“As Elders we have great respect for all religions and traditions as important forces that bind people together. Faith and tradition provide much of the foundation of our laws and social codes. But where religion and tradition are used to justify discrimination and especially when they are used to justify cruel and harmful practices such as female genital mutilation, infanticide and child marriage, then we believe that is unacceptable.” PeopleBelieveChildrenImportantTogetherLawUsedForceSocialPracticeFemaleTraditionFoundationDiscriminationCodeJustifyEldersGreat RespectMutilationInfanticide Author:Mary Robinson
“I can't imagine where I'd be without the opportunities provided to me in sports. Sports taught me that gender isn't an issue; in fact, when people talk about me being the first female governor, I'm a little absent from that discussion, because I've never thought of gender as an issue. In sports, you learn self-discipline, healthy competition, to be gracious in victory and defeat, and the importance of being part of a team and understanding what part you play on that team. You all work together to reach a goal, and I think all of those factors come into play in my role as governor.” PeopleThinkingFirstsLittlesI CanSelfPlayFactsTogetherOpportunitySportsUnderstandingGoalRolesIssuesImagineTeamTaughtVictoryDisciplineHealthyFemaleImportanceCompetitionDefeatGenderFactorsDiscussionWorking TogetherGovernorsSelf DisciplineAbsentGraciousVictory And DefeatHealthy Competition Author:Sarah Palin
“if networks of women are formed, they should be job related and task related rather than female-concerns related. Personal networks for sociability in the context of a work organization would tend to promote the image of women contained in the temperamental model - that companies must compensate for women's deficiencies and bring them together for support because they could not make it on their own. But job-related task forces serve the social-psychological functions while reinforcing a more positive image of women.” IfsShouldTogetherJobsForceSocialCompanySupportModelsConcernFemaleTasksOrganizationFunctionPsychologicalRelatedDeficiencySociabilityTask ForcesPositive Image Author:Rosabeth Moss Kanter
“Families and societies are small and large versions of one another. Both are made up of people who have to work together, whose destinies are tied up with one another. Each features the components of a relationship: leaders perform roles relative to the led, the young to the old, and male to female; and each is involved with the process of decision-making, use of authority, and the seeking of common goals.” PeopleMadeUseTogetherYoungProcessGoalDecisionCommonLeaderRolesDestinyInvolvedAuthorityFemaleMalesSeekingVersionsFeaturesWorking TogetherDecision MakingRelativeTiedComponentsTied UpCommon Goal Book:The new peoplemaking Source: The new peoplemaking
“The "female culture" has shifted more rapidly than the "male culture"; the image of the go-get 'em woman has yet to be fully matched by the image of the let's take-care-of-the-kids- together man. More important, over the last thirty years, men's underlying feelings about taking responsibility at home have changed much less than women's feelings have changed about forging some kind of identity at work.” MenYearsKindImportantFeelingsHomeCareKidsTogetherLastsCultureWomenResponsibilityIdentityChangedFemaleMalesTake CareThirtyEmsTaking ResponsibilityThirty YearsMatchedForging Author:Arlie Russell Hochschild
“Bonobos really violate a rule of nature where usually if you're bigger, you're going to be dominant. But here, females are actually smaller. But they're still not dominated by males because they work together.” IfsStillsTogetherFemaleBiggerMalesWorking TogetherDominantBonobos Author:Claudine Andre
“If God is Mother, then we need only gather together with people and adore her through rituals intended to satisfy the female soul, ritual involving dance, fire, water, air, earth, songs, music, flowers, and beauty.” PeopleIfsNeedsSoulEarthTogetherMotherSongWaterFireAirFlowerFemaleRitualAdoreInvolving Author:Paulo Coelho
