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“Distinctly American poetry is usually written in the context of one's geographic landscape, sometimes out of one's cultural myths, and often with reference to gender and race or ethnic origins.”

Sometimes Race Written Gender Myth Landscape Poetry Is American Poetry

Author:Diane Wakoski

“In the theory of gender I began from zero. There is no masculine power or privilege I did not covet. But slowly, step by step, decade by decade, I was forced to acknowledge that even a woman of abnormal will cannot escape her hormonal identity.”

Steps Identity Theory Privilege Gender Decades Acknowledge Zero Masculine Abnormal

Book:Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays

Source: Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays

“There’s no such thing as sexism against men. That's because sexism is prejudice + power. Men are the dominant gender with power in society.”

Men Prejudice Gender Sexism Dominant Power Man

Author:Anita Sarkeesian

“The problem with gender is that it prescribes how we should be, rather than recognising how we are.”

Should Problem Gender

Author:Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“Your gender identity is who you are. Sexual identity is who you bounce that off of.”

Identity Who You Are Gender Bounce Gender Identity

Author:Andrew Solomon

“You just wish sometimes that people would treat you like a human being rather than seeing your gender first and who you are second.”

People Firsts Humans Sometimes Wish Human Beings Seeing Treats Who You Are Gender

Author:Frances O'Grady

“Gender, race, ethnicity - these are all morally neutral. But homosexuality is - involves voluntary sexual conduct with serious public health, social, sociological implications. It's not irrational to discriminate on that basis.”

Social Race Serious Bases Gender Irrational Homosexuality Implications Public Health Ethnicity Sociological Race Ethnicity

Author:Scott Lively

“Scientists who do deny their politics—who claim to be objective and unemotional about gender while living in a world where even boats and automobiles are identified by sex—are fooling both themselves and the public at large.”

World Sex Scientist Claims Deny Gender Objectives Boat Automobile Unemotional

Book:Myths of Gender: Biological Theories about Women and Men

Source: Myths of Gender: Biological Theories about Women and Men

“To Forget Venice is a tour de force of ventriloquism. Elegant, contemporary, and wry, the voice at its center is also capable of disarming flights of imagination as it enters and inhabits other lives across time and gender. The glittering, fetid city emerges as a complex metaphor for the human heart’s simultaneous tenderness and capacity for cruelty, its ‘silver glow / a local specialty: filth / disguised as ornament.’ This Venice is unforgettable.”

“Gender equality and empowerment of women is key to the success of the Millennium Development Goals. Not only as a specific target, but for the goals in general. Women bear a heavier burden of the world's poverty than men, because of the discrimination they face in education, health care, employment and control of assets.”

“We put a gender lens on our whole value chain.”

Whole Values Inspiring Economic Gender Chains Lenses

Author:Paul Polman

“So why, after prior successes, did Obama's race/class/gender attack finally sputter out like the French at Waterloo?”

Race Class Gender Notable Waterloo

Author:Victor Davis Hanson

“We have a history of gender and racial bias on our court that continues to undermine the system. Excluding individuals based on race is antagonistic to the pursuit of justice.”

Individual Justice Race Prejudice Court Gender Pursuit Bias Pursuit Of Justice Racial Bias

Author:Anita Hill

“I am much more open about categories of gender, and my feminism has been about women's safety from violence, increased literacy, decreased poverty and more equality.”

Has Beens Poverty Violence Feminism Safety Gender Categories Literacy Decrease Butlers

Book:What Does a Jew Want?: On Binationalism and Other Specters

Source: What Does a Jew Want?: On Binationalism and Other Specters

“What's great is that because math is such a universal language, really, our fans come in all shapes and sizes, all ages and genders and races and backgrounds and cultures.”

Age Culture Language Race Fans Shapes Universal Size Gender Math Backgrounds Universal Language

Author:David Krumholtz

“Recently, John and I got to go to Selma and perform it on the same bridge that Martin Luther King walked over. Once a landmark of a divided nation, the spirit of this bridge now for all people regardless of race, gender, sexual orientation or social status. This bridge was built on hope and welded with compassion. Common”

People Spirit Nations Social Common Race Compassion Kings Built Gender Bridges Divided Oscars Luther Orientation Landmarks Social Status

Author:John Legend

“You think intercourse is a private act; it's not, it's a social act. Men are sexually predatory in life; and women are sexually manipulative. When two individuals come together and leave their gender outside the bedroom door, then they make love.”

