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“Both bisexuality and transgender are fluid notions of identity, while lesbian and gay are fixed identities. Some people believe that means there should be two movements: LG and BT. But then what're ya gonna do about SM players? And intersexed folks who want their own I in the alphabet soup of sex and gender related politics?”

People Want Should Believe Mean Two Sex Player Movement Identity Gay Notion Folks Gender Fixed Related Soup Transgender Fluid Alphabet Bisexuality Sms Alphabet Soup Sex And Gender

Author:Kate Bornstein

“When I go to a great movie, I can live somebody else's life a little bit for a while. I can walk in somebody else's shoes. I can see what it feels like to be a member of a different gender, a different race, a different economic class, to live in a different time, to have a different belief.”

Feels Littles I Can Different Belief Bits Walks Race Class Economic Members Little Bit Shoes Gender Different Times Different Races Different Beliefs Economic Class

Author:Roger Ebert

“I feel if you hold yourself as an artist first and foremost, the barriers of gender come down.”

Ifs Feels Firsts Artist Gender Barriers

Author:Ondi Timoner

“The ideal reader's the same, and I suppose this person has never had a face or a gender or an age. It's just some kind of unknown other who will be sympathetic and read each word carefully and understand what I'm writing about. I suppose every writer feels this.”

Feels Writing Kind Persons Age Faces Reader Ideals Gender Sympathetic

Author:Paul Auster

“Our true nature is free of any and all notions of gender, of any notions of difference whatsoever.”

Literature Differences Notion Gender True Nature

Author:Andrew Cohen

“When a human being becomes so still that they begin to lose awareness of their gender, and they are simply looking into that abyss where there is no notion of self whatsoever, the world disappears. And that's really the only place to go. It's the only place to remain.”

World Humans Stills Self Literature Loses Human Beings Awareness Self Awareness Notion Gender Disappear Abyss Places To Go

Author:Andrew Cohen

“I'm not convinced that what are traditionally considered to be male energies or qualities or female energies or qualities really have as much to do with gender as many people think they do.”

People Thinking Literature Energy Quality Female Males Gender Convinced

Author:Andrew Cohen

“We have been very conditioned by the cultures that we come from and are usually very identified with the particular gender that we happen to be a member of.”

Has Beens Happens Culture Literature Particular Members Gender

Author:Andrew Cohen

“I'm suspicious of any man or woman who approaches their own liberation with any kind of gender bias”

Men Kind Literature Approach Prejudice Gender Liberation Bias Suspicious Gender Bias

Author:Andrew Cohen

“Norway, Iceland, Australia, Canada, Sweden, Switzerland, Belgium, Japan, the Netherlands, Denmark, and the United Kingdom are among the least religious societies on earth. According to the United Nations' Human Development Report (2005), they are also the healthiest, as indicated by life expectancy, adult literacy, per capita income, educational attainment, gender equality, homicide rate, and infant mortality. . . . Conversely, the fifty nations now ranked lowest in terms of the United Nations' human development index are unwaveringly religious.”

Source: Letter to a Christian Nation

“But the issue of sexual harassment is not the end of it. There are other issues - political issues, gender issues - that people need to be educated about.”

People Needs Ends Political Issues Gender Educated Harassment Political Issues Gender Issues

Author:Anita Hill

“Suddenly women's lib had made me feel my life had been wasted.”

Feels Made Gender

Author:Barbara Bush

“If I can mean to people - if I can symbolize the ability to pursue gender equality, racial equality, and to be truthful about our experiences, then, absolutely, that's what I want to be.”

People Ifs Want Mean I Can Ability Gender Pursue Truthful Gender Equality Being Truthful Racial Equality

Author:Anita Hill

“Everyone's really different. I've worked with women who I've never wanted to tell anything about myself to, and I've worked with guys who have been pouring wells of emotion. So emotional availability is not a gender-specific thing.”

Wells Has Beens Different Wanted Guy Emotion Emotional Gender Pouring Availability

Author:Kristen Stewart

“I'm the result of upbringing, class, race, gender, social prejudices, and economics. So I'm a victim again. A result.”

Social Results Race Class Economic Economics Prejudice Victim Gender Upbringing

Author:James Hillman

“When I was a kid, I wanted to be a boy. I really had gender issues. I really thought I was supposed to be a boy. I used to sneak into my dad's room and put on a suit, drink a cocktail, and pretend to smoke a cigarette.”

