Gender Quotes - Page 27

• There are many ways of supporting gender equality, from something as simple as paid sick leave and flexible work hours to attributing an economic value to all care-giving, and making that amount tax deductible.

  Gloria Steinem

  Simple, Economic Value, Giving

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• I’ve never treated anyone badly or in a discriminatory way based on their gender, race, religion or sexuality - period. I don’t blame some people for thinking that though, from the garbage they heard on those leaked tapes, which have been edited. You have to put it all in the proper context of being in an irrationally, heated discussion at the height of a breakdown, trying to get out of a really unhealthy relationship. It’s one terribly, awful moment in time, said to one person, in the span of one day and doesn’t represent what I truly believe or how I’ve treated people my entire life.

  Mel Gibson

  Believe, Thinking, Race

  "Exclusive: Mel Gibson Finally Talks". Interview with Allison Hope Weiner, deadline.com. April 21, 2011.

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• Most people view female directors as female only, that we only deal with women's issues and women characters. Although most of my films have dealt with women, I do have work that deals with other matters, and I'm always open to different stories regardless of gender.

  Shahad Ameen

  Character, Views, Issues

  "TIFF Women Directors: Meet Shahad Ameen – ‘Eye & Mermaid’". Interview with Kelcie Mattson, www.indiewire.com. September 13, 2014.

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• With pornography, if you don't get hard or wet, depending on your gender, it didn't work. With humour, if you don't laugh it didn't work. And with horror, if you don't get scared or haunted, depending on what it's trying to do, it didn't work. I'm fascinated by those three categories.

  Neil Gaiman

  Laughing, Trying, Three

  "Master Shaper". Interview with David Carroll, www.tabula-rasa.info. 1997.

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• This is going to sound cliché perhaps, but I would say to not second-guess yourself. It's difficult to talk about because gender does play into directing, of course, but it's very hard to talk about. Maybe the worst part is what you internalize.

  Julia Loktev

  Play, Sound, Doe

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• The gender prism is just descending upon us. For instance, when we're girls of nine or 10 we may be climbing trees and saying, "I know what I want. I know what I think." And then suddenly at 11 or 12, the gender role takes hold, and adults tell us, "How clever of you to know what time it is." It happens to boys, too and even sooner - between five and eight. Before that, boys cry and express uncertainty.

  Gloria Steinem

  Girl, Clever, Thinking

  Source: www.elle.com

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• But we have yet to make peace basic to our education. The most important subject in the world is hardly taught at all. In the spirit of this passage, the editor has taken the liberty of editing Mr. Cousins' language to make it more gender inclusive.

  Norman Cousins

  Peace, Cousin, Taken

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• I don't want to overstate the gender difference. But women are more sensitized to the way that larger issues affect their pocketbooks, like pay equality or cost of living changes.

  Elizabeth Warren

  Cost Of Living, Differences, Issues

  Interview with Ruth Conniff, progressive.org. December 27, 2009.

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• I think it's just different to get married for a woman than it is for a man. The amount of work to overcome certain gender roles in the partnership - just the expectation of housework, kid-work, whatever it is.

  Alison Pill

  Kids, Men, Thinking

  Interview with Sheila Heti, believermag.com. February 1, 2013.

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• Everybody brings their thing to their criticism. I bring this wealth of opinions and feeling and knowledge about race and gender and sexuality. I feel like I have it, I may as well express it, and if it's applicable to what I'm writing about and I'm not forcing it, I should try to use it, because it's interesting. It speaks to more than some people.

  Wesley Morris

  Writing, Race, People

  "Wesley Morris, boston globe film critic: 'they hate people who have opinions that run contrary to their fanaticism'". Interview with Naoki O'Bryan, jameson-zimmer.squarespace.com. April 15, 2013.

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• I bring the experiences of women. As a daughter, as a mother, as a wife, as a sister. That is who I am. Those experiences are part of me. And it is part of our American journey that we have moved through so much of what used to hold people back because of gender, because of race.

