“The coup de grace which ends the patient's life altogether is quite equivalent to the drastic modification in the institution of marriage that would be brought on by same-gender marriage.” EndsWould BeGraceInstitutionsPatientGenderModificationDrasticCoups Author:Dallin H. Oaks
“If you are trying to live with and maintain ascendancy over same-gender attractions, the best way to do that is to have groups that define their members in terms other than same-gender attractions.” IfsWayTryingTermGroupsMembersGenderAttractionBest WayAscendancy Author:Dallin H. Oaks
“We urge persons with same-gender attractions to control those and to refrain from acting upon them, which is a sin, just as we urge persons with heterosexual attractions to refrain from acting upon them until they have the opportunity for a marriage recognized by God as well as by the law of the land. That is the way to happiness and eternal life.” WayWellsPersonsLawOpportunitySinActingLandEternalGenderAttractionUrgesEternal LifeRefrain Author:Dallin H. Oaks
“We live in a society which is so saturated with sexuality that it perhaps is more troublesome now, because of that fact, for a person to look beyond their gender orientation to other aspects of who they are.” LooksPersonsFactsAspectGenderSexualityOrientationTroublesomeSaturated Author:Lance B. Wickman
“There's no denial that one's gender orientation is certainly a core characteristic of any person, but it's not the only one.” PersonsGenderCoreDenialCharacteristicsOrientation Author:Lance B. Wickman
“Why somebody has a same-gender attraction... who can say? But what matters is the fact that we know we can control how we behave, and it is behavior which is important.” KnowsImportantMatterFactsBehaviorGenderAttractionBehaveWhat Matters Author:Lance B. Wickman
“Same-gender attraction did not exist in the pre-earth life and neither will it exist in the next life. It is a circumstance that for whatever reason or reasons seems to apply right now in mortality, in this nano-second of our eternal existence.” ReasonSeemsEarthNextExistenceCircumstancesRight NowEternalGenderAttractionMortalityNext LifeEarth LifeNano Author:Lance B. Wickman
“The good news for somebody who is struggling with same-gender attraction is this: It is that 'I'm not stuck with it forever.' It's just now. Admittedly, for each one of us, it's hard to look beyond the 'now' sometimes. But nonetheless, if you see mortality as now, it's only during this season.” IfsLooksSometimesHardStruggleForeverNewsSeasonsGenderAttractionStuckMortalityGood News Author:Lance B. Wickman
“There's really no question that there is an anguish associated with the inability to marry in this life. We feel for someone that has that anguish. I feel for somebody that has that anguish. But it's not limited to someone who has same-gender attraction.” FeelsGenderAttractionThis LifeAnguishInability Author:Lance B. Wickman
“There is no such thing in the Lord's eyes as something called same-gender marriage.” EyeLordGender Author:Lance B. Wickman
“This notion that 'what happens in your house doesn't affect what happens in my house' on the subject of the institution of marriage may be the ultimate sophistry of those advocating same-gender marriage.” MayHappensHouseSubjectsUltimateInstitutionsNotionGenderAdvocatingSophistry Author:Lance B. Wickman
“Marriage is a unified institution. Marriage means a committed, legally sanctioned relationship between a man and a woman. That's what it means. That's what it means in the revelations. That's what it means in the secular law. You cannot have that marriage coexisting institutionally with something else called same-gender marriage. It simply is a definitional impossibility.” MenMeanLawInstitutionsCommittedGenderRevelationsSecularImpossibilityUnified Author:Lance B. Wickman
“There are numbers of different types of partnerships or pairings that may exist in society that aren't same-gender sexual relationships that provide for some right that we have no objection to. All that said... there may be on occasion some specific rights that we would be concerned about being granted to those in a same-gender relationship. Adoption is one that comes to mind, simply because that is a right which has been historically, doctrinally associated so closely with marriage and family.” MindMayHas BeensSaidDifferentWould BeNumbersRightsTypeConcernedGenderGrantedOccasionsPartnershipAdoptionObjectionsMarriage And Family Author:Lance B. Wickman
“It's not the Church that has made the issue of marriage a matter of federal law. Those who are vigorously advocating for something called same-gender marriage have essentially put that potato on the fork. They're the ones who have created a situation whereby the law of the land, one way or the other, is going to address this issue of marriage. This is not a situation where the Church has elected to take the matter into the legal arena or into the political arena. It's already there.” WayMadeMatterLawPoliticalChurchSituationIssuesLandGenderOne WayAddressesArenaPotatoesForksAdvocating Author:Lance B. Wickman