Thinking Men Two Together Individual Social Doors Gender Bedroom Making Love Intercourse Sexually Manipulative Predatory

Author:Andrea Dworkin

“A family is a family not because of gender but because of values, like commitment, trust and love.”

Values Commitment And Love Gender Cute Love And Trust

Author:Gray Davis

“People have foolishly mistaken equality for sameness. Equality of the genders means that both have equal value and worth, and one is not better than the other. But it doesn't mean we're all exactly the same. And many of us who still believe in gender separation say, 'Vive la difference!”

People Believe Mean Stills Values Differences Equal Gender Separation Mistaken Sameness

Author:Mike Huckabee

“These are my words; this is their world, a world in which we can wear our gender on our sleeves, unabashedly, as we go about the business of thinking out loud.”

Thinking World Gender Loud Sleeves

Book:Thinking Out Loud: On the Personal, the Political, the Public and the Private

Source: Thinking Out Loud: On the Personal, the Political, the Public and the Private

“The basic Buddhist stand on the question of equality between the genders is age-old. At the highest tantric levels, at the highest esoteric level, you must respect women: every woman.”

Age Levels Highest Gender Buddhist Esoteric Respect Women

Author:Dalai Lama

“To maintain their power, dominant groups create and maintain a popular system of 'commonsense' ideas that support their right to rule. In the United States, hegemonic ideologies concerning race, class, gender, sexuality, and nation are often so pervasive that it is difficult to conceptualize alternatives to them, let alone ways of resisting the social practices that they justify.”

Source: Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment

“A belief in feminism is a belief in personal freedom - the freedom to live a life free of fear of violence, to select a fulfilling career and be compensated fairly, to choose when to start a family, to marry whom you love. I want everyone, regardless of gender, to live a life free of restriction or fear, able to pursue their own personal brand of happiness and fulfillment.”

Want Able Belief Careers Violence Feminism Gender Pursue Brands Fulfillment Fulfilling Restriction Select Personal Freedom

Author:Aisha Tyler

“How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!”

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Author:Maya Angelou

“We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races, even alone in genders.”

Thinking Race Groups Ignorance Diversity Survival Unity Gender Patches Being Alone

Author:Maya Angelou

“Whether we're talking about race or gender or class, popular culture is where the pedagogy is, it's where the learning is.”

Culture Race Talking Class Gender Popular Culture Pedagogy

Author:Bell Hooks

“I believe profoundly in the possibilities of democracy, but democracy needs to be emancipated from capitalism. As long as we inhabit a capitalist democracy, a future of racial equality, gender equality, economic equality will elude us.”

Needs Believe Long I Believe Democracy Economic Possibility Capitalism Gender Capitalist Gender Equality Elude Elude Us Economic Equality Racial Equality

Author:Angela Davis

“I am not sure gender ever won't be an issue in comedy, because I think that women do have different priorities in some respects.”

Thinking Different Issues Comedy Gender Priorities Not Sure

Author:Jenny Eclair

“Each American must remember and help America remember that the fellowship of human beings is more important than the fellowship of race and class and gender in a democratic society.”

Humans Important Helping America Remember Human Beings Race Class Democratic Gender Fellowship Democratic Society

Author:Marian Wright Edelman

“My male counterpart will get paid ten times more than me - 10 times. Not double, but 10 times for the same job. We only have this much left for the female actress. I mean, there’s two genders on this Earth. Both are compelling, interesting, diverse, wonderful in all their own separate ways. And yet there’s an influx of male roles and there's just not for women.”

Way Mean Two Earth Jobs Left Interesting Roles Wonderful Ten Female Paid Males Gender Actresses Diverse Compelling Counterparts Separate Ways

Author:Hilary Swank

“Every woman I know, particularly the senior ones, has been called too aggressive at work. We know in gender blind studies that men are more aggressive in their offices than women. We know that. Yet we're busy telling all the women that they're too aggressive. That's the issue.”

Knows Men Has Beens Women Work Careers Study Issues Office Blind Busy Gender Aggressive Senior Leaning In Female Leaders

Author:Sheryl Sandberg

“Ah, well, do I wish that we lived in a world where gender didn't figure so prominently? Of course. Do I even think about myself as a woman when I go to make art? Of course not.”

Thinking World Wells Art Courses Wish Figures Gender Figure Skating

Author:Judy Chicago

“I didn't want to be discriminated against because of my gender and status. I promised myself I was never going to be treated as a second-class citizen.”

