Gender Issues Quotes

• It doesn't happen often, it's what you dream and hope for. We are happy, but we want to make sure these changes have teeth. What we want to get across most is that this is a real opportunity for the military. They can step up and be a leader on misogyny and gender issues.

  Amy Ziering

  Dream, Military, Real

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• When I was a kid, I wanted to be a boy. I really had gender issues. I really thought I was supposed to be a boy. I used to sneak into my dad's room and put on a suit, drink a cocktail, and pretend to smoke a cigarette.

  Jane Lynch

  Dad, Kids, Boys

  Interview with Noel Murray, tv.avclub.com. May 19, 2009.

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• A lot of my effort is to get people to talk about gender in a new way and to see that sexism and gender issues are so ingrained in us.

  Jennifer Fox

  Issues, People, Effort

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I think the Resurrection continues to be a pivotal issue, a pivotal question for people. I think a lot of other issues have been raised in interim years, about the nature of truth, of course gender issues, issues involving social matters like abortion and euthanasia and so forth, those swirl about and change from time to time, but I think the fundamental question of whether or not Christianity is true ultimately goes back to the Resurrection.

  Lee Strobel

  Thinking, Years, Issues

  Source: www.patheos.com

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• I think people will have great conversations about religions, women's sexuality, gender issues and gay issues.

  Pam Grier

  Gay, Thinking, Issues

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• I try not to focus on the gender issue too much but I think you have to acknowledge it in order for it to go away.

  Emily Haines

  Thinking, Issues, Order

  Source: www.popmatters.com

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• I think it's important for us to recognize that although historically black communities have been very progressive with respect to issues of race and with respect to struggles for racial equality, that does not necessarily translate into progressive positions on gender issues, progressive positions on issues of sexuality and in the latter 1990s we have to recognize the intersectionality, the interconnectedness of all of these institutions and attitudes.

  Angela Davis

  Attitude, Struggle, Thinking

  Frontline Interview, www.pbs.org. 1997.

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• The most important thing is to have a more open and honest dialogue about gender issues.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Issues, Important, Honest

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• I'm more interested in a feminism that ends discrimination for all people. It's not just about a woman becoming the CEO of a company or something. It's connected to racism and classism and gender issues that go beyond the binary.

  Kathleen Hanna

  Issues, Racism, People

  "Kathleen Hanna on Bikini Kill, growing up, and being a feminist icon". Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. November 20, 2012.

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• There is a clear difference between sexist parody and parody of sexism. Sexist parody encourages the players to mock and trivialize gender issues while parody of sexism disrupts the status quo and undermines regressive gender conventions.

  Anita Sarkeesian

  Player, Differences, Issues

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• 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

  Issues, People, Political

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• Growing up in a Jewish matriarchal world inside the patriarchal paradise of Salt Lake City, Utah, gave me increased perspective on gender issues, as it also did my gay brother and my lesbian sister. Our younger sister is the perfect Jewish-American wife and mother, and is fiercely proud of that fact.

  Roseanne Barr

  Mother, Brother, Growing Up

  Roseanne Barr (2012). “Roseannearchy: Dispatches from the Nut Farm”, p.86, Simon and Schuster

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