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“To me gender is not physical at all, but is altogether insubstantial. It is soul, perhaps, it is talent, it is taste, it is environment, it is how one feels, it is light and shade, it is inner music.”

Feels Soul Light Environment Talent Taste Gender Shade

Book:Conundrum

Source: Conundrum

“Some people ask: "Why the word feminist? Why not just say you are a believer in human rights, or something like that?" Because that would be dishonest. Feminism is, of course, part of human rights in general-but to choose to use the vague expression human rights is to deny the specific and particular problem of gender. It would be a way of pretending that it was not women who have, for centuries, been excluded. It would be a way of denying that the problem of gender targets women.”

Source: We Should All Be Feminists

“Gender equality, historically has been predominantly a women's movement for women. But I think the impact of gender inequality and how it's affecting men hasn't really been addressed.”

Thinking Men Has Beens Inspiring Movement Impact Gender Inequality Gender Equality Gender Inequality

Author:Emma Watson

“People associate feminism with hate - with man hate - and that's really negative. I don't think that's what feminism is about at all - it's really positive. I think that's why women became reluctant to use the word.”

People Thinking Men Use Hate Inspiring Feminism Negative Gender Associates Reluctant Gender Equality Really Positive

Author:Emma Watson

“Feminism is equality: politically; culturally; socially; economically. That's it, that simple.”

Simple Inspiring Feminism Gender Gender Equality

Author:Emma Watson

“Men think it's a women's word. But what it means is that you believe in equality, and if you stand for equality, then you're a feminist. Sorry to tell you. You're a feminist. You're a feminist. That's it.”

Ifs Thinking Men Believe Mean Inspiring Sorry Feminist Gender Gender Equality

Author:Emma Watson

“And think of how we challenged the idea of a male dominated Parliament with All-Women shortlists and made the cause of gender equality central to our government. We were right to do so.”

Thinking Made Ideas Government Causes Males Equality Gender Parliament Glowing Gender Equality

Author:Ed Miliband

“We need to stop buying into the myth about gender equality. It isn't a reality yet. Today, women make up half of the U.S. workforce, but the average working woman earns only 77 percent of what the average working man makes. But unless women and men both say this is unacceptable, things will not change.”

Men Needs Reality Today Half Equal Percent Men And Women Average Gender Myth Buying Gender Equality Workforce Equal Pay Working Man Working Women

Author:Beyonce Knowles

“Equal pay is not yet equal. A woman makes $0.77 on a dollar and women of color make $0.67... We feel so passionately about this because we are not only running for office, but we each, in our own way, have lived it. We have seen it. We have understood the pain and the injustice that has come because of race, because of gender. And it's imperative that... we make it very clear that each of us will address these issues.”

Way Feels Running Pain Pay Race Issues Clear Color Equal Office Understood Dollars Injustice Gender Addresses Cents Imperatives Equal Pay Running For Office

Author:Hillary Clinton

“Hopefully, 21 years later, Judge Roberts possesses an openness with respect to issues of gender-based wage discrimination.”

Years Issues Judging Respect Gender Discrimination Hopefully Openness

Author:Olympia Snowe

“We live in an uncertain world and we want to believe that what a man is and what a woman is-I know that. And people don't want to critically interrogate the world around them. Whenever I'm afraid of something or I'm threatened by something, it's because it brings up some sort of insecurity in me. I think the reality is that most of us are insecure about our gender. They think, 'Okay, if there's this trans person over here, then what does that make me?”

People Ifs Thinking Knows Men World Want Believe Persons Doe Reality Pride Gay Okay Gender Insecurity Uncertain Threatened Insecure Trans Gay Pride

Author:Laverne Cox

“The road, more than simply a system of regulations and designs, is a place where many millions of us, with only loose parameters for how to behave, are thrown together daily in a kind of massive petri dish in which all kinds of uncharted, little-understood dynamics are at work. There is no other place where so many people from different walks of life-different ages, races, classes, religions, genders, political preferences, lifestyle choices, levels of psychological stability-mingle so freely.”

Source: Traffic

“A good play is a good play. If you want to chalk up your rejection letters to the fact that you're a woman, that's your choice. But often you get a rejection letter because your play isn't ready. Or the time isn't ready for your play. And that has nothing to do with gender.”

Ifs Want Play Facts Choices Ready Letters Gender Crafts Rejection Chalk Rejection Letters

Author:Jane Anderson

“Find something you're passionate about and just love. Passion is really gender neutralizing.”

Passion Passionate Gender Love Passion

Author:Marissa Mayer

“And I thought, you know, a little gender confusion makes a better person. A little adversity in life at an early age. It's character building.”

Knows Littles Persons Character Age Building Adversity Gender Confusion Better Person Character Building Adversity In Life

Author:Lesley Gore

“I did not know that 'poetess' was an insult, and that I myself would some day be called one. I did not know that to be told I had transcended my gender would be considered a compliment. I didn't know — yet — that black was compulsory. All of that was in the future. When I was sixteen, it was simple. Poetry existed; therefore it could be written; and nobody had told me — yet — the many, many reasons why it could not be written by me.”

