Top 595 Gender Quotes

The fact is, ‘Billy Elliot’ is an incredible show, for any age and any gender. ‘Degrassi’ fans would absolutely fall in love with ‘Billy Elliot.’

The word ‘demand’ is a tricky word when used by our gender. When used by men, it’s part of their vernacular.

Gender is between your ears and not between your legs.

I think our society has sort of built this gender binary, and the way we’ve said it exists does not really exist in nature.

There’s this ridiculous idea that I’m a gender traitor because I’m not a feminist. I’m supposed to be part of a sisterhood: you’re automatically supposed to support all women just because you have the same genitals as them, which doesn’t make sense.

People who cling rigidly to gender binaries are more than welcome to. But for a lot of young people, we’re seeing that our gender roles don’t have to be dictated by a set of rules made by society. We can do whatever feels natural to us.

Gender equality is more than a goal in itself. It is a precondition for meeting the challenge of reducing poverty, promoting sustainable development and building good governance.

I had always been a really peculiar child. My mom would tell you I grew up roughing it with the boys and playing with action figures and toy cars and stuff, but I also had an Easy Bake Oven… I find it amazing that in a really weird way, people are mad that they can’t figure out my gender.

Gender equality has long been at the forefront of my mind, and I think the Me Too movement has elevated many men’s consciousness, my own included, about how to be better allies.

Negative gender stereotypes related to girls’ education in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics begin as early as primary school and have the devastating effect of making them doubt their own potential.

Gender equality has a transformative effect that is essential to fully functioning communities, societies, and economies.

At the end of the day, both men and women who become CEOs have showed tenacity and hard work to succeed in their careers. It takes not just skills but also extreme dedication and commitment. And regardless of gender, CEOs are measured by the same criteria – the growth and success of the business.

I was raised looking at women who were strong, and they weren’t really into playing race cards or playing gender cards. I didn’t grow up around women who were like, ‘Well, let the boys do that, and let the girls do that.’ I didn’t really see that in my house.

For my entire life, I’ve wrestled with my gender identity.

On one hand, I think it’s very important to talk about race and talk about gender, because if it’s not talked about, then we won’t progress. What I have a problem with is when it becomes another form of tokenization, of shrinking me into a symbol instead of a multilayered, female Asian artist.

My experience with ‘Transparent’ has completely spoiled me because it was the safest, most transpositive set ever. I didn’t have to worry about all the usual things – like when people have a vision of your transness that you’re not comfortable with. When they don’t know the correct gender pronouns by which to refer to you.

I don’t think gender is aesthetically defining for me.

I do think that same gender partners should be able to be married. Why not? If you share a life together than who in the world should have anything to say about it?

I prefer to be gender fluid or non-gendered and I dress in drag almost every day of my life even if I’m not in my full Jinkx Monsoon persona – I’m the kind of person who does not dress like my assigned gender and I wear makeup every day and sometimes wear wigs as a boy.

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

This idea that we should be best friends with our partner of the opposite gender leads toward tremendous frustration. Did you ever notice that while men often refer to their wives as best friends, women usually refer to another woman in that way?

The more women sit down and write something in a woman’s voice for a woman, they more you’ll see women in comedy because gender doesn’t define sense of humor. Imagination and intelligence and perspective do.

If a woman is successful, then she’s deemed to be the exception that proves the rule. If a woman fails, well, we’re all failures. That kind of underlying approach to our gender doesn’t seem to me to have changed an iota.

We must make sure #MeToo breaks the race, class, gender, and faith lines that make it so hard for marginalized people to be heard.

It gets frustrating when my male counterparts are questioned about their game or performance, whereas I am fielding questions on gender stereotypes and my ability to stay committed to the game on account of my gender.

We pledge ourselves to liberate all our people from the continuing bondage of poverty, deprivation, suffering, gender and other discrimination.

Historians who write about families are usually feminists who think in terms of gender relations.

When I do makeup, it’s performative. I don’t really wear makeup, but I use it as a tool to talk about gender and sexuality.

Sexual orientation and gender identity are not a choice, and anyone who knows me and my work over the years knows that I am a firm believer and supporter in the rights of LGBT Americans.

I think I’m a humanist. I believe all humans should have equal rights to live, express, flourish, love and dissent, irrespective of their gender, caste, class, socio-economic strata, disabilities, political stance, religion or faith.

We must focus on people as people, regardless of race, creed, color or gender.

I’m pretty sure Magic Mike’ is the best funded gender studies thesis ever so I’m going to have to see that.

True equality means holding everyone accountable in the same way, regardless of race, gender, faith, ethnicity – or political ideology.

Some people’s gender identity conforms to the sex they were assigned at birth, and some people’s identity doesn’t. That realization was certainly very freeing for me – and could be very freeing for other people.

If ever there was a character that was never defined by gender, it’s the Doctor. The Doctor is gender fluid in that sense.

Thanks to advancements in gender equality, you now have salty women like me who not only follow politics but also share their opinions on the daily.

In New Zealand, men and women would not take a party seriously if it did not have a good gender – and increasingly racial – mix. It’s not about being politically correct; it’s just who we are.

Talent has no gender. People are hiring young male directors right out of film school, off of a student film or off of a film at Sundance for millions of dollars. You can do the same with a female. It’s not a risk about the work if you respect the film that they made.

The soul has no gender.

College was a wonderful time to really explore my interests. I ended up writing my senior thesis about gender inequality in the developing world.

We like to imagine that women would do a better job of ruling the world – and I’m one of those optimists – but women aren’t a superior kind of life form just because of our gender. We’re awesome but not perfect. We’re human. Just like men.

I love when an outfit embodies the fluidity of my gender – it makes me feel the most confident and grounded, especially when attending fashion shows, which can be extremely overwhelming.

I didn’t want my gender to determine whether or not I could cover breaking news.

Dance music has no gender, class or creeds.

We need to start identifying the triggers that aggravate mental health issues in our society – bullying, social media negativity and anxiety, gender based violence, substance abuse, stigma around issues such as maternal issues, etc., and we need to speak up about these more and get to the source of the problems.

‘Thelma and Louise’ was a pretty important film for me and still is. It’s a social film about many things – gender, freedom – and it puts someone like me into the place of these protagonists. Watching that movie, you are living through the eyes of these women.

My sexuality’s very fluid, and my gender is very fluid.

The one thing that unites all human beings, regardless of age, gender, religion or ethnic background, is that we all believe we are above-average drivers.

I am much more open about categories of gender, and my feminism has been about women’s safety from violence, increased literacy, decreased poverty and more equality.

I was a weird but definite kid, and there were essentially no gender roles for me to fit into.

I love performing and entertaining, but what I want to really share is a stronger voice to the people and empower women to show that women and girls can do anything. Don’t ever let your gender stop you from chasing dreams.

So much of the destruction on Earth has been wrought by men. Women are the ones who give life and try to pick up the pieces… What a great gender they are.

Few professors would dare to publish research or teach a course debunking the claims made in various ethnic, gender, or other ‘studies’ courses.

Our equality bill is specifically designed to protect religion and belief on exactly the same terms as race or gender or sexuality.