Gender Quotes

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  We've begun to raise daughters more like sons... but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.

  Gloria Steinem

  Mother Daughter, Courage, Honesty

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

  Patti Smith

  Sex, Drag, Concerned

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• 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

  Equality, Goal, Challenges

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A woman's intuition has often proved truer than a man's arrogant assumption of knowledge.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Men, Intuition, Arrogant

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.139, Courier Corporation

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• I think were struggling with trying to redefine various positions at this point in history. To allow freedom for women, freedom for men, freedom from those sharply defined gender roles.

  Fred Ward

  Women, Struggle, Thinking

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  I do not wish women to have power over men; but over themselves.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Life, Strong Women, Independent

  "The original suffragette: the extraordinary Mary Wollstonecraft" by Bee Rowlatt, www.theguardian.com. October 5, 2015.

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• I can't change my gender, and I refuse to stop making movies.

  Kathryn Bigelow

  Directors, Directing Movies, Filmmaker

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• What is being called the UN 'gender architecture' is more like a shack. Women need a bigger global house if equality is ever to become a reality.

  Charlotte Bunch

  Equality, Reality, House

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• Never expect women to be sincere, so long as they are educated to think that their first aim in life is to please.

  Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

  Women, Thinking, Long

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• 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

  Men, Ideas, Insecurity

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• Do I even think about myself as a woman when I go to make art? Of course not.

  Judy Chicago

  Art, Thinking, Courses

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• The power I exert on the court depends on the power of the power of my arguments, not my gender

  Sandra Day O'Connor

  Argument, Court, Depends

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

  Jim Harrison

  Literature, Facts, Significant

  Interview with Robert Birnbaum, themorningnews.org. June 7, 2004.

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• Similarly, gender-equality, supremacy of law, political participation, civil society, and transparency are among the indispensable elements that are the imperatives of democratization.

  Recep Tayyip Erdogan

  Law, Political, Elements

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• I love to be individual, to step beyond gender.

  Annie Lennox

  Steps, Individual

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Whatever women do, they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult.

  Charlotte Whitton

  Funny, Hilarious, Strong Women

  Canada Month, June 1963. A later satirical version of this saying added to the end "Luckily, this is not difficult" (Paul Dickson, The Official Rules [1978]). See Eleanor Roosevelt 2

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• With the adoption of the Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women, the international community sent out a clear message that gender based violence will not be tolerated.

  Jenny Shipley

  Adoption, Community, Messages

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

  James Hillman

  Race, Class, Prejudice

  "On Soul, Character and Calling: A Conversation with James Hillman". Interview with Scott London, www.scottlondon.com. March 1998.

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• I do think the attempt to raise consciousness has succeeded. People are very aware of gender concerns now

  Clifford Geertz

  Thinking, People, Consciousness

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

  Clifford Geertz

  Intellectual, Literature, Fields

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• There isn't a theologian in the world who can argue with me on this. God has no gender. If that's the case, then everything needs to be rewritten now, right now.

  Susan Powter

  Needs, World, Arguing

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• We have a history of gender and racial bias on our court that continues to undermine the system. Excluding individuals based on race is antagonistic to the pursuit of justice.

  Anita Hill

  Race, Justice, Prejudice

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• 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

  Games, Circles, Appreciate

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• There are not as many women who support the national defense budget now as men. I really think there is a gender gap in the support for the large expenditures that are necessary to modernize the force.

  Theodore Stevens

  Men, Thinking, Gender Gap

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• 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

  Wise, Wisdom, Believe

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