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“Hillary Clinton almost got to be president. The reasons why she didn't become president had to do with bad judgments about how to handle the early caucus states, which is not a gender-specific trait.”

States Reason President Judgment Clinton Gender Handle Reason Why Traits Caucus

Author:Gail Collins

“Sarah Palin is an heir to the women's movement. She has not been constrained by gender. At no point in her life has she thought, 'I can't do that because I'm a woman.'”

I Can Movement Gender No Point Heirs Palin

Author:Gail Collins

“The history of American women is about the fight for freedom, but it's less a war against oppressive men than a struggle to straighten out the perpetually mixed message about women's role that was accepted by almost everybody of both genders.”

Men War Fighting Roles Struggle Messages Gender Accepted American Woman Fighting For Freedom Women's Roles

Author:Gail Collins

“Because of our situation, God has given us an opportunity to almost transcend our gender, which gives us a vision and sensitivity that other people don't have. They think that being white and male is going to save the world; but life is not The Lion King.”

People Thinking World Giving Life Is Opportunity Given White Situation Vision Kings Males Gender Lions Sensitivity Save The World Lion King

Author:Jason Reeves

“Why must she dress that way? I think she's confused about her gender.”

Thinking Way Dresses Gender Confused Lgbt

Author:Tim Gunn

“There is a massive gender imbalance on TV”

Tvs Gender Massive Imbalance

Author:Dawn O'Porter

“When we use stereotypes, we take in the gender, the age, the color of the skin of the person before us, and our minds respond with messages that say hostile, stupid, slow, weak. Those qualities aren't out there in the environment. They don't reflect reality.”

Mind Persons Use Reality Age Quality Environment Stupid Color Messages Weak Skins Gender Stereotype Hostile

Author:John Bargh

“Getting hit on by both genders is such a champagne problem.”

Problem Gender Champagne

Author:Naya Rivera

“Men, I would like to take this opportunity to extend your formal invitation. … Gender equality is your issue, too. … I've seen young men suffering from mental illness, unable to ask for help, for fear it would make them less of a men—or less of a man. I've seen men made fragile and insecure by a distorted sense of what constitutes male success. Men don't have the benefits of equality, either.”

Men Made Helping Young Suffering Asks Opportunity Issues Benefits Males Illness Gender Mental Illness Young Man Fragile Formal Insecure Invitations Gender Equality

Author:Emma Watson

“We want to end gender inequality, and to do this, we need everyone involved...We want to try to galvanize as many men and boys as possible to be advocates for change and we don't just want to talk about it. We want to try and make sure that it's tangible.”

Men Want Needs Trying Ends Boys Involved Gender Inequality Tangible Gender Inequality

Author:Emma Watson

“I think were struggling with trying to redefine various positions at this point in history. To allow freedom for women, freedom for men, freedom from those sharply defined gender roles.”

Thinking Men Trying Women Roles Struggle Position Various Gender Defined Gender Roles

Author:Fred Ward

“I have a lot of really wonderful friends who are of very different sexes and genders.”

Different Sex Wonderful Gender Wonderful Friends Sex And Gender

Author:Ezra Miller

“The way I approach the character isn't about being gay or straight. It's just about who you love. Gender has very little to do with it.”

Way Littles Character Gay Approach Gender Being Gay

Author:Mia Kirshner

“To me, a great love story is a great love story, and it doesn't matter what gender is involved.”

Matter Stories Involved Gender Love Story Wicked Great Love

Author:Piper Perabo

“I dont think gender is aesthetically defining for me.”

Thinking Gender Defining

Author:Suzanne Vega

“Love is pure and true; love knows no gender.”

Knows Love Is Pure Gender

Author:Tori Spelling

“I think people sometimes get the wrong impression when they're like, Oh, well, so-and-so was straight and then she was gay, and now she's straight again, you know? But it's like, how many times do I have to kiss a woman before I'm gay? Everybody wants to label people. Sometimes you just fall in love with somebody, and you're really not thinking about what gender or whatever they happen to be. It think that if I happen to fall in love with a woman, everyone's going to make a big deal out of it. But if I happen to fall in love with a man, nobody cares.”

People Ifs Thinking Knows Men Want Wells Sometimes Bigs Happens Care Fall Deals Gay Kissing Falling In Love Gender Impression Labels Big Deal Oh Well Nobody Cares Wrong Impression

Author:Lucy Liu

“When two people - regardless of gender - long to care for each other, to protect each other, to treasure each other, we should do everything we can to foster that.”

People Should Long Two Care Protect Gender Treasure

Author:Mandy Moore

“People see America through particular lenses, either their profession, their race or their gender. So the party that speaks to our racial perceptions and offers solutions to the racial difficulties which we face is the party that's going to be rewarded with our votes.”

People America Faces Speak Party Race Particular Offers Perception Solutions Vote Difficulty Gender Profession Lenses

Author:Julian Bond

“If you talk about race, it does not make you a racist. If you see distinctions between the genders, it does not make you a sexist. If you think critically about a denomination, it does not make you anti-religion. If you accept but don't celebrate homosexuality, it does not make you a homophobe.”