Knows Reason Would Be Black Simple Written Gender Reason Why Insult Compliment Sixteen Compulsory

Author:Margaret Atwood

“Until we as a gender refuse to wear any shoe that would be uncomfortable to walk a mile in, we’re perfectly screwed.”

Would Be Walks Shoes Refuse Gender Miles Uncomfortable

Author:Cheryl Strayed

“The amount of gender violence that I experience is absolutely extraordinary. And a significant part of my day today will be spent filing police reports at home about gender violence that's directed at me in social media.”

Home Today Social Violence Media Amount Police Extraordinary Social Media Gender Significant Reports Filing

Author:Ashley Judd

“It's tragic that you can define a whole movement in music by gender alone. People are like, 'Oh, look, another quirky girl.'”

People Looks Whole Girl Movement Gender Tragic Quirky

Author:Paloma Faith

“You know, my mum's always encouraged me and never made my gender an issue, I guess. She brought me up to believe in equality, as opposed to feminism or sexism - so it just meant that my gender was not relevant to what I was capable of achieving.”

Knows Believe Made Issues Feminism Achieve Capable Gender Sexism Relevant Mum

Author:Paloma Faith

“Then there’s Isabel Leonard, as the male character, Sesto. Her voice has the rich, fragrant depth of sandalwood and she looks so sublimely boyish yet fulsomely feminine that she combines the best of both genders. I adored her.”

Looks Character Voice Rich Depth Males Gender Feminine Boyish Sandalwood

Author:Richard Ouzounian

“Finally I want to say this: If you are a kid and you are out there and you are chubby and not so cute and nerdy and shy and invisible and in pain, whatever your race, whatever your gender, whatever your sexual orientation, I’m standing here to tell you: You are not alone. Your tribe of people, they are out there in the world. Waiting for you.”

People Ifs World Want Kids Pain Waiting Race Standing Gender Invisible Cute Shy Tribes Not Alone Orientation Waiting For You Nerdy

Book:Year of Yes: How to Dance It Out, Stand In the Sun and Be Your Own Person

Source: Year of Yes: How to Dance It Out, Stand In the Sun and Be Your Own Person

“It’s very strange how electronic music formatted itself and forgot that its roots are about the surprise, freedom, and the acceptance of every race, gender, and style of music into this big party.”

Bigs Party Race Style Acceptance Strange Roots Surprise Gender Electronic Music

Author:Thomas Bangalter

“In distinguishing between Islamic teachings and social taboos, we must remember that Islam forbids injustice; Injustice against people, against nations, against women. It shuns race, color, and gender as a basis of distinction amongst fellowmen. It enshrines piety as the sole criteria for judging humankind.”

People Remember Nations Social Race Teaching Color Judging Bases Islam Injustice Gender Islamic Distinction Humankind Sole Criteria Taboo Piety Social Taboos

Book:Speeches and Statements: Oct. 1993-Nov. 1996

Source: Speeches and Statements: Oct. 1993-Nov. 1996

“I dont see things with gender, race and culture”

Culture Race Gender

Author:Rad Hourani

“At the end of the day, both men and women who become CEOs have showed tenacity and hard work to succeed in their careers. It takes not just skills but also extreme dedication and commitment. And regardless of gender, CEOs are measured by the same criteria - the growth and success of the business.”

Men Ends Hard Growth Careers Hard Work Succeed Skills Men And Women Commitment Extremes Gender The End Of The Day Dedication Ceo Criteria Tenacity

Author:Susan Wojcicki

“A daughter is a mother's gender partner, her closest ally in the family confederacy, an extension of herself. -Author Unknown As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.”

Years Looks Long Mother Ten Daughter Gender Partners Satisfied My Daughter Allies Closest Extensions Mother Daughter Mother And Daughter Mother And Daughter Relationship Young Daughter

Author:Oscar Wilde

“Bean-counting government bureaucrats are free to take race, ethnicity and gender into account when doling out public funds to non-white-male contractors. But God help law enforcement officers, air marshals and border agents who try to use those same factors to combat terrorism and protect American lives.”

“The finest people marry the two sexes in their own person.”

People Persons Two Sex Gender Finest Masculinity

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)

“From the moment we are born, the world tends to have a container already built for us to fit inside: A social security number, a gender, a race, a profession or an I.Q. I ponder if we are more defined by the container we are in, rather than what we are inside. Would we recognize ourselves if we could expand beyond our bodies? Would we still be able to exist if we were authentically un-contained?”

Ifs World Stills Moments Body Able Social Born Numbers Race Security Fit Built Gender Profession Defined Social Security Pondering Containers

Author:Paige Bradley

“We need to guarantee equal rights and civil rights and say that, here in America, workers have the right to organize - women have the right to choose - and justice belongs to everyone regardless of race or gender or sexual orientation.”

