Quotes About Gender

I don't think it's at all weakening of the system if people with the same last name put themselves forward to the electorate, when their experiences, their character, and in my case, gender, may be different.

I think it is too hard for men to talk about gender. We have to let men talk about this... because we need men to talk about this if it is ever going to change.

When migraines briefly became a campaign issue for me, it appeared that political foes were maybe playing the gender card.

I feel like a feminist is gender equality.

I didn't want my gender to determine whether or not I could cover breaking news.

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 was always watching the boys and how they interacted. It comes with being a feminist, just somebody who thinks a lot about gender and how it plays out in society.

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

I have a son and a daughter; I try to teach them equally about balance, gender, and gender equity.

I read academic books on courtesan culture at the turn-of-the century in Shanghai such as Gail Hershatter's 'The Gender of Memory'. The diaries were mostly in the form of letters from courtesans to a lover who had disappeared or taken their savings.

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.

When I was a kid, I wanted to be a boy. I really had gender issues.

What the government and we in society need to do is to address the issue of gender justice.

No one knows my gender more than I do. You do not know my gender better than I do. A doctor doesn't know it better than I do. My parents don't know it better than I do. No one experiences my gender in the way that I experience it.

I was raised looking at women who were strong, and they weren't really into playing race cards or playing gender cards. I didn't grow up around women who were like, 'Well, let the boys do that, and let the girls do that.' I didn't really see that in my house.

Filmmaking is not about gender. You cannot ask a president in a festival like Cannes to have, like, five movies directed by women and five by men.

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.

I'd never seen anything like it in my life. Someone so blatantly challenging the ideas of race and gender and sexuality. In a way, it was comparable to David Bowie, except that Prince brought that to the black community.

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.

I had a really honest conversation with my husband about equal pay because we met on a movie where he was paid more than me just because of gender.

Full social and political engagement is impossible without economic empowerment, a point that is as true for women as it is for young people of either gender.

For my entire life, I've wrestled with my gender identity.

I was a fan of the idea of Red Sonja, but the gender politics of the character made her hard to read, for me, at times.

On one hand, my gender has never been an issue. The issue has always been what's on the page. But the reality is, an awful lot of women fought an awful lot of battles to get me to that place.