Gender Quotes - Page 14

• We live in a society which is so saturated with sexuality that it perhaps is more troublesome now, because of that fact, for a person to look beyond their gender orientation to other aspects of who they are.

  Lance B. Wickman

  Looks, Facts, Sexuality

  Source: www.mormonnewsroom.org

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• Marriage is a unified institution. Marriage means a committed, legally sanctioned relationship between a man and a woman. That's what it means. That's what it means in the revelations. That's what it means in the secular law. You cannot have that marriage coexisting institutionally with something else called same-gender marriage. It simply is a definitional impossibility.

  Lance B. Wickman

  Mean, Men, Law

  Source: www.mormonnewsroom.org

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• It's not the Church that has made the issue of marriage a matter of federal law. Those who are vigorously advocating for something called same-gender marriage have essentially put that potato on the fork. They're the ones who have created a situation whereby the law of the land, one way or the other, is going to address this issue of marriage. This is not a situation where the Church has elected to take the matter into the legal arena or into the political arena. It's already there.

  Lance B. Wickman

  Land, Issues, Law

  Source: www.mormonnewsroom.org

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• If I'm one that's afflicted with same-gender attraction, I should strive to see myself in a much broader context... seeing myself as a child of God with whatever my talents may be, whether intellect, or music, or athletics, or somebody that has a compassion to help people, to see myself in a larger setting and thus to see my life in that setting.

  Lance B. Wickman

  Children, Compassion, People

  Source: www.mormonnewsroom.org

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• The more a person can look beyond gender orientation, the happier and more fulfilling life is likely to be.

  Lance B. Wickman

  Life Is Like, Looks, Fulfilling

  Source: www.mormonnewsroom.org

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• I've always wanted to explore characters of all races, all genders, all ages. It just seems to me to be a natural way to approach any kind of storytelling.

  Alan Moore

  Character, Race, Age

  "Boy from the boroughs". Interview with Pádraig Ó Méalóid, www.3ammagazine.com. March 17, 2011.

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• Ultimately, the wisest course for anybody who's afflicted with same-gender attraction is to strive to extend one's horizon beyond just one's sexual orientation, one's gender orientation, and to try to see the whole person.

  Lance B. Wickman

  Trying, Horizon, Strive

  Source: www.mormonnewsroom.org

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• We urge persons with same-gender attractions to control those and to refrain from acting upon them, which is a sin, just as we urge persons with heterosexual attractions to refrain from acting upon them until they have the opportunity for a marriage recognized by God as well as by the law of the land. That is the way to happiness and eternal life.

  Dallin H. Oaks

  Opportunity, Law, Land

  Source: www.mormonnewsroom.org

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• My mother has been to Mecca to perform her hajj; my dad hasn't. I come from a very liberal family, so even the people who are outwardly religious tend to subscribe to gender equality, the importance of open-mindedness, all that stuff. My family is generally nonprescriptive.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Mother, Religious, Dad

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Men are enforced into a kind of silence about their gender; they're supposed to not think of it as a performance. That's the definition of manliness - that it's not a performance; it's being yourself, authentic. Whereas women have understood gender as performance. Men have not yet made that quantum leap, or rather they're making it in many ways, they're not thinking about it.

  Stephen Marche

  Being Yourself, Men, Thinking

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• One of the days we unpack finding out how your kids are wired, what kind of intelligence has God given them, how do they give and receive love, what the passions of their life, how does their birth order and their gender affect them because all of those things are part of the tapestry that God is weaving together to use each of our children for His glory.

  Stephen Kendrick

  Children, Passion, Kids

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• All of great leaders evidence four basic qualities that are central to their ability to lead: adaptive capacity, the ability to engage others through shared meaning, a distinctive voice, and unshakeable integrity. These four qualities mark all exemplary leaders, whatever their age, gender, ethnicity, or race.

  Warren G. Bennis

  Integrity, Ethnicity, Voice

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• I think gender inequality is a problem that goes back a long, long time. In human society, as a whole, women have tended to have a kind of inferior position - very often combined with playing up women as great role [models].

  Amartya Sen

  Thinking, Long, Role Models

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• To me, my version of feminism, it's co-extensive with human rights and democracy. It's just part of the same fight for everyone being free, and having autonomy and dignity. It's not pitting one gender against another, it's not saying anything is better, it's just clearing away injustice.

  Naomi Wolf

  Fighting, Rights, Democracy

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• I cannot imagine why a woman would ever call herself anything but a feminist. But a man calling himself a feminist, what does that mean? The answer is he wants to be taken as a good guy. Your choice is between saying you're a feminist and raising a flag at a "Take Back the Night" rally and being a men's rights activist, which is basically the only two ways men have of talking about gender right now, I mean that's just ridiculous. That's just two extremes that are totally useless.

  Stephen Marche

  Taken, Mean, Night

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• America cannot be America in the new century until it deals with these new questions of gender, including the trans issues, and the questions around faith and Islam.

  Van Jones

  America, Issues, Islam

  Source: pen.org

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• I conceived of myself in large part as a teacher. There wasn't a great understanding of gender discrimination. People knew that race discrimination was an odious thing, but there were many who thought that all the gender-based differentials in the law operated benignly in women's favor. So my objective was to take the Court step by step to the realization, in Justice Brennan's words, that the pedestal on which some thought women were standing all too often turned out to be a cage.

  Ruth Bader Ginsburg

  Teacher, Race, Law

  Source: newrepublic.com

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• As an artist, I never wanted to be fettered by gender nor recognized or defined as a female poet, musician or singer. They don't do that with men - nobody says Picasso, the male artist. Curators call me up and say, "We want your work to be in a show about women artists," and I'm like, why? For Christ's sake, do we have to attach a gender onto everything?

  Patti Smith

  Artist, Men, Musician

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• I think we all are born inside of our parents' narratives. We stay there for a good while. We are taught their narratives about everything: their marriage, the world, God, gender, identity, etcetera. Then, at some point, our own narrative develops too much integrity to live inside that story. We don't ever fully escape it, but we move into our own stories.

  Melissa Febos

  Integrity, Moving, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I feel like so much more than my gender and so much more than my relationship to my body and my relationship to men. And, but suddenly you're sort of asked to be an expert.

  Lena Dunham

  Men, Experts, Body

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• You write people as human beings first and then the gender specific stuff second.

  Irvine Welsh

  Writing, People, Stuff

  Interview With Veronica Bond, gapersblock.com. October 15, 2008.

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• ... that gender is a choice, or that gender is a role, or that gender is a construction that one puts on, as one puts on clothes in the morning, that there is a 'one' who is prior to this gender, a one who goes to the wardrobe of gender and decides with deliberation which gender it will be today.

  Judith Butler

  Morning, Clothes, Choices

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• I desire a person, not a gender.

  Matthew C. Ehrlich

  Gay, Desire, Lgbt

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• Feminism is a belief that although women and men are inherently of equal worth, most societies privilege men as a group. As a result, social movements are necessary to achieve political equality between women and men, with the understanding that gender always intersects with other social hierarchies.

  Estelle Freedman

  Men, Political, Understanding

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• We will ask two central questions throughout this course: 1. What difference does gender make? 2. For which women does it make a difference? Which women?

  Estelle Freedman

  Two, Differences, Feminism

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