Ifs Thinking Doe Race Accepting Gender Celebrate Distinction Racist Homosexuality Sexist Denominations Anti Religion Homophobes

Author:Charlton Heston

“Aspiring black leaders are often asked to transcend race, even though no one ever asked, say, Hillary Clinton to transcend gender. This is a precarious race straddle that most members of the breakthrough generation seem to reject. Even the most well meaning white Obama supporters seem to take deep satisfaction in this idea. Obama, they insisted, could be raceless, a reasurringly optimistic view of America's deepest burden that ignores countless peices of evidence to the contrary.”

Source: The Breakthrough: Politics and Race in the Age of Obama

“I think feminism's a bit misinterpreted. It was about casting off all gender roles. There's nothing wrong with a man holding a door open for a girl. But we sort of threw away all the rules, so everybody's confused. And dating becomes a sloppy, uncomfortable, unpleasant thing.”

Thinking Men Girl Bits Roles Doors Feminism Dating Gender Uncomfortable Confused Casting Gender Roles Sloppy Misinterpreted Casting Off

Author:Zosia Mamet

“Sisterhood cannot be assumed on the basis of gender; it must be forged in concrete historical and political practice and analysis”

Political Practice Bases Historical Gender Analysis Concrete Sisterhood Forged

Book:Feminism Without Borders: Decolonizing Theory, Practicing Solidarity

Source: Feminism Without Borders: Decolonizing Theory, Practicing Solidarity

“I was assigned male at birth, is the way I like to put it, because I think... we're born who we are... and the gender thing is something someone imposes on you. And so, I was assigned male at birth, but I always felt like I was a girl.”

Thinking Way Girl Felt Born Birth Males Gender Who We Are

Author:Laverne Cox

“I do a lot with characters' sense of identity. I also like challenging stereotypes, gender roles, things like that. Give me a stereotype or a genre expectation and the first thing I want to do is stand it on its head. In the Nightrunner books I wanted to see if I could create a believable gay hero, one who wasn't someone's sidekick or a victim.”

Ifs Want Giving Firsts Book Character Wanted Challenges Roles Identity Hero Gay Expectations Give Me Victim Gender Genre If I Could Stereotype Gender Roles Believable Sidekicks

Author:Lynn Flewelling

“As a gender variant visual artist I access 'technologies of gender' in order to amplify rather than erase the hermaphroditic traces of my body. I name myself. A gender abolitionist. A part time gender terrorist. An intentional mutation and intersex by design, (as opposed to diagnosis), in order to distinguish my journey from the thousands of intersex individuals who have had their 'ambiguous' bodies mutilated and disfigured in a misguided attempt at 'normalization'. I believe in crossing the line as many times as it takes to build a bridge we can all walk across.”

“True equality means holding everyone accountable in the same way, regardless of race, gender, faith, ethnicity - or political ideology.”

Way Mean Political Race Gender Ideology Ethnicity Political Ideology Race Ethnicity Race And Ethnicity True Equality

Author:Monica Crowley

“Feminism involves so much more than gender equality and it involves so much more than gender. Feminism must involve consciousness of capitalism (I mean the feminism that I relate to, and there are multiple feminisms, right). So it has to involve a consciousness of capitalism and racism and colonialism and post-colonialities, and ability and more genders than we can even imagine and more sexualities than we ever thought we could name.”

Mean Names Ability Consciousness Imagine Feminism Racism Capitalism Gender Sexuality Posts Relate Colonialism Multiple Gender Equality

Author:Angela Davis

“We have to teach our boys the rules of equality and respect, so that as they grow up gender equality becomes a natural way of life. And we have to teach our girls that they can reach as high as humanly possible.”

Way Girl Grows Natural Inspiring Boys Teach Growing Up Gender Gender Equality

Author:Beyonce Knowles

“Yes, there's a problem with gender as it is today, and we must fix it, we must do better.”

Problem Today Gender

Author:Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“Whatever the gender of the participants, all pornography including male-male gay pornography is an imitation of the male-female, conqueror-victim paradigm, and almost all of it actually portrays or implies enslaved women and master.”

Masters Gay Female Victim Males Including Gender Imitation Pornography Paradigm Participants Conqueror Male Female

Author:Gloria Steinem

“The power I exert on the court depends on the power of the power of my arguments, not my gender”

Depends Argument Court Gender

Author:Sandra Day O'Connor

“Women are supposed to be very calm generally: but women feel just as men feel; they need exercise for their faculties, and a field for their efforts as much as their brothers do; they suffer from too rigid a restraint, too absolute a stagnation, precisely as men would suffer; and it is narrow-minded in their more privileged fellow-creatures to say that they ought to confine themselves to making puddings and knitting stockings, to playing on the piano and embroidering bags.”

Source: Jane Eyre

“Countries with more gender equality have better economic growth. Companies with more women leaders perform better. Peace agreements that include women are more durable. Parliaments with more women enact more legislation on key social issues such as health, education, anti-discrimination and child support. The evidence is clear: equality for women means progress for all.”

“True peace must be anchored in justice and an unwavering commitment to universal rights for all humans, regardless of ethnicity, religion, gender, national origin or any other identity attribute.”

