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“I never felt oppressed because of my gender. When I'm writing a poem or drawing, I'm not a female; I'm an artist.”

Writing Artist Felt Female Gender Drawing Oppressed

“I felt alien my whole life but I didn't feel alien because of my gender. Other people made me aware of my gender.”

People Feels Made Whole Felt Gender Whole Life Aliens

“The issue of gender was never my biggest concern; my biggest concern was doing good work. When the feminist movement really got going, I wasn't an active part of it because I was more concerned with my own mental pursuits.”

My Own Issues Movement Concern Concerned Feminist Gender Active Pursuit Good Work Doing Good Feminist Movement

Author:Patti Smith

“I want to state upfront, unequivocally and without doubt: I do not believe that any racial, ethnic or gender group has an advantage in sound judging. I do believe that every person has an equal opportunity to be a good and wise judge, regardless of their background or life experiences.”

Want Believe Persons States Wisdom Opportunity Sound Doubt Wise Groups Judging Equal Advantage Gender Backgrounds Life Experience Equal Opportunity Ethnic Background

Author:Sonia Sotomayor

“Whether born from experience or inherent physiological or cultural differences...our gender and national origins may and will make a difference in our judging.”

May Born Differences Judging Experience Gender Making A Difference Affected Inherent Cultural Differences Physiological

Author:Sonia Sotomayor

“My hope is that I will take the good from my experiences and extrapolate them further into areas with which I am unfamiliar. I simply do not know exactly what that difference will be in my judging. But I accept there will be some based on my gender and my Latina heritage.”

Knows Differences Accepting Judging Areas Gender Heritage Unfamiliar Latina Latina Women

Author:Sonia Sotomayor

“Capitalism knows only one color: that color is green; all else is necessarily subservient to it, hence, race, gender and ethnicity cannot be considered within it.”

Knows Race Economy Color Capitalism Green Gender Libertarian Ethnicity Subservient Race Ethnicity Race And Ethnicity

Author:Thomas Sowell

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

Made Courses Teach Study Research Claims Various Dare Gender Professors Publish

Author:Thomas Sowell

“Creating whole departments of ethnic, gender, and other 'studies' was part of the price of academic peace. All too often, these 'studies' are about propaganda rather than serious education.”

Whole Study Serious Creating Gender Propaganda Department Academic

Author:Thomas Sowell

“What I do know is that traditional gender roles are very real and flipping the norm is difficult for even the strongest, funniest, smartest men.”

Knows Men Real Difficult Roles Gender Traditional Strongest Norm Gender Roles

Author:Patti Stanger

“We've begun to raise daughters more like sons... but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.”

“Success on the front of women's rights will look like a world not only with obvious advances - where no girl is denied access to education, for instance - but also one with more subtle changes in how we regard gender and gender stereotypes.”

World Looks Girl Rights Fronts Regard Obvious Gender Access Instance Subtle Denied Womens Rights Stereotype Gender Stereotypes Access To Education

Author:Adora Svitak

“I don't think people should have boundaries put on them, by themselves or society or another gender, because it's our birthright to experience life in whatever way we feel best suits us.”

People Thinking Way Feels Should Should Have Gender Boundaries Suits Birthright

Author:Hilary Swank

“People in love don't see gender, colour or religion. Or age. It's about the other person, the one that you love and who loves you. You don't think of them in terms of a label. You just go with your heart.”

People Thinking Love Heart Persons Age Term Love You Gender Labels Colour

Author:Sam Taylor-Wood

“American Idol transcends age, gender, ethnicity, everything.”

Age Gender Idols Ethnicity American Idol

Author:Carrie Underwood

“Sometimes it's not even a role that's specifically written for a woman. It could be a role written for a white man or Asian man, or Latino. If it's something that I feel I could do well, I go after it. Especially if it's nothing that has to be gender or race specific, I'm all over it.”

Ifs Men Feels Wells Sometimes White Race Roles Written Gender Over It White Man Asian Latino

Author:Gabrielle Union

“I'm not one that believes that affirmative action should be based on one's skin color or one's gender, I think it should be done based on one's need, because I think if you are from a poor white community, I think that poor white kid needs a scholarship just as badly as a poor black kid.”

Ifs Thinking Needs Should Believe Done Kids Action Black Community White Poor Color Skins Gender Scholarship Affirmative Action Affirmative Skin Color

Author:J. C. Watts

“People have evolved into something selfish, greedy and intolerant. People are unaccepting, because of religion, race, gender, sexual orientation... I've seen it in punk clubs, and I've seen it in the world.”

