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“In real life these women experienced different sides of the same sexism coin. People who didn't like Hillary called her a ballbuster. People who didn't like Sarah called her Caribou Barbie. People attempted to marginalize these women based on their gender.”

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Author:Tina Fey

“The more women help one another, the more we help ourselves. Acting like a coalition truly does produce results. Any coalition of support must also include men, many of whom care about gender inequality as much as women do.”

Men Doe Helping Care Results Acting Support Produce Gender Inequality Coalitions Gender Inequality

Author:Sheryl Sandberg

“You know?" he repeated. She smiled, so he kissed her. "You're not the Han Solo in this relationship, you know." "I'm totally the Han Solo," she whispered. It was good to hear her. It was good to remember it was Eleanor under all this new flesh. "Well, I'm not the Princess Leia," he said. "Don't get so hung up on gender roles," Eleanor said.” ... “You can be Han Solo," he said, kissing her throat. "And I'll be Boba Fett. I'll cross the sky for you.”

Source: The Rainbow Rowell Collection: Eleanor & Park, Fangirl, Landline, and Carry On

“Wraith shoved his hands in his jeans' pockets. "How long before we consider you overdue and mount a rescue party?" "Never." Reaver shrugged into his shirt. "If I don't come back, it is because I'm either dead or in a situation that's too dangerous to get me out of." "Oh," Sin said brightly-and sarcastically. "You mean like the situation Harvester is in." Seminus demons were annoying no matter what gender. "Yes. Like that." She punched him lightly in the shoulder. "Good. Glad we're clear. Try to come back soon or we'll come after you.”

Ifs Trying Mean Long Said Matter Hands Sin Party Situation Clear Dangerous No Matter What Gender Glad Shoulders Shirts Demon Pockets Annoying Rescue Jeans Overdue Wraith Reavers

Author:Larissa Ione

“We are a model country where gender equality is concerned.”

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Author:Tarja Halonen

“The connection between women's human rights, gender equality, socioeconomic development and peace is increasingly apparent.”

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Author:Mahnaz Afkhami

“If you want a strong society, it has to be inclusive. If you have to push a boulder up a hill, do you want 10 people or 100? If you weed out colour or gender, you get 10.”

People Ifs Want Strong Society Gender Hills Colour Weed Inclusion Boulders

Author:Cyndi Lauper

“One day our descendants will think it incredible that we paid so much attention to things like the amount of melanin in our skin or the shape of our eyes or our gender instead of the unique identities of each of us as complex human beings.”

“A toy has no gender and no idea of whether a girl or boy is playing with it.”

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Book:Growing up free: raising your child in the 80s

Source: Growing up free: raising your child in the 80s

“Parenting is about being competent and responsible. It's not about gender, necessarily.”

Father Dad Responsible Gender Competent Fathers Day

Author:Dan Savage

“It is my vision that we all will dedicate the next decade to achieve universal literacy and education for all children, especially for girls. More than 145 million of the world's children are deprived of education due to poverty, exploitation, slavery, gender discrimination, religious extremism, and corrupt governments. May Three Cups of Tea be a catalyst to bring the gift of literacy to each of those children who deserves a chance to go to school.”

“The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says, 'It's a girl.'”

“What everyone in the astronaut corps shares in common is not gender or ethnic background, but motivation, perseverance, and desire - the desire to participate in a voyage of discovery.”

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Author:Ellen Ochoa

“I HAVE REALIZED THAT FIGHTING FOR WOMEN'S RIGHTS HAS TOO OFTEN BECOME SYNONYMOUS WITH MAN-HATING. IF THERE IS ONE THING I KNOW FOR CERTAIN, IT IS THAT THIS HAS TO STOP.”

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Author:Emma Watson

“IT IS TIME THAT WE ALL SEE GENDER AS A SPECTRUM INSTEAD OF TWO SETS OF OPPOSING IDEALS.”

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Author:Emma Watson

“IN MY NERVOUSNESS FOR THIS SPEECH AND MY MOMENTS OF DOUBT, I'VE TOLD MYSELF FIRMLY, 'IF NOT ME, WHO? IF NOT NOW, WHEN?'”