“Ultimately, the wisest course for anybody who's afflicted with same-gender attraction is to strive to extend one's horizon beyond just one's sexual orientation, one's gender orientation, and to try to see the whole person.” TryingPersonsWholeCoursesStriveGenderAttractionJust OneHorizonWisestOrientationWhole Person Author:Lance B. Wickman
“If I'm one that's afflicted with same-gender attraction, I should strive to see myself in a much broader context... seeing myself as a child of God with whatever my talents may be, whether intellect, or music, or athletics, or somebody that has a compassion to help people, to see myself in a larger setting and thus to see my life in that setting.” PeopleIfsShouldMayChildrenHelpingCompassionSeeingTalentStriveGenderIntellectAttractionSettingSettingsAthleticsChild Of God Author:Lance B. Wickman
“The more a person can look beyond gender orientation, the happier and more fulfilling life is likely to be.” LooksPersonsLife IsGenderFulfillingLife Is LikeOrientationFulfilling Life Author:Lance B. Wickman
“I've always wanted to explore characters of all races, all genders, all ages. It just seems to me to be a natural way to approach any kind of storytelling.” WayKindCharacterSeemsAgeWantedNaturalRaceApproachGenderStorytelling Author:Alan Moore
“Women speak because they wish to speak, whereas a man speaks only when driven to speak by something outside himself like, for instance, he can't find any clean socks.” MenSpeakWishWomenCleanGenderDrivenInstanceCleaningMen WomenSockFunny Men And Women Book:The Snake Has All the Lines Source: The Snake Has All the Lines
“America cannot be America in the new century until it deals with these new questions of gender, including the trans issues, and the questions around faith and Islam.” AmericaDealsIssuesCenturyIslamIncludingGenderTrans Author:Van Jones
“One of the days we unpack finding out how your kids are wired, what kind of intelligence has God given them, how do they give and receive love, what the passions of their life, how does their birth order and their gender affect them because all of those things are part of the tapestry that God is weaving together to use each of our children for His glory.” GivingKindChildrenDoeUseKidsTogetherOrderPassionGivenBirthFindingsGloryOur ChildrenGenderTapestryWeavingGiving And Receiving Author:Stephen Kendrick
“My mother has been to Mecca to perform her hajj; my dad hasn't. I come from a very liberal family, so even the people who are outwardly religious tend to subscribe to gender equality, the importance of open-mindedness, all that stuff. My family is generally nonprescriptive.” PeopleHas BeensMotherStuffReligiousDadMy FamilyImportanceMy DadGenderGender EqualityOpen MindednessMeccaHajj Author:Mohsin Hamid
“Almost all the voices in history have been men, but on this one question of gender, men don't talk about it. This has nothing to do with women; it has to do with men.” MenHas BeensVoiceGender Author:Stephen Marche
“Men's gender problems cause them a lot of suffering. There is a massive spiking suicide rate in middle age for men and a cultural attitude to male friendship that is destructive.” MenProblemAgeSufferingCausesAttitudeMiddleSuicideMalesRateGenderDestructiveMassiveMiddle AgesMale Friendship Author:Stephen Marche
“Men are enforced into a kind of silence about their gender; they're supposed to not think of it as a performance. That's the definition of manliness - that it's not a performance; it's being yourself, authentic. Whereas women have understood gender as performance. Men have not yet made that quantum leap, or rather they're making it in many ways, they're not thinking about it.” ThinkingMenWayKindMadeSilenceUnderstoodPerformancesDefinitionsGenderBeing YourselfLeapQuantumManlinessQuantum Leap Author:Stephen Marche
“Men talk about masculinity through sports and clothes. They don't talk about gender, they talk about LeBron James and whether it's okay to wear lipstick and eyeliner. They're not getting to the question at hand, which is, "What does it mean to be a man when the traditional values of masculinity are eroding incredibly rapidly?'” MenMeanDoeHandsValuesSportsClothesOkayGenderTraditionalMasculinityBe A ManLipstickTraditional ValuesEyeliner Author:Stephen Marche
“The problem with the way we discuss gender is that it tends to be "Let's sympathize with women" or "Let's sympathize with men."” MenWayProblemGender Author:Stephen Marche
“Men are losing power in their daily lives, but manliness is still iconic of power. This creates incredible turbulence around masculinity and incredible confusion around gender norms that's only going to accelerate.” MenStillsLosingIncrediblesGenderConfusionDaily LifeMasculinityNormIconicAccelerateManlinessTurbulenceLosing Power Author:Stephen Marche
