“If we think about sexual life for a gender life, it seems to me that we have to allow for certain kinds of changes or certain kinds of ways of reconceptualizing ourselves.” IfsThinkingWayKindSeemsCertainGender Author:Judith Butler
“It's not my concern. It's your concern. I just keep working. I keep posing certain questions and I think there are times when people think "What happened to the Judith Butler I used to know?" or "She's not doing gender trouble. Does that mean she refuses it or she's disavowed it?" And I would say no. I have not refused or disavowed anything.” PeopleThinkingKnowsMeanDoeUsedCertainHappenedTroubleConcernRefuseGenderButlersPosing Author:Judith Butler
“I have simply taken some of the same questions and reposed them in new ways. But, you see, I must live. Right? I mean I can't stay the same for everyone to be consumed as the author of "Gender trouble". I have to continue to live and that means I have to "reposer les questions".” WayMeanI CanTakenTroubleGenderNew WaysConsumed Author:Judith Butler
“I want to say that the way in which we understand gender actually changes the way we live gender.” WayWantGender Author:Judith Butler
“The important thing is to think about theory in life in that way. And I think we don't have to be theorists, we don't have to have gone to the academy, or to the university to learn theory and to be a theorist of gender.” ThinkingWayImportantGoneTheoryImportant ThingsUniversityGenderAcademyTheorists Author:Judith Butler
“Every taxi driver I have ever spoken to has a theory of gender.” TheoryGenderDriversTaxi Author:Judith Butler
“Everyone has a set of presuppositions: what gender is, what it's not. And they may not write them out or they may not be in theoretical books published by Routledge, but they have a theory.” WritingMayBookTheoryGenderTheoretical Author:Judith Butler
“If you have a conversation "Why is it you think masculinity is linked with heterosexuality? Or why is it you think masculinity is linked with sexual dominance or the sexually active position in the sex act?" If you start to ask people those questions, then they realize "Maybe gender is not one thing. Maybe I have collected a number of things under one category and I've made a mistake".” PeopleIfsThinkingMadeAsksSexRealizingNumbersMistakeOne ThingPositionConversationGenderActiveCategoriesLinkedMasculinitySexuallyMade A MistakeDominanceHeterosexuality Author:Judith Butler
“The United States are such a large place. And there are some states and some cities where the questions of gender or sexuality would not be asked, or where scholars or academics are working in small little corners of the universities trying to raise these questions and being told that either that they're strange or not appropriate or being actively opposed. There are other places where there is very active scholarship going on. Certainly on gender.” TryingLittlesStatesUnitedCitiesUnited StatesStrangeRaisesUniversityCornersGenderActiveSexualityAppropriateScholarScholarship Author:Judith Butler
“I have also been invited to talk to psychologists and psychoanalysts and I liked that very much. Because, they are the ones who are bringing a lot of very, you know, problematic ideas about sexuality and gender into psychiatric and psychological settings. And I like having some influence there.” KnowsIdeasInfluenceGenderSexualitySettingPsychologicalSettingsInvitedPsychologistPsychiatric Author:Judith Butler
“What makes You Can't Take It With You so popular and a perennial favorite with student and amateur productions (it continues to be one of the top 10 best-selling plays year after year) is the breadth of characters and personalities on display: in age, race, gender, social status, a true cross section of society when the play was written and also true today in terms of the reality of the humanity on display.” YearsPlayCharacterRealityAgeTodayHumanitySocialTermRaceWrittenStudentsPersonalityCrossesProductionsGenderSellingDisplaySectionsBreadthSocial StatusTop 10 Author:Chris Hart
“For me, diversity whether you think of it as race or gender, it's not a trend, it's a human movement, it's a human feeling, it's a human desire.” ThinkingHumansFeelingsDesireRaceMovementDiversityGenderTrends Author:Iman Abdulmajid
“I think people will have great conversations about religions, women's sexuality, gender issues and gay issues.” PeopleThinkingIssuesGayConversationGenderSexualityGender Issues Author:Pam Grier
“To take one example, I mean, the whole issue of bathrooms and gender - in this particular election, when the stakes were so high, the fact that Democrats and liberals, more generally, lost a lot of political capital on this issue that frightened people. People were misinformed about certain things, but it was really a question of where young people would be going to the bathroom and where they would be in lockers.” PeopleMeanWholeFactsWould BeYoungPoliticalCertainLostIssuesExampleParticularElectionDemocratGenderFrightenedStakesBathroomLockers Author:Steve Inskeep