Want House Class Citizens Gender Treated Second Class Citizens

Author:Bianca Jagger

“There is a clear difference between sexist parody and parody of sexism. Sexist parody encourages the players to mock and trivialize gender issues while parody of sexism disrupts the status quo and undermines regressive gender conventions.”

Differences Issues Clear Player Gender Sexism Conventions Status Quo Mock Parody Sexist Gender Issues

Author:Anita Sarkeesian

“I love women. They're the best thing ever created. If they want to be like men and come down to our level, that's fine.”

“Gender equality must become a lived reality.”

Reality Gender Gender Equality

Author:Michelle Bachelet

“People fall in love with a person, not a gender or an age.”

People Persons Fall Falling In Love Gender

Author:Darren Criss

“This rule of silence is upheld when the culture refuses everyone easy access even to the word “patriarchy.” Most children do not learn what to call this system of institutionaliz ed gender roles, so rarely do we name it in everyday speech. This silence promotes denial. And how can we organize to challenge and change a system that cannot be named?”

Children Culture Names Easy Challenges Silence Roles Speech Everyday Refuse Gender Access Denial Organize Patriarchy Silence Is Gender Roles Easy Access

Book:The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love

Source: The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love

“We are born as who we are, the gender thing is something that is imposed on you.”

Born Gender Who We Are

Author:Laverne Cox

“What worries me is that the debate about gender differences still seems to polarize nature vs. nurture, with some in the social sciences and humanities wanting to assert that biology plays no role at all, apparently unaware of the scientific evidence to the contrary”

Stills Play Seems Humanity Social Differences Roles Worry Evidence Gender Contrary Debate Biology Nurture Social Science Scientific Evidence Gender Differences Nature Vs Nurture

Author:Simon Baron-Cohen

“To be connected with the church is to be associated with scoundrels, warmongers, fakes, child-molesters, murderers, adulterers, and hypocrites of every description. It also, at the same time, identifies you with saints and the finest persons of heroic soul within every time, country, race, and gender. To be a member of the church is to carry the mantle of both the worst sin and the finest heroism of soul . . . because the church always looks exactly as it looked at the original crucifixion, God hung among thieves.”

“There's no telling from poem to poem where this brilliant 'conversation' about maleness and gender will lead---there are poems about husbands and wives, parents and children, Elvis, Apollo, Walt Whitman, rhythms of its politics. Manthology is a remarkably honest and enormously heartening collection.”

Children Parent Wife Honest Husband Conversation Gender Brilliant Rhythm Collections Apollo Husband And Wife Walt Children And Parents Maleness

Author:Nancy Eimers

“There is definitely a way in which women are raised to be less proactive, less business-oriented, and less willing to jump into creative no man's land. I think media has more of an influence on how we perceive gender identity than anything else.”

Thinking Men Way Creative Influence Land Media Identity Willing Raised Gender Perceive Proactive Gender Identity

Author:Felicia Day

“That you can be whatever you want to be, whoever you want to be, regardless of your gender.”

Want Gender

Author:Joseph Gordon-Levitt

“Being a true bad ass has no weight or gender requirement - just 100% commitment to greatness.”

Greatness Commitment Weight Gender Ass Requirements Bad Ass

Author:Dwayne Johnson

“I read the books and I really, really wanted to play the part. I started kundalini yoga, kickboxing and running, and completely changed my diet. I felt I wanted to undergo what was necessary for the part. I love a challenge. And I love defying limitation, gender stereotypes and people’s expectations of me as an actress.”

People Book Play Running Wanted Felt Challenges Changed Expectations Yoga Gender Actresses Limitation Diets Stereotype Gender Stereotypes Defying Kickboxing

Author:Gwendoline Christie

“I think you pay people based on their work and not based on gender. It's that simple.”

People Thinking Simple Pay Gender

Author:Stana Katic

“Gender equality is more than a goal in itself. It is a precondition for meeting the challenge of reducing poverty, promoting sustainable development and building good governance.”

“Our culture is in deep trouble, and at the heart of its trouble is its loss of a vision for manhood. If its difficult for you and me as adult males to maintain our masculine balance in this gender-neutral culture, imagine what it must be like for our sons, who are growing up in an increasingly feminized world.”

Ifs World Heart Culture Difficult Loss Vision Growing Up Growing Imagine Trouble Son Balance Adults Males Gender Manhood Masculine

Author:Stu Weber

“Gender data is important. If girls don’t have a birth certificate, how do we know how many are marrying as children?”

Ifs Knows Children Important Girl Know How Birth Gender Data Marrying Certificates Birth Certificate

Author:Kathy Calvin

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