“The first things that babies can notice is sex; the first thing that you can tell about a person when you see them walking down the street is their gender.” FirstsPersonsSexStreetsBabyWalkingGender Author:Stephen Marche
“I cannot imagine why a woman would ever call herself anything but a feminist. But a man calling himself a feminist, what does that mean? The answer is he wants to be taken as a good guy. Your choice is between saying you're a feminist and raising a flag at a "Take Back the Night" rally and being a men's rights activist, which is basically the only two ways men have of talking about gender right now, I mean that's just ridiculous. That's just two extremes that are totally useless.” MenWayWantMeanDoeTwoNightGuyChoicesAnswersTalkingTakenRightsImagineCallingRight NowFeministExtremesGenderRidiculousUselessActivistFlagsTwo WaysGood GuyTwo Extremes Author:Stephen Marche
“All of great leaders evidence four basic qualities that are central to their ability to lead: adaptive capacity, the ability to engage others through shared meaning, a distinctive voice, and unshakeable integrity. These four qualities mark all exemplary leaders, whatever their age, gender, ethnicity, or race.” AgeVoiceAbilityRaceQualityLeaderFourIntegrityEvidenceCapacityMarkGenderGreat LeaderDistinctiveEthnicityExemplaryAdaptive Author:Warren G. Bennis
“I conceived of myself in large part as a teacher. There wasn't a great understanding of gender discrimination. People knew that race discrimination was an odious thing, but there were many who thought that all the gender-based differentials in the law operated benignly in women's favor. So my objective was to take the Court step by step to the realization, in Justice Brennan's words, that the pedestal on which some thought women were standing all too often turned out to be a cage.” PeopleLawUnderstandingJusticeRaceStepsTeacherStandingCourtGenderFavorsDiscriminationObjectivesRealizationCagesPedestalGender Discrimination Author:Ruth Bader Ginsburg
“As an artist, I never wanted to be fettered by gender nor recognized or defined as a female poet, musician or singer. They don't do that with men - nobody says Picasso, the male artist. Curators call me up and say, "We want your work to be in a show about women artists," and I'm like, why? For Christ's sake, do we have to attach a gender onto everything?” MenWantShowsWantedArtistChristPoetMusicianFemaleMalesSakeGenderSingersDefinedCall MeCuratorWoman Artist Author:Patti Smith
“I think we all are born inside of our parents' narratives. We stay there for a good while. We are taught their narratives about everything: their marriage, the world, God, gender, identity, etcetera. Then, at some point, our own narrative develops too much integrity to live inside that story. We don't ever fully escape it, but we move into our own stories.” ThinkingWorldStoriesMovingParentBornToo MuchIdentityTaughtIntegrityGenderNarrativeGender IdentityEtcetera Author:Melissa Febos
“I feel like so much more than my gender and so much more than my relationship to my body and my relationship to men. And, but suddenly you're sort of asked to be an expert.” MenFeelsBodyGenderExperts Author:Lena Dunham
“To me, my version of feminism, it's co-extensive with human rights and democracy. It's just part of the same fight for everyone being free, and having autonomy and dignity. It's not pitting one gender against another, it's not saying anything is better, it's just clearing away injustice.” HumansFightingDemocracyRightsFeminismDignityInjusticeHuman RightsGenderVersionsAutonomyBeing FreeClearing Author:Naomi Wolf
“You write people as human beings first and then the gender specific stuff second.” PeopleWritingFirstsHumansStuffHuman BeingsGender Author:Irvine Welsh
“I think gender inequality is a problem that goes back a long, long time. In human society, as a whole, women have tended to have a kind of inferior position - very often combined with playing up women as great role [models].” ThinkingHumansKindLongWholeProblemRolesPositionLong TimeModelsGenderInequalityRole ModelsInferiorsHuman SocietyGender InequalityGreat Role ModelsPlaying Up Author:Amartya Sen
“Gender inequality is not one problem, it's a collection of problems.” ProblemGenderInequalityCollectionsGender Inequality Author:Amartya Sen
“There may be countries [where] there's no gender inequality in schooling, even in higher education, but [where there is] gender inequality in high business. Japan is a very good example of that. You might find cases in the United States where at one level women's equality has progressed tremendously. You don't have the kind of problem of higher women's mortality as you see in South Asia, North Africa, and East Asia, China, too, and yet for American women there are some fields in which equality hasn't yet come.” KindMayCountryStatesProblemMightLevelsUnitedCasesUnited StatesExampleFieldsHigherSouthVery GoodChinaGenderEastInequalityJapanMortalityAsiaSchoolingHigher EducationGood ExamplesAmerican WomanGender InequalityNorth AfricaSouth AsiaEast Asia Author:Amartya Sen