“Scripture is vast, and people can pick and choose what they emphasize, and so for hundreds of years verses that said that you are to welcome the stranger, that with Christ there's neither Jew nor Greek, male nor female, we've broken down the dividing wall with the original church, where Christians were first called Christian was the church of Antioch in which for the first time you had Jews, Gentiles of all different ethnicities come together as one people. That's when they were called Christians.” PeopleYearsFirstsSaidDifferentChristianTogetherChristChurchBrokenWallPicksFirst TimeFemaleOriginalsMalesJewStrangerScriptureWelcomeGreekVersesEthnicityDividingBroken DownGentilesTogether As OneAntioch Author:Michael Emerson
“I was born in Las Vegas and my babysitter was a female Elvis Presley impersonator. My first memory is being in her arms and she was fully dressed up as Elvis. She was an avid thrift-shopper so I started going to thrift shops when I was very young. You could put something together for no money at all.” FirstsTogetherYoungBornMemoriesArmsFemaleShopsVegasLas VegasNo MoneyDressed UpThriftAvidBabysitterShoppersImpersonators Author:Jenny Lewis
“I'm not American, but I do have an opinion, and I think that right now, it is what it is, and I think the country needs to come together to say: What is the America we want to create right now? The same thing will happen on television now going forward if we do have a female president. It will be something that will be discussed.” IfsThinkingWantNeedsCountryHappensTogetherAmericaPresidentOpinionTelevisionRight NowFemaleIt Is What It IsFemale President Author:Priyanka Chopra
“I grew up in a household of women, they ran the show, they kept it all together. I credit my ability to write in female voices, as well as male, with having grown up with older sisters in a neighborhood largely populated by girls.” WritingWellsShowsTogetherGirlVoiceAbilityGrewGrew UpFemaleMalesCreditRanNeighborhoodHouseholdOlder SisterFemale Voice Author:Wally Lamb
“We can see, from California to New York, from Maine to Florida, Seattle to New Mexico - everywhere there are women's groups. Everywhere there are women who have gotten together to examine global warming, and women who have gotten together to prepare each other for single parenting - there are women who have come together to be supportive to those whose mates are in prison, male or female, partners are in prison. All sorts of gatherings of women. I mean, I'm just celebrating my 80th year on this planet, and I look back 50 years ago and there was nothing like that.” YearsLooksMeanTogetherGroupsNew YorkPlanetsFemaleYears AgoPrisonMalesPartnersCelebrateCaliforniaGlobal WarmingMatesMexicoFloridaSupportiveGatheringSeattleMaineSingle ParentNew Mexico Author:Maya Angelou
“Take a human body, a male and a female, it is obvious that certain parts are meant together. There is a purpose and a design for it and there is a result of that.” HumansBodyTogetherPurposeCertainResultsDesignFemaleMalesObviousHuman Body Author:Rick Warren
“We can learn a great deal from whales. It is the same lesson we can learn from our close genetic relatives, the bonobo apes of the Congo. Here mothers have a great deal of authority, there is very little violence (with no signs of sexual violence against females), and their society is held together by sharing and caring rather than by fear and force.” LittlesTogetherMotherForceDealsViolenceLessonsAuthorityFemaleCaringApesCongoWhalesBonobosSharing And Caring Author:Riane Eisler
“We must never allow demagogues to divide us up by race, by religion, by national origin, by gender, or sexual orientation. Black and whites, Latino, Asian-American, Native American, Christian, Jew, Muslim, and every religion - straight or gay, male or female - we must stand together. This country belongs to all of us.” CountryChristianTogetherBlackGayFemaleJewGenderNativeBlack And WhiteNative AmericanLatino Author:Bernie Sanders
“From the beginning, God designed a world in which his image bearers - male and female together - were his A-Team for getting things done in the world. It was more than "wouldn't it be nice if men and women could get along better." God knew this was the way his world would work best and we would flourish as he intends. Men and women - together - in an alliance that received God's explicit blessing.” MenWorldDoneTogetherNiceBlessingMen And WomenFemaleBeing NiceExplicitGetting Things Done Author:Carolyn Custis James
