Gender Quotes - Page 38

• It doesn't occur to so many people that if you don't have a clear heterosexual, gender confirming identity that there are parts of day-to-day life - like using a bathroom or getting your clothes - that just aren't going to be as easy.

  Lena Dunham

  Clothes, People, Identity

  "Lena Dunham talks Suited: Fashion is a new way into [the LGBTQ] conversation". Interview with Dana Getz, ew.com. June 20, 2016.

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• I used to oppose women's suffrage and I've come to support it because these women have convinced me that we need full gender equality for full democratic participation.

  Louis D. Brandeis

  Support, Needs, Women's Suffrage

  Source: www.slate.com

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• Think of how hard it would be to create a gender-based movement across racial lines as long as one group believes that it has to be strong while seeing the other group as passive and weak. We could also go into the stereotypes of the saucy, mercurial Latina and the docile, easily-dominated Asian woman.

  Melissa Harris-Perry

  Strong, Believe, Thinking

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• It's interesting, gender versus race. I think people say that to women more: 'Oh, you're my favorite female.' They wouldn't say 'favorite black comic.'

  Ilana Glazer

  Thinking, Race, Interesting

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I think anybody has, regardless of your gender, we all have equal value if you have value to bring and value to provide, you just have to be willing to use your voice.

  Stephanie McMahon

  Thinking, Voice, Use

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• I've never felt my gender was an obstacle. There have of course been moments in my career when it has slapped me in the face but the reason I felt it slapped me in the face was because it wasn't something that I had contemplated before.

  Stephanie McMahon

  Careers, Faces, Obstacles

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• Now my mom designs to resign so she runs for US senate, and now at 67 my mom just launched a new company called Women's Leadership Live, she is the cofounder and CEO, and it's all about empowering women to be successful in business however they define success. When you have a role model like that you really don't ever look at gender as an issue and it's about owning your place and taking charge of your role, regardless of what you look like.

  Stephanie McMahon

  Mom, Running, Successful

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• Gender or skin color does not of itself determine the nature of a person's thinking.

  Marianne Williamson

  Thinking, Skin Color, Skins

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• When you oppress people either by gender, by race, by sexual orientation, when you do that and the doors become ajar, they will fly open and they will come and they have.

  Billie Jean King

  Race, Doors, People

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• The news is not gender-neutral, but it's usually reported as though it's gender-neutral.

  Jane Fonda

  News

  "Jane Fonda, Fitness Guru, Reveals What Inspires Her". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 15, 2013.

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• We still have gaps that are rooted in gender inequality. Certainly we have discrimination against the LGBT community.

  Hillary Clinton

  Lgbt Community, Gaps, Discrimination

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• I think it's a feminine energy, not necessarily men versus women, but a nurturing, mothering, loving energy. I think definitely. But I think you need a balance of both. I think right now we're just so in the extremes and people are just conditioned and given these gender assignments very early on.

  Evan Rachel Wood

  Men, Thinking, People

  "Into The Forest: Ellen Page and Evan Rachel Wood Survive a Quiet Apocalypse". Interview With Don Kaye, www.denofgeek.com. July 28, 2016.

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• We have a man [Donald Trump] who judges people based on their performance regardless of your gender, race, your ethnic or religious background.

  Chris Christie

  Religious, Men, Race

  "Chris Christie: 'It is our obligation to stop Hillary Clinton now'". Republican convention speech, www.macleans.ca. July 19, 2016.

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• My father values talent. He recognizes real knowledge and skill when he finds it. He is color blind and gender neutral. He hires the best person for the job, period.

  Ivanka Trump

  Mother, Jobs, Father

  "Business empress, now super-surrogate: Can Ivanka Trump be dad’s deal-closer?" by Jennifer G. Hickey, www.foxnews.com. August 01, 2016.

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• Education is key. We have to keep girls in school and give them the same opportunities that boys have. They need access to vocational training and mentorship, as well. It's an issue of gender equality, which is fortunately a hot topic right now, but we need to keep at it and not rest on our laurels.

  Gillian Anderson

  Girl, School, Boys

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• I hear, more than ever, people actively searching for women to direct, actively wanting to finance women's films, which is not to say it is easy, but I think it's been a great instance of how journalism has put pressure on business to be more fair between genders.

  Natalie Portman

  Thinking, People, Pressure

  "Natalie Portman talks directing her first movie and why you'll never see her on social media". Interview with Jason Guerrasio, www.businessinsider.com. August 17, 2016.

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• I realized that in all the sectors of society where there's a huge gender disparity, the one place that can be fixed overnight is onscreen. You think about getting half of Congress, or the presidency ... It's going to take a while no matter how hard we work on it. But half of the board members and half of the CEOs can be women in the next movie somebody makes; it can be absolutely half.

  Geena Davis

  Thinking, Boards, Half

  Interview with Emma Watson, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 25, 2016.

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• I didn't realize that I wasn't moving in a gender-equal world - I had a sense of it, but I didn't start to really see evidence of it, I think, until I hit puberty. Media even before that age is already creating all these biases.

  Emma Watson

  Moving, Thinking, Media

  Interview with Geena Davis, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 25, 2016.

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• I think that why the research and the data are so important is because you become so used to seeing the world one way that you don't even notice anymore. [Gender inequality] has this invisibility.

  Emma Watson

  Thinking, Data, Important

  Interview with Geena Davis, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 25, 2016.

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• We come from the future, essentially, because we have all these ideas about gender equality, sexual freedom, and these are not shared by the working class, the peasantry among whom we work.

  Vijay Prashad

  Class, Ideas, Gender Equality

  "'Exiles From the Future': An Interview with Vijay Prashad". Interview with Andrew Stewart, www.counterpunch.org. August 17, 2016.

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• When a show communicates on such a vast level internationally, you know, and philosophizes about power, gender politics, and crimes against humanity, which Game of Thrones deals with all those things, then I'm just grateful that it reinstates my faith that art can be life applicable.

  Natalie Dormer

  Art, Grateful, Games

  Source: www.elle.com

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• There's been a sort of mini-revolution, an uprising, as was long overdue, about these subject matters: ethnicity and gender equality.

  Natalie Dormer

  Ethnicity, Uprising, Long

  Source: www.elle.com

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• A character on a page has to feel real, and for me the greatest fun is if you could gender-swap the role.

  Natalie Dormer

  Fun, Real, Character

  Source: www.elle.com

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• Race I've been studying since I knew there was a problem with race and that I was Black and something was wrong. Gender, is very new to me. All I can say is this is something that I'm going to take hold of and pray about it.

  Nate Parker

  Race, Black, Study

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• If I can use my platform to affect change in gender, as I can in race, then I think I can have an impact.

  Nate Parker

  Thinking, Impact, Race

  Source: www.ebony.com

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