People World Race Clubs Gender Selfish Punk Greedy Orientation

Author:Gerard Way

“I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.”

“Whatever women do, they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult.”

“There's a gender in your brain and a gender in your body. For 99 percent of people, those things are in alignment. For transgender people, they're mismatched. That's all it is. It's not complicated, it's not a neurosis. It's a mix-up. It's a birth defect, like a cleft palate.”

People Body Brain Birth Percent Complicated Gender Your Body Defects Transgender Alignment Neurosis Palate Birth Defects

Author:Chaz Bono

“Gender is between your ears and not between your legs.”

Ears Legs Gender

Author:Chaz Bono

“As you get older it's more confusing. Suddenly, there's more pressure to fit in to your assigned gender.”

Fit Pressure Gender Confusing

Author:Chaz Bono

“I have always been interested in gender politics, so I'm not that keen on doing things that don't represent a truth about women.”

Gender

Author:Romola Garai

“I was not ladylike, nor was I manly. I was something else altogether. There were so many different ways to be beautiful.”

Way Different Beautiful Gender Different Ways Manly Ladylike

Book:A Home at the End of the World: A Novel

Source: A Home at the End of the World: A Novel

“Interviewer: What would you say to a woman in this country who assumes she is no longer oppressed, who believes women's liberation has been achieved? el Saadawi: Well I would think she is blind. Like many people who are blind to gender problems, to class problems, to international problems. She's blind to what's happening to her.”

People Thinking Believe Wells Has Beens Country Problem Class Happenings Blind Assuming International Gender Liberation Oppressed Interviewers

Author:Nawal El Saadawi

“The Statue of Liberty's gender changed nothing. It was the same here as anywhere: men and their wars.”

Men War Liberty Changed Gender Statues Statue Of Liberty

Author:Jeffrey Eugenides

“S and M is only the expression in the bedroom of an oppressive-submissive relation which can happen also in the kitchen or at the factory, can happen between people of any gender. There is obviously something titillating about these relationships, but it isn't the sexual components that makes them ugly, they're uglier elsewhere. Nothing sexual is depraved. Only cruelty is depraved, and that's another matter.”

People Matter Happens Expression Relation Ugly Gender Cruelty Kitchen Factories Elsewhere Bedroom Components Submissive Depraved

Book:The Women's Room

Source: The Women's Room

“The boys at school are so degenerate that it makes one feel pessimistic about the future of the male gender in general.”

Feels School Boys Males Gender Pessimistic Degenerates

Author:Regina Doman

“Mr. Smith yelled at the doctor, What have you done to my boy? He's not flesh and blood, he's aluminum alloy!" The doctor said gently, What I'm going to say will sound pretty wild. But you're not the father of this strange looking child. You see, there still is some question about the child's gender, but we think that its father is a microwave blender.”

Thinking Children Said Stills Done Father Sound Boys Blood Strange Doctors Gender Flesh Flesh And Blood My Boys Microwaves Aluminum Blenders

Author:Tim Burton

“Can I help you with something?" Clary turned instant traitor against her gender. "Those girls on the other side of the car are staring at you." Jace assumed an air of mellow gratification. "Of course they are," he said, "I am stunningly attractive.”

Said Helping Girl Courses Sides Air Car Gender Bones Staring Attractive Instant Jace Gratification Traitor Mellow Staring At You

Book:Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (4 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels

Source: Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (4 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels

“It's in everyone's best interest to help close the gender gap in the sciences.”

Helping Interest Gender Gaps Gender Gap

Author:Sarah Brightman

“I do not think, sir, you have any right to command me, merely because you are older than I, or because you have seen more of the world than I have; your claim to superiority depends on the use you have made of your time and experience.”

Thinking World Made Reason Use Age Women Freedom Depends Claims Equality Gender Command Womens Rights Superiority

Book:Jane Eyre

Source: Jane Eyre

“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will.”

Source: Jane Eyre

“I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.”

“Men are taught to apologize for their weaknesses, women for their strengths.”

“If I were really asked to define myself, I wouldn’t start with race; I wouldn’t start with blackness; I wouldn’t start with gender; I wouldn’t start with feminism. I would start with stripping down to what fundamentally informs my life, which is that I’m a seeker on the path. I think of feminism, and I think of anti-racist struggles as part of it. But where I stand spiritually is, steadfastly, on a path about love.”

