism, Pills

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• Women can never forgive me; they hate me, they feel that I am disarming them. I show them without their coquetry.

  Edgar Degas

  Hate, Forgive Me, Forgiving

  Edgar Degas, Rachel Barnes (1990). “Degas by Degas”, Alfred A. Knopf

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• I don't admit that a woman draws that well!

  Edgar Degas

  Wells, Draws

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• No man is a hero to his wife's psychiatrist.

  Eric Berne

  Hero, Men, Wife

  Eric Berne (2011). “Sex in Human Loving”, Tantor eBooks

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• Every woman has a story.

  Tyra Banks

  Stories

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• Women are supposed to be very calm generally: but women feel just as men feel; they need exercise for their faculties, and a field for their efforts as much as their brothers do; they suffer from too rigid a restraint, too absolute a stagnation, precisely as men would suffer; and it is narrow-minded in their more privileged fellow-creatures to say that they ought to confine themselves to making puddings and knitting stockings, to playing on the piano and embroidering bags.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Brother, Exercise, Men

  Charlotte Bronte (2013). “Jane Eyre”, p.142, Simon and Schuster

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• 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

  Movie, Inspiring, Sex

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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  It was we, the people; not we, the white male citizens; nor yet we, the male citizens; but we, the whole people, who formed the Union.... Men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less

  Susan B. Anthony

  Strong Women, Equality, White

  Motto of The Revolution (newspaper), 8 Jan. 1868

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• The man or the woman in whom resides greater virtue is the higher; neither the loftiness nor the lowliness of a person lies in the body according to the sex, but in the perfection of conduct and virtues.

  Christine de Pizan

  Inspirational, Sex, Women

  Christine De Pizan (1982). “The Book of the City of Ladies”, New York : Persea Books

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• We need more men with the guts, with the courage, with the strength, with the moral integrity to break our complicit silence and challenge each other and stand with women and not against them.

  Jackson Katz

  Change, Strength, Courage

  "Violence against women — it's a men's issue". TEDxFiDiWomen, www.ted.com. November 2012.

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• Girls are trained to say, ‘I wrote this, but it’s probably really stupid.’ Well, no, you wouldn’t write a novel if you thought it was really stupid. Men are much more comfortable going, ‘I wrote this book because I have a unique perspective that the world needs to hear.’ Girls are taught from the age of seven that if you get a compliment, you don’t go, ‘Thank you’, you go, ‘No, you’re insane.

  Lena Dunham

  Girl, Education, Attitude

  "Lena Dunham: 'People called me fat and hideous, and I lived" by Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. January 11, 2014.

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• I love women. They're the best thing ever created. If they want to be like men and come down to our level, that's fine.

  Mel Gibson

  Love, Funny, Women

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The woman who needs to be liberated most is the woman in every man, and the man who needs to be liberated most is the man in every woman

  Magnus Hirschfeld

  Women, Males, Physicians

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• I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.

  Rebecca West

  Girly, Time, Peace

  The Clarion, 14 Nov. 1913

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• 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, Class, Needs

  Dorothy Allison (2013). “Skin: Talking about Sex, Class, and Literature”, p.25, Open Road Media

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• 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

  Class, House, Citizens

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• The finest people marry the two sexes in their own person.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Sex, Two, People

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.4042, Delphi Classics

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• Ah, well, do I wish that we lived in a world where gender didn't figure so prominently? Of course. Do I even think about myself as a woman when I go to make art? Of course not.

  Judy Chicago

  Art, Thinking, Wish

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