Humans Justice Rights Identity Commitment Universal Gender Attributes Ethnicity Unwavering True Peace Ethnic Identity

Author:Desmond Tutu

“Women will not simply be mainstreamed into the polluted stream. Women are changing the stream, making it clean and green and safe for all - every gender, race, creed, sexual orientation, age, and ability.”

Age Women Ability Race Safe Green Clean Gender Streams Creeds Womens Rights Orientation Women Rights Women Right

Author:Bella Abzug

“Adult women, all of us, have to come to grips with how we have been affected by gender norms, and how we have been silenced. We have to help our daughters. Understanding it within ourselves and helping our young girls stand up for themselves is one way.”

Way Has Beens Helping Young Girl Understanding Women Daughter Adults Gender One Way Affected Womens Rights Norm Our Daughter

Author:Jane Fonda

“We must focus on people as people, regardless of race, creed, color or gender.”

People Race Focus Color Judging Gender Creeds

Author:Mills Lane

“People who don't have gender dysphoria aren't going to catch it by watching me dance on television.”

People Inspirational Television Dance Gender

Author:Chaz Bono

“He leaned forward and opened his door, politely standing aside to let me by before following me in. There are some advantages to dating a guy from another era, I thought. Though I am a big believer in gender equality, chivalry scores high in my book.”

Men Book Bigs Guy Doors Advantage Standing Let Me Dating Following Gender Believer Eras Score Gender Equality Chivalry

Author:Amy Plum

“In our current society, it is considered a weakness to be female and a treason to protest this. Highlighting inequality results in aggressive insults and threats, all of which are propped up by the repeated narrative now that women are 'playing the gender card'. And this is the final insult. That of all the unfair things associated with women - the violence and insults, the financial oppression, the very undermining of our worth as human beings - it is the acknowledgement of these inequalities that gives us some kind of unfair advantage over the men who benefit from them.”

“Men have influenced my activism and feminism both positively and negatively. As most gender differences are social, not genetic, we still need to change what we do and what we expect of each other... The potential exists for societies where men and women do not have to conform to unwanted stereotypes.”

Men Needs Stills Social Women Differences Feminism Men And Women Gender Activism Stereotype Conform Positively Need A Change Unwanted Gender Differences

Author:Eva Cox

“We live in a world where there are a hell of a lot of new inputs that need to be factored in to your business. It used to be just about your employees and your customers. Now there are all the issues about global warming, about sustainability, about ethics and now about gender and the distribution of wealth.”

World Needs Used Wealth Hell Issues Ethics Gender Customers Used To Be Employee Global Warming Sustainability Distribution Input Distribution Of Wealth

Author:Stuart Rose

“All human beings bear God's image and must be respected for what each person is. Therefore, no external description of one's being, whether based on race, ethnicity, gender or sexual orientation, can properly be used as the basis for either rejection or discrimination.”

Humans Persons Used Human Beings Race Bears Respect Bases Gender Tolerance Discrimination Rejection Description Orientation Ethnicity Race Ethnicity Race And Ethnicity

Author:John Shelby Spong

“It is long past time to eliminate bigotry in the workplace and to ensure equal opportunity for all Americans. It is time to make clear that lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender Americans are first class citizens. They are full and welcome members of our American family and they deserve the same civil rights protections as all other Americans. It is time for us to prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity. Such discrimination is wrong and should not be tolerated.”

“We have a lot more work to do in our common struggle against bigotry and discrimination. I say "common struggle" because I believe very strongly that all forms of bigotry and discrimination are equally wrong and should be opposed by right-thinking Americans everywhere. Freedom from discrimination based on sexual orientation is surely a fundamental human right in any great democracy, as much as freedom from racial, religious, gender, or ethnic discrimination.”

Thinking Should Believe Humans Form I Believe Religious Common Struggle Democracy Gay Fundamentals Gender Discrimination Bigotry Very Strong Orientation Common Struggle

Author:Coretta Scott King

“When today's young woman says she isn't a feminist what she means is she isn't a lesbian and she doesn't hate men, she likes to wear make-up and she enjoys a laugh. In which she is no different from many an early feminist.”

Men Mean Different Today Young Hate Enjoy Laughing Feminist Gender Likes Young Women Hate Me

Author:Fay Weldon

“I see the effects of sexual and gender liberation all around me, just like you do, but I don't have a sense of being in the majority.”

Effects Like You Majority Gender Liberation

Author:Susie Bright

“Now, my oral illustration be like clitoral stimulation to the female gender Ain't nothin' better Let me know when it's wet enough to enter”

Knows Enough Female Let Me Hip Hop Gender Wet Illustration Stimulation

Author:Andre Benjamin

“So when I was about 13 or 14, I realized I was attracted to women and then made the assumption that I was a lesbian, and didn't realize that that wasn't the case. It was the fact that I was a man and a heterosexual man. The issue wasn't my sexual orientation, but rather my gender identity.”

Men Made Facts Realizing Cases Issues Identity Gender I Realized Assumption Lgbt Orientation Gender Identity

Author:Chaz Bono

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