Ifs Thinking Race Struggle Path Feminism Gender Racist Seekers Blackness Stripping Anti Racist

Author:Bell Hooks

“I find it ridiculous to assign a gender to an inanimate object incapable of disrobing and making an occasional fool of itself.”

Objects Fool Gender Ridiculous Incapable Occasional Inanimate Objects

Book:Me Talk Pretty One Day

Source: Me Talk Pretty One Day

“It was we, the people; not we, the white male citizens; nor yet we, the male citizens; but we, the whole people, who formed the Union.... Men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less”

“Every year I teach dozens of students at the University of Birmingham. Most of the students on the gender and sexuality courses are women. I guess this is because the boys don't think that gender applies to them: that it's a subject for girls.”

Thinking Years Girl Courses Boys Teach Subjects Students University Gender Sexuality Dozen Birmingham Gender Gap Gender And Sexuality

Author:Louise Brown

“Gender is the poetry each of us makes out of the language we are taught.”

Language Taught Gender Lgbt Make Out

Book:Trans liberation: beyond pink or blue

Source: Trans liberation: beyond pink or blue

“…gender is not sane. It's not sane to call a rainbow black and white.”

Black White Gender Sane Black And White Rainbow

Book:Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women and the Rest of Us

Source: Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women and the Rest of Us

“Here is the secret to surviving one of these [airplane] crashes: Be male. In a 1970 Civil Aeromedical institute study of three crashes involving emergency evacuations, the most prominent factor influencing survival was gender (followed closely by proximity to exit). Adult males were by far the most likely to get out alive. Why? Presumably because they pushed everyone else out of the way.”

Source: Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers

“I don’t think God has a gender. I don’t think God hates gays or Democrats, and I don’t think you have to be Born Again to find your way to Heaven. I believe God expects us to care for one another, even those who are different. God wants us to be good stewards of this planet, and that means not wasting or violating its resources. Most of all, it means not blowing it up. Especially not in God’s name.”

Thinking Way Want Believe Mean Different Care Hate Names I Believe Heaven Born Planets Gay Resources Democrat Gender Be Good Believe In God Born Again Stewards Blowing It Different Gods

Author:Ellen Hopkins

“For the record, this isn’t a male/female thing. It’s a people thing. You talk about men being cold...you should see women from my standpoint. We’re talking the Arctic tundra would be warmer. Believe me, you don’t want to know my vantage point on your gender. As a man, if I grabbed your breasts, I’d be arrested. Any idea how many women have felt free to grab my crotch at will? (Acheron)”

People Ifs Knows Men Want Should Believe Ideas Would Be Felt Talking Records Cold Female Males Gender Breasts Believe In Me Arrested Standpoint Arctic Vantage Point Male Female

Book:Devil May Cry

Source: Devil May Cry

“The role of gender in society is the most complicated thing I’ve ever spent a lot of time learning about, and I’ve spent a lot of time learning about quantum mechanics.”

Roles Complicated Gender Quantum Mechanic Quantum Mechanics Complicated Things

Author:Randall Munroe

“I will do comedy until the day I die: inappropriate comedy, funny comedy, gender-bending, twisting comedy, whatever comedy is out there.”

Dies Comedy Gender Inappropriate Bending

Author:Sandra Bullock

“It bothers them that instead of taking on the role of abandoned lover, I have become a happy wife. They relish seeing strong women like you and me humiliated. They cannot forgive us that we triumphed where so many others fail...Courage is a virtue appreciated in a male but considered a defect in our gender. Bold women are a threat to a world that is out of balance, in favor of men. That is why they work so hard to mistreat and destroy us.”

“People changed lots of other personal things all the time. They dyed their hair and dieted themselves to near death. They took steroids to build muscles and got breast implants and nose jobs so they'd resemble their favorite movie stars. They changed names and majors and jobs and husbands and wives. They changed religions and political parties. They moved across the country or the world -- even changed nationalities. Why was gender the one sacred thing we weren’t supposed to change? Who made that rule?”

Source: Parrotfish

“For the Jesus Revolutionaries, the answer was clear: Jesus would not be out waging "preventative" wars. Jesus would not be withholding medicine from people who could not afford it. Jesus would not cast stones at people of races, sexual orientatons, or genders other than His own. Jesus would not condone the failing, viperous, scandalplagued hierarchy of some churches. Jesus would welcome everyone to his his table. He would love them, and he would find peace.”

People War Jesus Church Answers Race Clear Failing Stones Tables Medicine Casts Gender Welcome Revolutionary Hierarchy Finding Peace Withholding

Author:David Levithan

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