“Is that really the issue [of bathrooms and gender] we want to be pushing leading up to a momentous election like this one? It's that shortsightedness that comes from identity politics.” WantIssuesIdentityElectionGenderPushingBathroomIdentity Politics Author:Steve Inskeep
“Our individual wholeness includes a masculine and a feminine side, which are slowly (or not so slowly) wrung out of us, depending on which gender you are.” IndividualSidesGenderFeminineWholenessMasculine Author:Peter Buffett
“MMI brothers were very resistant to women such as Lynn Shiflet and others who emerged as leaders within the OAAU, so one of the tensions that occurred was around gender equality and gender leadership inside of Malcolm's X entourage.” LeaderBrotherGenderTensionGender EqualityEntourage Author:Manning Marable
“In my first 100 days, I'll work with both parties to make the biggest investment in good-paying jobs in decades. We'll also raise the minimum wage - a big deal for the nearly two-thirds of minimum-wageworkers who are women. And we'll give women the tools they need to fight for equal pay. This isn't just a "women's issue"т - it's an issue every American should care about, no matter their gender.” NeedsGivingShouldFirstsTwoMatterBigsCareJobsFightingDealsPartyPayIssuesEqualToolsThirdsRaisesInvestmentGenderDecadesMinimumBig DealMinimum WageEqual Pay Author:Hillary Clinton
“The more you lecture those running the companies on how they need to give more breaks to women or other minority groups and be more open-minded to their work products and perhaps question themselves on a double standard, the more some of those people shut down to your messaging. I'm not saying it's right; I'm just saying you can very easily get labeled as someone who sees everything through a prism of race or gender or what have you. So we have to walk a fine line. It's sad but it's the truth.” PeopleNeedsGivingRunningLinesWalksRaceCompanyBreakGroupsProductsFineStandardsGenderMinoritiesLecturesOpen MindedFine LinesJust SayingDouble StandardPrismsMinority Groups Author:Megyn Kelly
“I'd also talk about the period and of course all the different gender things that people might feel that they are. I'd be a terrible teacher because of what I don't know about that.” PeopleKnowsFeelsDifferentMightCoursesTeacherPeriodsTerribleGender Author:Jen Kirkman
“I feel like I have had to catch up to the art I've made, and learn from the protagonists I have written, especially in relation to gender.” FeelsArtMadeWrittenRelationGenderProtagonists Author:Vivek Shraya
“Children are receptive to talking about gender creativity, confirming the importance of the book as a means to instigate this dialogue at an early age.” MeanChildrenBookAgeTalkingCreativityImportanceGenderDialogueReceptive Author:Vivek Shraya
“I insist on the dignity and God- given potential and work of every child, regardless of race or gender or sexual orientation or what zip code they were born in.” ChildrenGivenBornRaceDignityGenderCodeOrientationZips Author:Barack Obama
“I'm so pleased to see us talking gender specific messages that are focusing on men on a way I think it needs to be focused in on and I think it's important.” ThinkingMenWayNeedsImportantTalkingMessagesGenderFocused Author:T. D. Jakes
“The legalization of drugs, a proliferation of a public health approach to drug use and drug addition, a compassionate mental health system. And can we just say gender equality and the end of mass incarceration and the final shedding of the vestiges of a slave-based nation? Can we have that, too? Can I have it all?” EndsUseNationsDrugApproachMassMental HealthSlaveFinalsGenderCompassionateGender EqualityPublic HealthProliferationIncarcerationDrug UseMass IncarcerationHealth System Author:Ayelet Waldman
“In some states, a very small number of states, it is illegal to discriminate against someone on the basis of their gender identity, transgender identification. In the vast majority, it is perfectly legal.” StatesNumbersIdentityBasesMajorityGenderIllegalTransgenderIdentificationSmall NumbersGender Identity Author:Allyson Robinson
“Gender assignment is a "construction" and yet many genderqueer and trans people refuse those assignments in part or in full. That refusal opens the way for a more radical form of self-determination, one that happens in solidarity with others who are undergoing a similar struggle.” PeopleWaySelfHappensFormStruggleDeterminationRefuseGenderRadicalConstructionSelf DeterminationSolidarityRefusalTransAssignments Author:Judith Butler
