Gender Quotes - Page 15

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

  Jonathan Sacks

  Race, Age, Income

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• I'm not telling women to be like men. I'm telling us to evaluate what men and women do in the workforce and at home without the gender bias.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Home, Men, Gender Bias

  "Sheryl Sandberg: Gender equality won't happen unless men speak up". Interview with Soledad O'Brien, Tara Kelly, www.cnn.com. April 17, 2013.

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• I don't hold myself out as a role model. I don't believe that everyone should make the same choices; that everyone has to want to be a CEO, or everyone should want to be a work-at-home mother. I want everyone to be able to choose. But I want us to be able to choose unencumbered by gender choosing for us.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Mother, Believe, Home

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• I think there's more support today. I think there's better understanding today. And there's a better appreciation for the fact that if any community is going to prosper, if any community is going to be seen at its best, that the women in that community have to be viewed as equally as important as the men. And [women] have to be able to live outside of boundaries that are placed on them because of their gender. As well as their race or their religion.

  Anita Hill

  Appreciation, Communication, Men

  "Then & Now: Anita Hill". www.cnn.com. June 19, 2005.

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• No matter what Joe Hoffman and Wade Preston say, it's not gender that makes a family; it's love. You don't need a mother and a father; you don't necessarily even need two parents. You just need someone who's got your back.

  Jodi Picoult

  Mother, Father, Love You

  Jodi Picoult (2014). “Sing You Home: A Novel”, p.360, Simon and Schuster

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• How is love between two people a sin? Love isn't about gender; it's about two souls uniting.

  Alex Sanchez

  Two, People, Soul

  Alex Sanchez (2007). “The God Box”, p.68, Simon and Schuster

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• I am not an angel," I asserted; "and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Integrity, Angel, Dies

  Charlotte Bronte (2013). “Jane Eyre”, p.327, Simon and Schuster

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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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• True peace must be anchored in justice and an unwavering commitment to universal rights for all humans, regardless of ethnicity, religion, gender, national origin or any other identity attribute.

  Desmond Tutu

  Commitment, Rights, Ethnicity

  "Divesting From Injustice" by Desmond Tutu, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 13, 2010.

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• Women will not simply be mainstreamed into the polluted stream. Women are changing the stream, making it clean and green and safe for all - every gender, race, creed, sexual orientation, age, and ability.

  Bella Abzug

  Women, Race, Age

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• Adult women, all of us, have to come to grips with how we have been affected by gender norms, and how we have been silenced. We have to help our daughters. Understanding it within ourselves and helping our young girls stand up for themselves is one way.

  Jane Fonda

  Girl, Daughter, Women

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• People who don't have gender dysphoria aren't going to catch it by watching me dance on television.

  Chaz Bono

  Inspirational, Dance, People

  "Chaz: You won't get gender dysphoria watching me on 'DWTS'" by Anna Chan, www.today.com. September 6, 2011.

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• He leaned forward and opened his door, politely standing aside to let me by before following me in. There are some advantages to dating a guy from another era, I thought. Though I am a big believer in gender equality, chivalry scores high in my book.

  Amy Plum

  Book, Men, Doors

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• Men have influenced my activism and feminism both positively and negatively. As most gender differences are social, not genetic, we still need to change what we do and what we expect of each other... The potential exists for societies where men and women do not have to conform to unwanted stereotypes.

  Eva Cox

  Women, Differences, Feminism

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• We live in a world where there are a hell of a lot of new inputs that need to be factored in to your business. It used to be just about your employees and your customers. Now there are all the issues about global warming, about sustainability, about ethics and now about gender and the distribution of wealth.

  Stuart Rose

  Issues, Needs, World

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• All human beings bear God's image and must be respected for what each person is. Therefore, no external description of one's being, whether based on race, ethnicity, gender or sexual orientation, can properly be used as the basis for either rejection or discrimination.

  John Shelby Spong

  Respect, Race, Ethnicity

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• It is long past time to eliminate bigotry in the workplace and to ensure equal opportunity for all Americans. It is time to make clear that lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender Americans are first class citizens. They are full and welcome members of our American family and they deserve the same civil rights protections as all other Americans. It is time for us to prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity. Such discrimination is wrong and should not be tolerated.

  Tom Harkin

  Gay, Bisexual, Past

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• We have a lot more work to do in our common struggle against bigotry and discrimination. I say "common struggle" because I believe very strongly that all forms of bigotry and discrimination are equally wrong and should be opposed by right-thinking Americans everywhere. Freedom from discrimination based on sexual orientation is surely a fundamental human right in any great democracy, as much as freedom from racial, religious, gender, or ethnic discrimination.

  Coretta Scott King

  Religious, Believe, Struggle

  Coretta Scott King's remarks at Opening Plenary Session of the 13th annual "Creating Change" conference of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force in Atlanta, Georgia, November 9, 2000.

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• When today's young woman says she isn't a feminist what she means is she isn't a lesbian and she doesn't hate men, she likes to wear make-up and she enjoys a laugh. In which she is no different from many an early feminist.

  Fay Weldon

  Hate, Mean, Men

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• Now, my oral illustration be like clitoral stimulation
  to the female gender
  Ain't nothin' better
  Let me know when it's wet enough to enter

  Andre Benjamin

  Illustration, Hip Hop, Female

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• So when I was about 13 or 14, I realized I was attracted to women and then made the assumption that I was a lesbian, and didn't realize that that wasn't the case. It was the fact that I was a man and a heterosexual man. The issue wasn't my sexual orientation, but rather my gender identity.

  Chaz Bono

  Men, Issues, Identity

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• ...gender relationships, which are tough for people to deal with, are key to whether a society orients to domination or partnership in all its relations.

  Riane Eisler

  Women, Keys, People

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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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