Kids Wanted Used Rooms Boys Issues Dad Drink My Dad Gender Suits Smoke Supposed To Be Cigarette Cocktails Sneak Gender Issues

Author:Jane Lynch

“I feel like until you show every side, you're not doing the gender justice.”

Feels Shows Sides Justice Gender

Author:Rashida Jones

“Be yourself. Forget about whether you are male or female and just work hard to become a director who truly knows her craft and the direction she wants the film to go. People respect a director for her work regardless of her gender.”

People Knows Want Hard Film Forget Hard Work Directors Female Males Gender Crafts Being Yourself

Author:Mabel Cheung

“Feminism is still one of those taboo words, so hardly anybody talks about it. People usually go gender-neutral and say the book and film [Room] are about "the triumph of the human spirit.”

People Humans Stills Book Film Spirit Rooms Feminism Gender Triumph Human Spirit Taboo

Author:Emma Donoghue

“I actually tried to think of the story [Room] in gender-neutral terms at first and said to myself, "OK, would this work if it were a man?" Well no, you can't make a man pregnant, so it's got to be a woman.”

Ifs Thinking Men Firsts Wells Said Stories Term Rooms Gender Pregnant

Author:Emma Donoghue

“My theory of everything is that we are training kids to have gender bias against girls, therefore when you are an adult, you don't see it. We think it's normal.”

Thinking Kids Girl Theory Normal Training Adults Gender Bias Gender Bias

Author:Geena Davis

“We want to create, never mind the leaders or the bishops or chief rabbis or imams, or Popes. We want to create a grassroots movement where people will become attuned to uncompassionate discourse in the same way as we are now attuned to sort of gender imbalance in our speech.”

People Way Want Mind Leader Movement Speech Gender Chiefs Pope Discourse Bishops Imbalance Rabbi Grassroots Grassroots Movements

Author:Karen Armstrong

“To seek out making films that are unique and insightful, boundary-pushing and genre-bending, and not films that fit into the neat, little boxes that people "want" (expect) women to be making. In some ways, I guess for me, any filmmaker should strive to be a good director first, regardless of their gender, race, sexual orientation etc.”

People Way Want Should Firsts Littles Film Race Fit Directors Unique Strive Boxes Gender Boundaries Genre Filmmaker Etc Pushing Insightful Neat Orientation Bending Good Directors

Author:Rania Attieh

“Setting aside the issue of gender while highlighting the symmetry of bodies seemed indispensable in order to focus on the narrative of human beings in the making.”

Humans Body Order Human Beings Issues Focus Gender Setting Settings Narrative Indispensable Symmetry Highlighting

Author:Alante Kavaite

“It became normal for women on the internet to adopt gender-neutral or male screen names.”

Names Internet Normal Males Gender Screens

Author:Arthur Chu

“As Baudelaire said it so beautifully, Emma Bovary is an androgynous character. She cannot be reduced to a gender or a sociological type. She represents something bigger than herself. That was the genius of Flaubert: the ability to combine the general and the particular.”

Said Character Ability Particular Type Genius Bigger Gender Emma Sociological Baudelaire Androgynous

Author:Sophie Barthes

“Writers of either gender ought to be able to do the opposite sex-that's one basic test of competence, after all.”

Able Sex Ought Tests Opposites Gender Competence

Book:Conversations with Julian Barnes

Source: Conversations with Julian Barnes

“I never think that being a woman is so hard. Maybe don't think about your gender and be confident as you go forward rather than try to single yourself out as some underserved part of filmmaking.”

Thinking Trying Hard Gender Filmmaking Being A Woman Be Confident

Author:Jerusha Hess

“Because I also teach college, I am around a lot of young women who are just starting out, and I often see them coming up against certain expectations that may be more gender-specific.”

May Young Certain Teach College Expectations Starting Gender Young Women Starting Out

Author:Liza Johnson

“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.”

Doe Hard Play Courses Difficult Sound Worst Gender

Author:Julia Loktev

“It doesn't happen often, it's what you dream and hope for. We are happy, but we want to make sure these changes have teeth. What we want to get across most is that this is a real opportunity for the military. They can step up and be a leader on misogyny and gender issues.”

Want Real Dream Happens Opportunity Leader Steps Issues Military Gender Teeth Misogyny Step Up Gender Issues

Author:Amy Ziering

“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.”