“I do know that some people believe that I see gender as a "choice" rather than as an essential and firmly fixed sense of self. My view is actually not that. No matter whether one feels one's gendered and sexed reality to be firmly fixed or less so, every person should have the right to determine the legal and linguistic terms of their embodied lives.” PeopleKnowsFeelsShouldBelievePersonsSelfMatterRealityChoicesTermViewsEssentialsShould HaveDetermineGenderFixedSense Of Self Author:Judith Butler
“Whether one wants to be free to live out a "hard-wired" sense of sex or a more fluid sense of gender, is less important than the right to be free to live it out, without discrimination, harassment, injury, pathologization or criminalization - and with full institutional and community support. That is most important in my view.” WantImportantHardSexCommunityViewsSupportGenderDiscriminationInjuryFluidHarassmentCommunity Support Author:Judith Butler
“My sense is that we may not need the language of innateness or genetics to understand that we are all ethically bound to recognize another person's declared or enacted sense of sex and/or gender. We do not have to agree upon the "origins" of that sense of self to agree that it is ethically obligatory to support and recognize sexed and gendered modes of being that are crucial to a person's well-being.” NeedsWellsMayPersonsSelfLanguageSexSupportAgreeBoundsGenderWell BeingCrucialGeneticsSense Of SelfAgree Upon Author:Judith Butler
“Sometimes there are ways to minimize the importance of gender in life, or to confuse gender categories so that they no longer have descriptive power. But other times gender can be very important to us, and some people really love the gender that they have claimed for themselves.” PeopleWayImportantSometimesImportanceGenderCategories Author:Judith Butler
“If gender is eradicated, so too is an important domain of pleasure for many people. And others have a strong sense of self bound up with their genders, so to get rid of gender would be to shatter their self-hood.” PeopleIfsImportantSelfWould BeStrongPleasureBoundsGenderDomainHoodSense Of SelfStrong Sense Of Self Author:Judith Butler
“I think we have to accept a wide variety of positions on gender. Some want to be gender-free, but others want to be free really to be a gender that is crucial to who they are.” ThinkingWantAcceptingPositionGenderWideVarietyCrucial Author:Judith Butler
“Intersectionality has made an important contribution to social and political analysis, asking all of us to think about what assumptions of race and class we make when we speak about "women" or what assumptions of gender and race we make when we speak about "class." It allows us to unpack those categories and see the various kinds of social formations and power relations that constitute those categories.” ThinkingKindMadeImportantPoliticalSpeakSocialRaceClassRelationAskingVariousGenderAnalysisAssumptionContributionCategoriesFormationIntersectionalityImportant Contributions Author:Judith Butler
“What we need is a political and joyous alternative to the behaviorist discourse, the Christian discourse on evil or sin, and the convergence of the two in forms of gender policing that [is] tyrannical and destructive.” NeedsTwoChristianFormPoliticalEvilSinGenderAlternativesDestructiveDiscourseJoyousConvergence Author:Judith Butler
“Some trans people thought that in claiming that gender is performative that I was saying that it is all a fiction, and that a person's felt sense of gender was therefore "unreal." That was never my intention. I sought to expand our sense of what gender realities could be. But I think I needed to pay more attention to what people feel, how the primary experience of the body is registered, and the quite urgent and legitimate demand to have those aspects of sex recognized and supported.” PeopleThinkingFeelsPersonsBodyRealitySexFeltPayAttentionFictionNeededDemandAspectIntentionGenderPrimariesUrgentUnrealTrans Author:Judith Butler
“Is individual gender suffering relieved at the price of role conformity and the perpetuation of role stereotypes on a social level? In changing sex, does the transsexual encourage a sexist society whose continued existence depends upon the perpetuation of these roles and stereotypes? These and similar questions are seldom raised in transsexual therapy at present.” DoeSufferingIndividualSocialSexLevelsExistenceRolesDependsRaisedGenderTherapyConformityStereotypeRelievedSexistTranssexuals Author:Janice Raymond
“My feminist view - that gender is on a continuum and we are all better off dropping a lot of those binary notions - is one that is shared by the more recent generation of trans activists and theorists.” ViewsGenerationsNotionFeministGenderActivistBetter OffDroppingTransTheoristsContinuumBinary Author:Susan Faludi
“Gender is really varied and complicated and sort of infinitely individualistic.” ComplicatedGenderIndividualistic Author:Susan Faludi