Needs America Justice Race Rights Equal Workers Gender Civil Rights Guarantees Organize Equal Rights Orientation

Author:John F. Kerry

“Different though the sexes are, they inter-mix. In every human being a vacillation from one sex to the other takes place, and often it is only the clothes that keep the male or female likeness, while underneath the sex is very opposite of what it is above.”

Humans Different Sex Human Beings Clothes Female Opposites Males Gender Vacillation

Book:Orlando: A Biography

Source: Orlando: A Biography

“The social order of things has demanded an emphasis on the differences between gender that do not in my opinion in fact exist. I’m not going to go around putting pronouns on everything. Things are often deeply compromised by the set of assumptions you bring to the world, which is this black or white, this male or female.”

World Facts Order Social Black Differences White Opinion Female Males Gender Assumption Emphasis Social Order Black Or White Pronouns

Author:Roni Horn

“Being a lady is an attitude.”

Funny Women Attitude Gender Being A Lady

Author:Chuck Woolery

“I am still bowled over by this great young adult novel by David Levithan called 'Every Day,' which is about a character with no gender or body who wakes up every day in the body of a different person. It's a really impressive execution of a really great premise.”

Persons Stills Different Character Body Young Novel Adults Wake Up Young Adult Gender Execution Really Great Impressive Premises

Author:John Green

“It's difficult to write a book where a character is on virtually every page of the book but you cannot refer to his or her gender. It gets rid of every his, her, she and he.”

Writing Book Character Difficult Pages Gender

Author:William Least Heat-Moon

“So few grown women like their lives.”

Gender Grown Women

Author:Katharine Graham

“Studies have been done showing that there really are gender differences, that women do bring more congeniality and compromise to the table.”

Has Beens Done Differences Study Tables Gender Compromise Gender Differences Congeniality

Author:Kitty Kelley

“If someone believes they are limited by their gender, race or background, they will become more limited.”

Ifs Believe Race Gender Backgrounds Powerful Women

Author:Carly Fiorina

“Women hear rhythm differently than men.”

Men Gender Rhythm

Author:Elvis Costello

“What fiction offers us is an intimacy shorn of the messy contingencies of human existence - gender, race, class or age. Those moments of transcendence when we exclaim "You know exactly what I mean!" depend for much of their force on the anonymous character of the intimacy between writer and reader.”

Knows Humans Mean Moments Character Age Force Race Existence Fiction Class Depends Reader Offers Gender Intimacy Transcendence Messy Human Existence Contingency

Author:Will Self

“The men resent a woman getting any honour in what they consider is essentially their field. Men painters mostly despise women painters. So I have decided to stop squirming, to throw any honour in with Canada and women.”

Men Fields He Man Decided Gender Painter Canada Honour Despise Resent

Book:Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr

Source: Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr

“If you fall in love with someone gay and you're the opposite gender, it's not going to work.”

Ifs Fall Gay Opposites Falling In Love Gender Going To Work

Author:Rosie O'Donnell

“Gender based violence anywhere is a threat to peace and security everywhere.”

Violence Security Threat Gender Peace And Security

Author:John F. Kerry

“Men were only made into 'men' with great difficulty even in primitive society: the male is not naturally 'a man' any more than the woman. He has to be propped up into that position with some ingenuity, and is always likely to collapse.”

Men Made Position Difficulty Males Gender Collapse Primitive Ingenuity

Book:The Essential Wyndham Lewis: An Introduction to His Work

Source: The Essential Wyndham Lewis: An Introduction to His Work

“We all have a cross-gender character: Every woman has a man that they can play, and every man has a woman that they can play.”

Men Play Character Crosses Gender Every Man

Author:Gael Garcia Bernal

“In a war, no matter the outcome of a certain skirmish or battle, the winner is the party whose attitudes, behaviors and preoccupations come to dominate the postwar landscape. By this measure, the outcome of the gender wars, if wars they were, is clear: women won.”

Ifs War Matter Certain Party Attitude Clear Battle Behavior Gender Landscape Winner Outcomes Preoccupation

Author:Marcus Buckingham

“Educational equality doesn't guarantee equality on the labor market. Even the most developed countries are not gender-equal. There are still glass ceilings and 'leaky pipelines' that prevent women from getting ahead in the workplace.”

Stills Country Equal Labor Glasses Educational Gender Guarantees Workplace Ceilings Pipeline Developed Country Glass Ceiling

Author:Michelle Bachelet

“The 2010 global gender gap report by the World Economic Forum shows that countries with better gender equality have faster-growing, more competitive economies.”

World Country Shows Economy Growing Economic Gender Faster Reports Gaps Gender Equality Forums Gender Gap

Author:Michelle Bachelet

“U.N. Women was created due to the acknowledgement that gender equality and women's empowerment was still, despite progress, far from what it should be. Transforming political will and decisions, such as the Member States creating U.N. Women, into concrete steps towards gender equality and women's empowerment, I think is one of the main challenges.”

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