“I was always in and out of school. What I learned in high school is that female friendships are so much more important than worrying about having a boyfriend or looking good or things like that. I had such a good girlfriend growing up that we didn't need anything. We had such a creative world of our own imagination together. For me, if I have a child, I would say, "I hope you find a best friend that makes it so you don't really need much but each other." Learning about that type of friendship and trust is one of the best things I ever got out of school.” WorldChildrenImportantSchoolTogetherImaginationWorryCreativeGrowing UpHigh SchoolFemaleGirlfriendLooking GoodGood Girl Author:Kirsten Dunst
“When Derek Miller and I started working together, we had a very clear vision for the sound of the band. It was one which combined our favorite musical elements: driving guitars, bombastic beats, and female vocals. We've always been interested in making music that is essentially pop but that steps outside of the traditional formula into a stranger, more abrasive world. We love that our music makes people dance with complete abandon and feel empowered. It's very uninhibited music, and that's what makes it so fun.” PeopleWorldTogetherFunVisionFemaleMusicalStrangerDrivingWorking TogetherAbandonEmpowered Author:Alexis Krauss
“There were so many different factions and that's I think what my father was taking issue with was the idea of, look, you can't go from male dominance to female dominance and expect anything to be better. We're all shits, ultimately, and we've got to do the best we can together.” ThinkingDifferentTogetherFatherFemale Author:John Buffalo Mailer
“By divine design, men and women are intended to progress together toward perfection and a fulness of glory. Because of their distinctive temperaments and capacities, males and females each bring to a marriage relationship unique perspectives and experiences.” MenTogetherProgressDesignDivinePerspectiveUniqueGloryMen And WomenCapacityFemalePerfectionMalesTemperamentDistinctiveUnique Perspective Author:David A. Bednar
“Spiritual Partnership ... The new female and the new male are partners on a journey of spiritual growth. They want to make the journey. Their love and trust keep them together. Their intuition guides them. They consult with each other. They are friends. They laugh a lot. They are equals. That is what a spiritual partnership is: a partnership between equals for the purpose of spiritual growth.” WantTogetherSpiritualPurposeGrowthLaughingJourneyFemaleMalesIntuitionGuidesPartnersFlamesSpiritual GrowthPartnershipLove And TrustYour SoulmateSoulmate LoveFlames And LoveSpiritual Partnership Book:Soul Stories Source: Soul Stories
“We got quiet. The garden was combing her hair and putting on earrings. The house was full of dancing creatures, not male and female but both, two lovers in one body. The books downstairs were reciting their poetry to each other, rubbing together, whispering through the leather covers. Wine was flowing through the water pipes. You had caught my leaping heart in your hand like a fish.” HeartTwoBookBodyHandsTogetherHouseWaterHairLoversQuietCreaturesFemaleGardenWineDancingMalesCaughtFishesPipeLeatherWhisperingEarringsRecitingTwo Lovers Author:Francesca Lia Block
“a mother's death also means the loss of the consistent, supportive family system that once supplied her with a secure home base, she then has to develop her self-confidence and self-esteem through alternate means. Without a mother or mother-figure to guide her, a daughter also has to piece together a female self-image of her own.” MeanSelfHomeTogetherMotherLossPiecesSelf EsteemFiguresDaughterFemaleGuidesSelf ConfidenceEsteemSecureConsistentSupportiveHome BaseSupportive Family Book:Motherless Daughters: The Legacy of Loss Source: Motherless Daughters: The Legacy of Loss
“The tango is the man and woman in search of each other. It is the search for an embrace, a way to be together, when the man feels that he is a male and the woman feels that she is female, without machismo. She likes to be led; he likes to lead. Disagreements may occur later or they may not. When that moment comes, it is important to have positive and productive dialogue, fifty-fifty. The music arouses and torments, the dance is the coupling of two people defenseless against the world and powerless to change things.” PeopleMenWorldWayFeelsMayTwoImportantMomentsTogetherHe ManMen And WomenFemaleEmbraceDanceMalesLikesDialogueFiftyProductiveThat MomentTormentPowerlessDisagreementTangoDefenselessMachismoCoupling Author:Juan Carlos Copes