Ifs Moments Women Work Doubt Advice Speech Female Gender Gender Equality Nervousness

Author:Emma Watson

“WHEN AT 15, MY GIRLFRIENDS STARTED DROPPING OUT OF THEIR BELOVED SPORTS TEAMS, BECAUSE THEY DIDN'T WANT TO APPEAR MUSCLE-Y, WHEN AT 18, MY MALES FRIENDS WERE UNABLE TO EXPRESS THEIR FEELINGS, I DECIDED THAT I WAS A FEMINIST.”

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Author:Emma Watson

“How can we effect change in the world when only half of it is invited or feel welcome to participate in the conversation?”

World Feels Half Effects Conversation Equality Gender Welcome Invited Gender Equality Watson Women Equality

Author:Emma Watson

“WE ARE STRUGGLING FOR A UNITING WORD BUT THE GOOD NEWS IS THAT WE HAVE A UNITING MOVEMENT.”

Struggle Movement News Gender Good News Gender Equality Uniting

Author:Emma Watson

“We want to try to galvanize as many men and boys as possible to be advocates for change.”

Men Want Trying Boys Gender Gender Equality

Author:Emma Watson

“WE NEED MORE OF THOSE AND IF YOU STILL HATE THE WORD, IT IS NOT THE WORD THAT IS IMPORTANT. IT'S THE IDEA AND THE AMBITION BEHIND IT.”

Ifs Needs Stills Important Ideas Motivational Hate Behinds Ambition Gender Gender Equality

Author:Emma Watson

“BUT MY RECENT RESEARCH HAS SHOWN ME THAT FEMINISM HAS BECOME AN UNPOPULAR WORD. WOMEN ARE CHOOSING NOT TO IDENTIFY AS FEMINISTS.”

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Author:Emma Watson

“Male, A member of the unconsidered or negligible gender. The male of the human race is commonly known to the female as Mere Man. The Genus has two varieties: good providers and bad providers.”

Men Humans Two Race Known Members Female Mere Males Gender Variety Human Race Providers

Book:The Devil's Dictionary

Source: The Devil's Dictionary

“You know, for me, the realization that two people should have the right to form a sacred union regardless of their gender was strengthened when I saw a performance of the play The Normal Heart in 1985. After feeling the love those two men had for each other, I dare anybody not to want them to get married by the end.”

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Author:Barbra Streisand

“My life has always been geared towards my career. If my life is complete in other ways then I don't mind being a 65-year-old spinster. But I don't discount love when I'm talking about not getting married. I could... it's just something I haven't wanted to do yet.”

Ifs Way Years Mind Wanted Life Is Talking Careers Havens Married Gender Getting Married Discounts Spinsters

Author:Kylie Minogue

“I don't mind what they say as long as they're not being mean.”

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Author:George Clooney

“As the tall dark and handsome male star, Carey Grant always stands for male beauty and desirability, whether in a 30s screwball, a 40s film noir, or a 50s romantic comedy. He consequently turns around the orthodox gender between the one who looks and so desires, and the one who is looked at, and so is being desired.”

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Author:Steven A. Cohen

“Homosexuality is a psychological and psychiatric disorder, there is no question about it. It is a purple menace that is threatening the proper design of gender distinctions in society.”

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Author:Charles W. Socarides

“If someone is identifying themselves based on their orientation toward a person of the same gender, then that seems to me to be a self-evident disorder.”

Ifs Persons Self Seems Gay Gender Disorder Evident Orientation Identifying

Author:Scott Lively

“If you catch them at 12 years old, which they are working very aggressively to do and you tell those children that if you have an attraction towards someone of the same gender, that means you're gay and because you're gay you need to come with us.”

Ifs Needs Years Mean Children Gay Gender Attraction

Author:Scott Lively

“Our greatest prejudice is against death. It spans age, gender and race. We spend immeasurable amounts of energy fighting an event that will eventually triumph. Though it is noble not to give in easily, the most alive people I've ever met are those who embrace their death. They love, laugh and live more fully.”

People Giving Age Death Fighting Energy Race Laughing Alive Events Acceptance Amount Mets Prejudice Embrace Gender Noble Triumph

Author:Andy Webster

“I never get bored of my wife. It's lovely.”

Wife Gender My Wife Lovely Bored

Author:Alan Titchmarsh

“I can't believe there's a website which counts down until I'm legal. It is quite sick and perverted when you think about it. These people must have a lot of time on their hands.”

People Thinking Believe I Can Hands Sick Gender Website

Author:Charlotte Church

“"Is God a Man or a Woman ?" The answer to this question is neither God is That. But if you must give God a gender, God is more female than male, for he is contained in She.”