“There's just so many facets, I think, of the ignorance in our society that have to be corrected if we're really going to have a democratic society and a society that is just and that respects all of the members of this society regardless of who they are, what color they may be, what sexual orientation that they have or what gender, you know, they happen to be.” IfsThinkingKnowsMayHappensIgnoranceColorMembersDemocraticGenderOur SocietyOrientationFacetsThis SocietyDemocratic Society Author:Dolores Huerta
“Something happens in the middle when women are in their 30s, and we can start with an array of things that happen, whether it is - you hope this doesn't exist any longer - but overt discrimination; whether it's subtle gender discrimination, which absolutely does exist among men and women; whether it's the fact that it gets hard to juggle at that point children, housework, etc. But people still have to go home and cook the dinner and clean the dishes and get the beds made and so on. And so, for a whole bunch of reasons, women tend to fall out in their 30s still today.” PeopleMenChildrenDoeMadeStillsHardReasonWholeFactsHomeHappensTodayFallMiddleBedMen And WomenCleanGenderDinnerThings HappenDiscriminationBunchCooksEtcSubtleDishesHouseworkGender Discrimination Author:Sallie Krawcheck
“I was raised in a musical family - 5 girls and 1 boy - so all of us girls don't do gender. We were all made to believe that we could do anything we wanted and so we did. One of my early bands was with my sisters. I didn't really come across a lot of problems because I just didn't see it. I took myself seriously and so everyone else did too - this is my mantra.” BelieveMadeProblemWantedGirlBoysBandRaisedMusicalGenderMy SisterMantras Author:Suzi Quatro
“We must now, in the 21st century, protect democracy, one which rests on fundamental rights for all, regardless of skin color, gender, race or religion. Nothing less than that is at stake.” RaceDemocracyRightsCenturyColorProtectSkinsFundamentalsGenderStakes21st CenturySkin ColorFundamental Rights Author:Martin Schulz
“I think there's so many things happening, whether it's gender inequality or immigration, there's just so many issues happening around the world where not doing anything makes you guilty.” ThinkingWorldIssuesHappeningsGenderThings HappenImmigrationGuiltyInequalityAround The WorldGender Inequality Author:Lilly Singh
“The church is an organisation that institutionalises an aversion to homosexuality, it institutionalises gender inequality and it speaks from a place of teaching people being ashamed of their sexuality.” PeopleSpeakChurchTeachingGenderSexualityInequalityAshamedHomosexualityOrganisationAversionGender Inequality Author:Hozier
“We cannot be liberated as women in a society built on class oppression or gender oppression or religious oppression.” ReligiousClassBuiltGenderOppressionLiberated Author:Nawal El Saadawi
“There is no fullness of joy in the next life without a family unit, including a husband, a wife, and posterity. Further, men are that they might have joy. In the eternal perspective, same-gender activity will only bring sorrow and grief and the loss of eternal opportunities.” MenMightJoyNextOpportunityLossGriefWifePerspectiveSorrowActivityHusbandEternalIncludingGenderUnitsFullnessPosterityNext LifeFamily Unit Author:Dallin H. Oaks
“I think it is an accurate statement to say that some people consider feelings of same-gender attraction to be the defining fact of their existence. There are also people who consider the defining fact of their existence that they are from Texas or that they were in the United States Marines. Or they are red-headed, or they are the best basketball player that ever played for such-and-such a high school. People can adopt a characteristic as the defining example of their existence and often those characteristics are physical.” PeopleThinkingStatesFactsFeelingsSchoolUnitedExistenceUnited StatesPlayerExampleBasketballHigh SchoolRedGenderAttractionStatementsCharacteristicsTexasAccurateMarineDefiningBasketball PlayerBest BasketballUnited States Marine Author:Dallin H. Oaks
“Let's not forget that for thousands of years the institution of marriage has been between a man and a woman. Until quite recently, in a limited number of countries, there has been no such thing as a marriage between persons of the same gender. Suddenly we are faced with the claim that thousands of years of human experience should be set aside because we should not discriminate in relation to the institution of marriage. When that claim is made, the burden of proving that this step will not undo the wisdom and stability of millennia of experience lies on those who would make the change.” MenShouldYearsHumansPersonsHas BeensMadeCountryLyingForgetNumbersStepsProveClaimsRelationInstitutionsBurdenGenderStabilityHuman Experience Author:Dallin H. Oaks