“Education makes us the human beings we are. It has major impacts on economic development, on social equity, gender equity. In all kinds of ways, our lives are transformed by education and security. Even if it had not one iota of effect [on] security, it would still remain in my judgment the biggest priority in the world.” IfsWorldWayHumansKindStillsSocialHuman BeingsOur LivesEconomicEffectsSecurityDevelopmentJudgmentMajorsImpactGenderPrioritiesAll KindsTransformedEquityEconomic Development Author:Amartya Sen
“Education could be a great vehicle for gender equity. It allows people to see what your rights are by reading. Quite often women, for example, may have rights that they are not in the position to actually make use of.” PeopleMayUseReadingRightsExamplePositionGenderVehicleEquity Author:Amartya Sen
“It's not enough to vent about what you don't like on social media. I would ask everyone who can, men included, to get involved in an organisation actively working for gender equality.” MenEnoughAsksSocialMediaInvolvedSocial MediaGenderGet InvolvedOrganisationGender Equality Author:Catherine Mayer
“What drives me is a sense of urgency. We live in frightening times. Progress towards gender equality and vital battles to end discrimination on grounds such as race, age, sexuality and disability are stalling and in some places, reversing. This is happening because of the collapse of trust in nearly all public institutions, and in particular in politics and media, and the inescapable feeling that the current system isn't working for most people.” PeopleEndsFeelingsAgeRaceProgressMediaParticularBattleHappeningsInstitutionsCurrentsGenderSexualityDiscriminationDisabilityCollapseFrighteningUrgencyGender EqualitySense Of UrgencyStalling Author:Catherine Mayer
“Iceland's Women's Day Off in 1975 saw 90% of Icelandic women take time off from their paid and unpaid work, an experience that not only showed women how much they contribute but turned Icelandic men into supporters of gender equality. I aim to achieve the same impact in the UK.” MenSawsAchievePaidAimImpactGenderTake TimeSupporterGender EqualityTime OffDays OffIceland Author:Catherine Mayer
“For most progressives, what happens in families is a matter of "just" women's issues and children's issues. So progressive movements have focused primarily on dismantling the top of the dominator pyramid (politics and economics) and left its foundations (domination in family, gender, and other intimate relations) in place.” ChildrenMatterHappensLeftIssuesMovementEconomicsRelationFoundationGenderFocusedIntimateProgressiveDominationPyramidsPolitics And EconomicsProgressive Movement Author:Riane Eisler
“While gender stereotypes can have negative impacts on men as well, the vast majority of structural gender inequality: socially, politically, professionally and economically, as well as the overwhelming burden of sexual violence is disproportionately borne by women.” MenWellsViolenceNegativeImpactMajorityBurdenGenderInequalityOverwhelmingStereotypeGender StereotypesGender Inequality Author:Laura Bates
“The idea that feminism is a 'battle of the sexes' about blaming all men and setting up a 'gender war' is a handy, controversial media hook. But it doesn't reflect reality.” MenIdeasWarRealitySexFeminismMediaBattleBlameGenderSettingSettingsHookControversialHandyBattle Of The Sexes Author:Laura Bates
“A huge amount of what feminists are fighting for would have major positive impact for men as well as women. Take the male suicide rate, for example. In part, the problem arises from the idea that men are tough and manly, that 'boys don't cry' and it's embarrassing for them to talk about their feelings. So men are less likely to reach out for help and support with mental health issues. But that gender stereotype, which exists alongside the converse notion that women are over-emotional, 'hysterical', or 'hormonal', is one feminists are fighting hard to debunk.” MenWellsIdeasHardHelpingFeelingsProblemFightingBoysSupportIssuesCryExampleEmotionalHugeAmountMajorsToughSuicideImpactMental HealthMalesNotionRateFeministGenderAriseReach OutStereotypeEmbarrassingManlyConversesHystericalPositive ImpactGender StereotypesHealth IssuesHelp And SupportFighting HardBoys Don't Cry Author:Laura Bates
“It's true that the gender pay gap is complicated. It's true that it is very slowly getting smaller. But that doesn't mean it doesn't exist. It would have to be a pretty HUGE conspiracy for every reputable major news outlet to report on it annually if it was a massive feminist lie.” IfsMeanLyingPayHugeMajorsNewsFeministComplicatedGenderReportsMassiveGapsConspiracyOutletsPay Gap Author:Laura Bates