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Author:Mata Amritanandamayi

“If someone needs to express their gender in a way that is different, that is okay, and they should not be denied healthcare. They should not be bullied. They don’t deserve to be victims of violence. … That’s what people need to understand, that it’s okay and that if you are uncomfortable with it, then you need to look at yourself.”

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Author:Laverne Cox

“If there were genders to genres, fiction would be unquestionably feminine.”

Ifs Would Be Fiction Gender Genre Feminine

Book:World Within The Word

Source: World Within The Word

“I do not wish women to have power over men; but over themselves.”

“After the events of last week, I'm appalled at the standard Australia seems to be willing to accept in regards to its own behaviour and the behaviour of our leaders. Accuse me of playing the gender card all you like, but I will not walk past it any more. You might consider joining me.”

Seems Might Lasts Past Leadership Walks Leader Accepting Week Events Willing Standards Regard Gender Cards Australia Behaviour Joining

Author:Clementine Ford

“Class, race, sexuality, gender and all other categories by which we categorize and dismiss each other need to be excavated from the inside.”

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Book:Skin: Talking About Sex, Class, and Literature

Source: Skin: Talking About Sex, Class, and Literature

“The Violence Against Women Act protects the lives of tens of thousands of domestic violence victims. But the U.S. must also support gender equality around the world, and that means acknowledging that some nations we consider to be our friends are no friends to women.”

World Mean Nations Support Violence Protect Victim Gender Around The World Domestic Violence Gender Equality Violence Against Women No Friends Stop Violence Against Women

Author:Barbara Boxer

“No country in the world can yet say they have achieved gender equality.”

World Country Feminism Gender Gender Equality

Author:Emma Watson

“We don't often talk about men being imprisoned by gender stereotypes but I can see that that they are and that when they are free, things will change for women as a natural consequence.”

Men I Can Natural Feminism Consequence Gender Stereotype Gender Stereotypes Natural Consequences Free Things

Author:Emma Watson

“Both men and women should feel free to be sensitive. Both men and women should feel free to be strong... It is time that we all perceive gender on a spectrum not as two opposing sets of ideals.”

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Author:Emma Watson

“I mean, I absolutely call myself a feminist. And by that, I mean a woman who believes that your opportunities should not be constrained by your gender, that women should be entitled to the same opportunities as men.”

Men Inspirational Should Believe Mean Motivational Opportunity Feminist Gender Entitled

Author:Ayelet Waldman

“Most men are very attached to the idea of being male, and usually experience a lot of fear and insecurity around the idea of being a man. Most women are very identified with their gender, and also experience a tremendous amount of fear and insecurity.”

Men Ideas Literature Amount Males Gender Insecurity Insecurity And Fear

Author:Andrew Cohen

“In the most basic way, writers are defined not by the stories they tell, or their politics, or their gender, or their race, but by the words they use. Writing begins with language, and it is in that initial choosing, as one sifts through the wayward lushness of our wonderful mongrel English, that choice of vocabulary and grammar and tone, the selection on the palette, that determines who's sitting at that desk. Language creates the writer's attitude toward the particular story he's decided to tell.”

Source: The Getaway Car: A Donald Westlake Nonfiction Miscellany

“And when you tell me that somebody's skin color or gender is going to determine their prospects in this world, that is turning the clock back hundreds of years. Back to a time before this nation declared that all men are created equal and endowed by their creator; not by their ancestry, not by their skin color, not by their gender, not by Congress, not by the Constitution, and not by the laws”

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Author:Alan Keyes

“The purpose of affirmative action is to give our nation a way to finally address the systemic exclusion of individuals of talent on the basis of their gender, or race from opportunities to develop, perform, achieve and contribute. Affirmative action is an effort to develop systematic approach to open the doors of education, employment, and business development opportunities to qualified individuals who happen to be members of groups that have experienced long-standing and persistent discrimination.”

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1995

“So much were employers of wage-labor unenthusiastic about proletarianization that, in addition to fostering the gender age division of labor, they also encouraged, in their employment patters and through their influence in the political arena, recognition of defined ethnic groups, seeking to link them to specific allocated roles in the labor-force, with different levels of real remuneration for their work. Ethnicity created a cultural crust which consolidated the patterns of semi-proletarian household structures.”

“I'm tough, ambitious and I know exactly what I want.”

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