Quotes About Diversity

There are different chemistries you can have in different bands, and part of that's caused by the gender.

I don't hold myself out as a role model. I don't believe that everyone should make the same choices; that everyone has to want to be a CEO, or everyone should want to be a work-at-home mother. I want everyone to be able to choose. But I want us to be able to choose unencumbered by gender choosing for us.

I feel like a feminist is gender equality.

I always find it amazing that people get mad because they can't figure out my gender. Even though my only job here is to create art, I think being a genderless figure... it shakes people. And when that happens, it makes me feel like I'm doing my job.

I think of my gender as a part of my complex humanity.

In particular, I want to set a challenge to public bodies and private companies to improve gender balance on their own boards.

I'd like to think that the door is always open for just the best actor for the role, you know? Race or gender shouldn't have anything to do with it, unless the character or story is focused on that for some particular reason.

The study of gender and language might seem at first to be a narrowly focused field, but it is actually as interdisciplinary as they come.

Keep in mind that diversity does not just mean black. It means all of it - age, weight, gender.

The 'Crossfire' demographic is all-encompassing. Age, gender, religion, culture... it doesn't matter.

I never had an issue with gender.

I've not been discriminated against, but I can see it happen. And not just race but gender and sexuality, too. It's stereotyping, lazy casting, which is an issue: that people can't see outside the box.

Gender is not central to coding.

I was ahead of the gender curve, but I wasn't ahead of the intersectionality curve, and I get it now. It's important to me.

People want to know and understand each other across lines of race, class, gender, sexuality, ability.

My definition of gender expands beyond just two genders.

I don't think gender even exists.

I never saw gender as a barrier.

For Marvel, we've never looked at any of our characters in terms of gender, race, or religion. It truly is about, who is the best character for the story? If that character happens to be a woman, fantastic.

If you're a man, you're a man. If you're a woman, you're a woman. You use the bathroom of your gender. If you can't figure it out, I'm not sure I can help you.

Every conversation we have as a band is about gender in some way, and it's been like that from the beginning.

It's almost comical how un-liberal liberal Hollywood is when it comes to fighting gender and racial bias.

Gender discrimination is not the only form of discrimination one has to deal with.

We've been socialised and told that there is a way to describe people, and that way is by their gender or their sex.