Quotes About Gender

If I can mean to people - if I can symbolize the ability to pursue gender equality, racial equality, and to be truthful about our experiences, then, absolutely, that's what I want to be.

We will have equality when a female schlemiel moves ahead as fast as a male schlemiel.

There is equality in the office but not on the street.

I support equality. Everyone should feel free to live out the parts of their personality that correspond to the classic male or female image.

It's not just a question of numbers. There will be more women (in parliament) who are conscious of women's rights ... There will also be women who are not committed to equality.

I suppose true sexual equality will come when a general called Anthea is found having an unwise lunch with a young, unreliable model from Spain.

As women began to challenge their own internalized views of a woman's proper place, their desire and demand for equal status and free choice began to grow exponentially.

Girls could do most things as well as boys, and some things better.

I am still fully committed to male-female equality.

Girls are weighed down by restrictions, boys with demands - two equally harmful disciplines.

Men—I would like to take this opportunity to extend your formal invitation. Gender equality is your issue too.

I don't want to oppress men or demand to be given rights beyond what's held by them, but neither do I want men to oppress women. As God's creations, we should be held in equal esteem.

Misogyny… is not a true part of the human condition. It is life out of balance and that imbalance is sucking something out of the soul of every man and woman who is confronted with it.

I don't think about being male or female, I just behave naturally. I think in terms of excellence in science, not gender.

Whether born from experience or inherent physiological or cultural differences...our gender and national origins may and will make a difference in our judging.

... in practice the standard for what constitutes rape is set not at the level of women's experience of violation but just above the level of coercion acceptable to men.

It's OK to assert yourself. Obviously, as a woman, I do experience the consequence of asserting yourself - you're not supposed to assert yourself.

The female experience is different from that of the male, and if, as a male writer, you cannot accept that basic premise, then you will never, ever, be able to write women well.

It is my belief, based partly on personal experience but partly also arrived at by looking around at others, that childhood lasts considerably longer in the males of our species than in the females.

In my own experience of male and female directors, people have a much, much harder time taking a direct command from a woman. It's somehow very difficult for people.

Failure to critique US empire allows feminist projects to be used and mobilized as handmaidens in the imperial project.

People talk of the pathos and failure of plain women; but it is a more terrible thing that a beautiful woman may succeed in everything but womanhood.

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

America cannot be America in the new century until it deals with these new questions of gender, including the trans issues, and the questions around faith and Islam.