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Quotes About Gender

Patriarchal Poetry makes mistakes.
~ Gertrude Stein
How do you knowyou're a girl?I'm wearing a frock.And if you take it off?I get cold, so I putit back on.If I was a boy, I don't know what I'd do.
~ Ivor Cutler, Scots Wa' Straw
There is tremendous inequity in Hollywood and politics, and I would say globally it's challenging to be a woman and succeed.
~ Julia Louis-Dreyfus
I grew up with three brothers and no sisters. That's the best preparation for politics any girl can have.
~ Michele Bachmann
Since politics — until recently — has been a man's world, men, as a whole are responsible for its corruption.
~ Bertha Knight Landes
In politics women type the letters, lick the stamps, distribute the pamphlets and get out the vote. Men get elected.
~ Clare Boothe Luce
There are far too many men in politics and not enough elsewhere.
~ Hermione Gingold
Ah, Feminism in the nineties, what a What is yours what is mine field.
~ Dennis Miller
The politics of transgender identity are really complicated. And the debate over how much of gender is biological and how much of it is socially constructed is a very complex debate.
~ Jess Row
I'm a girl, but that doesn't mean I don't appreciate greatness and the struggle of sports. My situation - and I've always said this, even in politics - is may the best man win. I'm not team-bound.
~ Diane Lane
No march, movement, or agenda that defines manhood in the narrowest terms and seeks to make women lesser partners in this quest for equality can be considered a positive step.
~ Angela Davis
Man makes his own destiny. Despite being a woman, she makes Man, a Gentleman.
~ Vikrmn, 10 Alone
I like being a woman in a man's world. After all, men can't wear dresses, but we can wear the pants.
~ Whitney Houston
I do think that being the second [female Supreme Court Justice] is wonderful because it is a sign that being a woman in a place of importance is no longer extraordinary.
~ Ruth Bader Ginsberg
It is no use blaming the men-we made them what they are-and now it is up to us to try and make ourselves-the makers of men-a little more responsible.
~ Nancy Astor
A lioness has got a lot more power than the lion likes to think she has.
~ Jacki Weaver
Male and female have the power to fuse into one solid, both because both are nourished in both and also because soul is the same thing in all living creatures, although the body of each is different.
~ Hippocrates
Power is what calls the shots, and power is a white male game.
~ Ann Richards
The power I exert on the court depends on the power of the power of my arguments, not my gender
~ Sandra Day O'Connor
However muted its present appearance may be, sexual dominion obtains nevertheless as perhaps the most pervasive ideology of our culture and provides its most fundamental concept of power
~ Kate Millett
Not even girls want to be girls so long as our feminine archetype lacks force, strength, and power.
~ William Moulton Marston
The power of the word in Morocco belonged to men and to the authorities. No one asked the point of view of poor people or women.
~ Tahar Ben Jelloun
Femininity is a lot of power. It's allure. And the moment you start competing directly with a man, it's not that fun.
~ Carolina Herrera
and debris, and her husband and I settled back, sucking on toothpicks like a pair of feudal lords. This may sound sexist and insensitive and politically incorrect—and it is—but I had long since
~ Will Ferguson