  Hillary Clinton

  Daughter, Mother, Journey

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• There is a plan and a purpose, a value to every life, no matter what its location, age, gender or disability.

  Sharron Angle

  Age, Purpose, Matter

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• The real debate about both the horrific inequality in the world and about the terrorism and frightening instability in the world requires analysis of the differences in upset-adaption or alienation-from-soul between individuals, races, genders, generations, countries, civilisations and cultures, but until the human condition could be explained and the upset state of the human condition compassionately understood and thus defended that debate could not take place.

  Jeremy Griffith

  Country, Real, Differences

  Jeremy Griffith (2016). “Freedom: The End of the Human Condition”, p.638, WTM Publishing and Communications

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• Woman cannot be free until man's mind is liberated from the megalomania! His self-exaltation is the mother of the gender inequalities. Till we eliminate his exacerbated narcissism, woman will remain unfree!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Mother, Men, Self

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• A pronoun, too, will aptly reflect the number of its antecedent: "they" does not refer to one person, no matter how many personalities she or he has, or how eager you are to skirt the gender frays.

  Karen Elizabeth Gordon

  Numbers, Personality, Doe

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• The examples of female success stories are important on the global scale, as they help to disseminate the idea of gender equality and to spread the roots for the actual implementation of equal rights for women and men and democratic values among different cultures, societies and traditions.

  Dalia Grybauskaite

  Men, Ideas, Roots

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I don't subscribe to that school of thought that leadership can be altogether defined by gender.

  Dalia Grybauskaite

  School, Defined

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• There are gender health differences, and we need to know what they are.

  Laura Bush

  Differences, Needs, Knows

  "The First Lady's Quiet Victory". Interview with Cindi Leive, www.glamour.com. January 3, 2008.

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• The scene at a certain time was definitely boys; those huge warehouses were kind of violent parties, even. I think people in your immediate community made a nightlife scene that actually did break down gender roles and were along different lines of identity that had to do with race and experience in the '90s, rather than gender.

  Le1f

  Party, Boys, Thinking

  "Le1f’s Riot Movement". Interview with Shayne Oliver, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 9, 2015.

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• Power relations between men and women must change profoundly, men must be partners in the pursuit of gender equality, in their decision-making roles, as heads of state, CEOs, religious and cultural leaders, and as partners and parents.

  Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka

  Change, Religious, Men

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• Our religious police has the most dangerous effect on society - the segregation of genders, putting the wrong ideas in the heads of men and women, producing psychological diseases that never existed in our country before, like fanatacism.

  Basmah bint Saud

  Country, Religious, Men

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• Genitive is a funny word because it means "from," but it also is the gender in European languages for objects: the masculine, feminine, and neuter. So if you have a genitive present, there's room for everybody to fit in. I just did a project in Vienna about rock, paper, scissor; you change the gender and it simply changes the whole thing. Rock is no longer a male. It doesn't function the same way.

  Lawrence Weiner

  Mean, Rocks, Paper

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I'd love for there to be a situation - a world in which that's just not even a question anymore. We are all filmmakers - different stripes, genders, sexual orientations, colors - and our work can be taken on its own terms. I'm really looking forward to that day.

  Lynn Shelton

  Taken, Color, Stripes

  "Sundance Interview with Lynn Shelton - Director of Touchy Feely". Interview with Melissa Silverstein, www.indiewire.com. February 5, 2013.

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• My experiences with gender bias are probably the norm. What I found was that expectations of women were simply lower, and this resulted in being overlooked for certain opportunities.

  Heather Bresch

  Opportunity, Gender Bias, Expectations

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• If you're here tonight to support me, you shouldn't be here. This is not about me. This is about something far more important. It transcends race, it transcends politics, it transcends gender. This is about the laws of God.

  Roy Moore

  Race, Law, Support

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