Gender Quotes - Page 25

• As a kid, you get to the stage where you realise the gender barriers that exist in society and what you're supposed to do and not supposed to do.

  Andrej Pejic

  Kids, Stage, Barriers

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• I guess professionally I've left my gender open to artistic interpretation.

  Andrej Pejic

  Artistic, Interpretation, Left

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• I have an immigrant story. Most people come here for economic reasons, or religious reasons, or racial reasons, or gender reasons, or one of those things. I had a good job in Paris, but America was, and still is, the golden fleece. And I've done very well!

  Jacques Pepin

  Religious, Jobs, Paris

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• I have a big passion about civil rights for everyone - whoever is being downtrodden at the moment, it doesn't matter: racial discrimination or sexual orientation or gender. Whatever it is, I'm there. I think I was a born civil rights activist. I can't stand the smashing of a community. It's not fair and it's not right.

  Pauley Perrette

  Passion, Thinking, Rights

  "Pauley Perrette: from NCIS to the Daily Planet". Interview with Robert Greenberger, www.comicmix.com. June 8, 2012.

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• As a partner in a firm full of women who work outside of the home as well as stay at home mothers, all with plenty of children, gender equality is not a talking point for me. It is an issue I live every day.

  Hilary Rosen

  Mother, Children, Home

  "Hilary Rosen Apologizes To Ann Romney, Calls For End To ‘Faux War’ Against Moms" by Jennifer Bendery, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 12, 2012.

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• I'll say this, and this has nothing to do with gender or sexuality: You do not want to get licked in the face repeatedly by another human being. You just don't. It's not pleasant.

  Josh Radnor

  Want, Faces, Sexuality

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

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• I have been studying women’s political behavior since the early 1970s and first identified the gender gap in 1980 with the help of legendary pollster Louis Harris.

  Eleanor Smeal

  Gender Gap, Political, Gaps

  "The Gender Gap Rules 2012 Election" by Eleanor Smeal, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 1, 2012.

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• Hedi was and is still misspelled 'Heidi' and my perception of genders ended up slightly out of focus from an early age.

  Hedi Slimane

  Focus, Perception, Age

  "Hedi Slimane: putting the flounce into fashion" by Viv Groskop, www.theguardian.com. October 6, 2012.

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• There's still a massive inequality between the genders. If you look at the trajectory of a male actor's career, there's no hesitation or hiatus. But women after the age of 35 to 40 are rarely placed in the centre of the story.

  Juliet Stevenson

  Careers, Age, Hiatus

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• As I started to pursue the subject more deeply I realized that walking was this wonderful meandering path through everything I was already interested in - gender politics, public space and urban life, demonstrations and parades and marches. The relationship between walking and thinking and between the mind and the body.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Thinking, Space, Mind

  "Thinking on Her Feet / Author Rebecca Solnit wrote a book about walking -- while on the move" by Sam Whiting, www.sfgate.com. May 02, 2000.

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• Sexuality and gender don't change anyone's performance on the court.

  Sheryl Swoopes

  Sexuality, Court, Don't Change

  "WNBA Star Sheryl Swoopes: I'm Gay". www.foxnews.com. October 26, 2005.

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• I have no problem with it. I don't look on homosexuality as an aberration. It's just they way they're born, and how could any relationship between two people in a committed relationship be wrong, regardless of gender?

  Andrea Thompson

  Two, People, Looks

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• There are many different rivers that lead into despair: there's poverty; there's political repression; there's gender apartheid - there's a sense of culture loss; there's religious fanaticism.

  Lawrence Wright

  Religious, Loss, Rivers

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• When I hear Obama speak he just seems really sincere and he just seems like somebody who actually has his heart and his motivation in the right place. Forget about color or race or gender or whatever, he's got his heart in the right place.

  Adam Yauch

  Motivation, Heart, Color

  "An Interview with Adam Yauch of the Beastie Boys". Interview with David Flumenbaum, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 3, 2008.

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• We need to celebrate stories by women, for women, as just one more way to redress gender injustice.

  Shami Chakrabarti

  Needs, Stories, Way

  "Shami Chakrabarti reveals Baileys women's prize for fiction longlist" by Alison Flood, www.theguardian.com. March 9, 2015.

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• I don’t love just men. I love people. It’s not about a gender. It’s just about the spirit that exudes from that other person you’re with.

  Kesha

  Men, People, Spirit

  "Ke$ha: More Outspoken Than Ever". Seventeen Interview, www.seventeen.com. April 23, 2013.

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• Gender is an identity tenuously constituted in time, instituted in an exterior space through a stylized repetition of acts.

  Judith Butler

  Space, Identity, Repetition

  Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity pt. 3, ch. 4 (1990)

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• Creative individuals are more likely to have not only the strengths of their own gender but those of the other one, too.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Creative, Individual

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (1996). “Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention”, Harpercollins

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• I don’t want to make an incremental change in some technology in my life. I want to create a whole new technology, and one that is aimed at helping humanity at all levels regardless of geography or ethnicity or age or gender.

  Elizabeth Holmes

  Technology, Ethnicity, Humanity

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• I don't think about the gender thing very much. But when I speak at schools, I've had female students say to me afterwards, "I never envisioned myself being a director, since I've never seen women do it." But after seeing me, they can picture themselves directing, so maybe we'll see more female directors.

  Jennifer Yuh Nelson

  School, Thinking, Directors

  "Angelina Jolie and Jennifer Yuh Nelson: Newest Members of a Very Small Club". Interview with Pamela McClintock, www.hollywoodreporter.com. December 8, 2011.

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• There aren't a lot of female story artists, and it's baffling to me. There are a lot of kids in school that are female and I wonder, 'Where did they all go?' People have brought it up, asking me, 'What did you do?' I don't really know. I puttered along, did my thing and gender has really never been an issue.

  Jennifer Yuh Nelson

  School, Kids, Artist

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• I think there are multiple studies now to demonstrate that diversity, a better balance between genders, but also between different fields as well, is actually conducive to better growth, better bottom line, better results.

  Christine Lagarde

  Thinking, Diversity, Growth

  "IMF chief Christine Lagarde on removing hurdles from a strong global economy". "PBS NewsHour" with Judy Woodruff, www.pbs.org. April 2, 2014.

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• In America, women are powerful and strong, determined. If they want to be an object, they choose to be in control.

  Jean Paul Gaultier

  Strong, Powerful, America

  "Fashion Spotlight: Jean Paul Gaultier" by Anne Slowey, www.elle.com. January 21, 2010.

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• The great thing about American women is their energy and the way they love to dress.

  Jean Paul Gaultier

  Energy, Dresses, Way

  "Fashion Spotlight: Jean Paul Gaultier" by Anne Slowey, www.elle.com. January 21, 2010.

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• What is masculine and what is feminine, anyway?

  Jean Paul Gaultier

  Feminine, Masculine

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