Thinking Knows Want May Happens Girl Boys Roles Five Tree Cry Adults Eight Gender Clever Nine Instance Uncertainty Climbing Gender Roles Descending Prisms Climbing Trees

Author:Gloria Steinem

“When the gender role starts to descend, boys get into the masculine box.”

Boys Roles Boxes Gender Masculine Gender Roles

Author:Gloria Steinem

“The old languages - at least the ones I know - don't have gender. They don't have gendered pronouns. There's no "he" and "she." A human being is a human being.”

Knows Humans Language Human Beings Gender Pronouns

Author:Gloria Steinem

“Girls come to the gang for very different reasons than boys. For boys in marginalized communities, they have a gender problem, and they solve it often through gang membership. They find an ability to do masculinity in a way that reasserts their importance in a society that mostly ignores them. For girls, they're coming out of more damaged backgrounds. Their families are often the reason they get propelled into gang membership.”

Way Different Reason Problem Girl Community Ability Boys Importance Gender Solve Backgrounds Coming Out Masculinity Gang Membership Marginalized

Author:Meda Chesney-Lind

“I don't agree with a core statement by most feminists, the statement by Simone de Beauvoir: "One is not born a woman, one becomes one." Even as a schoolgirl I wasn't convinced by the claim that gender has nothing to do with biology and is only shaped by one's environment.”

Born Environment Claims Agree Feminist Gender Convinced Core Statements Biology

Author:Kristina Schroder

“I think a certain kind of sexism is so matter-of-fact, and has been for so long, that young women feel less valuable or second-tier if their gender and attractiveness or sexual desirability are not being commented on in the workplace.”

Ifs Thinking Feels Kind Long Has Beens Matter Facts Young Certain Valuable Gender Sexism Young Women Workplace Matter Of Fact Attractiveness Desirability

Author:Cris Mazza

“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.”

Thinking Men Different Kids Certain Roles Amount Married Expectations Overcoming Gender Partnership Gender Roles Housework

Author:Alison Pill

“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.”

People Ifs Feels Should Writing Trying Wells May Use Feelings Speak Wealth Interesting Race Opinion Criticism Gender Sexuality Race And Gender Gender And Sexuality

Author:Wesley Morris

“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.”

People Used Mother Race Wife Journey Daughter Moved Gender Who I Am Old People

Author:Hillary Clinton

“I'm glad people see some of the stories that way. I see where they're coming from, although none of the stories are specifically intended to arouse. There is a gender divide on the short story "The Girlfriend Game" - women seem to consider it "sexy" but men usually find it uncomfortable.”

People Men Way Stories Seems Games Sexy Gender Glad Uncomfortable Girlfriend Divides Short Story

Author:Nick Antosca

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

Matter Age Purpose Values Plans No Matter What Gender Disability Location

Author:Sharron Angle

“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.”

Source: Freedom: The End of the Human Condition

“We depend on manly characteristics to keep us safe. Every single one of the dead firemen heroes on 9/11 were men. This was one group where liberals didn't ask why there wasn't a more pleasing gender balance, because the Upper West Side is not fireproof. What happens in combat in some distant field is abstract to liberals, but they can understand the need to have strong, brave men in their fire department.”

Men Needs Happens Asks Strong Sides Fire Groups Fields Depends Hero Balance Safe Brave West Gender Abstract Characteristics Department Combat Manly Brave Man Fireman West Side Fire Department

Author:Kate O'Beirne

“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!”

Men Mind Self Mother Gender Inequality Narcissism Liberated Exaltation Gender Inequality Megalomania Unfree

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“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.”

Persons Doe Matter Numbers Personality Gender Grammar Skirts Fray Pronouns

Author:Karen Elizabeth Gordon

“The minute that you make the discussion in the room more well-rounded, multicultural, and of course having differences in gender, you're going to have a different approach.”

Wells Different Courses Differences Rooms Minutes Approach Gender Discussion Multicultural Well Rounded Different Approach

Author:Cara Santa Maria

“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.”

“In professions where the criteria of professionalism, expertise, good manners and ethics apply, the gender aspect, i.e., whether a person is a man or woman, is not relevant at all. What is important is that citizens' confidence in politicians and the politics is strong enough to make politicians proud of their profession.”

Men Persons Important Enough Strong Proud Citizens Politician Ethics Aspect Gender Profession Manners Good Man Relevant Strong Enough Criteria Expertise Professionalism Good Manners

Author:Dalia Grybauskaite

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

School Gender Defined

Author:Dalia Grybauskaite

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