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  • Gender equality is more than a goal in itself. It is a precondition for meeting the challenge of reducing poverty, promoting sustainable development and building good governance. -- Kofi Annan
  • Gender consciousness has become involved in almost every intellectual field: history, literature, science, anthropology. There's been an extraordinary advance -- Clifford Geertz
  • I'm the result of upbringing, class, race, gender, social prejudices, and economics. So I'm a victim again. A result. -- James Hillman
  • What everyone in the astronaut corps shares in common is not gender or ethnic background, but motivation, perseverance, and desire - the desire to participate in a voyage of discovery. -- Ellen Ochoa
  • Most men are very attached to the idea of being male, and usually experience a lot of fear and insecurity around the idea of being a man. Most women are very identified with their gender, and also experience a tremendous amount of fear and insecurity. -- Andrew Cohen
  • Gender equality must become a lived reality -- Michelle Bachelet
  • Gender reassignment is an exorcism of the mother -- Germaine Greer
  • Gender equality is more successful than armed force -- Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero
  • Gender is between your ears and not between your legs. -- Chaz Bono
  • Gender is a social construct, but everyone likes to cuddle. -- Danielle Henderson
  • Gender is probably the most restricting force in American life. -- Gloria Steinem
  • Gender preference does not define you. Your spirit defines you. -- P. C. Cast
  • Gender is really varied and complicated and sort of infinitely individualistic. -- Susan Faludi
  • Gender based violence anywhere is a threat to peace and security everywhere. -- John F. Kerry
  • Gender equality will only be reached if we are able to empower women. -- Michelle Bachelet
  • Gender mattered a whole lot less to Shakespeare than it seems to matter to us. -- John Irving
  • Gender is the poetry each of us makes out of the language we are taught. -- Leslie Feinberg
  • Gender or skin color does not of itself determine the nature of a person's thinking. -- Marianne Williamson
  • Gender relations are a sad story of men talking trash about women all over the world. -- John Darnielle
  • Gender fluidity is not really feeling like you're at one end of the spectrum or the other. -- Ruby Rose
  • Gender no longer forms an essential part of marriage; marriage under law is a union of equals. -- Vaughn Walker
  • Gender injustice is a social impairment and therefore has to be corrected in social attitudes and behaviour. -- Mohammad Hamid Ansari
  • I think we have to ask, not, what "Gender trouble" is today but where "Gender trouble" is today. -- Judith Butler
  • Gender consciousness has become involved in almost every intellectual field: history, literature, science, anthropology. There's been an extraordinary advance. -- Clifford Geertz
  • Gender is an identity tenuously constituted in time, instituted in an exterior space through a stylized repetition of acts. -- Judith Butler
  • I think I never expected "Gender trouble" to have any particularly revolutionary effect so whatever effects it has, I'm always surprised. -- Judith Butler
  • Gender is a way to hide from the simple truth we all tell: 'Hey, I'm here, I have a body.' -- Susan Griffin
  • Gender is not something that one is, it is something one does, an act"¦ a doing rather than a being. -- Judith Butler
  • Gender data is important. If girls donâ??t have a birth certificate, how do we know how many are marrying as children? -- Kathy Calvin
  • Music Has No Religion Nor Gender. See Its a ___W___A___V____E___ and You Can Modify It !!! So What You Are Up To.. ~? -- Sundeep Lal
  • Gender and race got very entwined in the 19th century, as abolition broke out, and then women wanted the right to speak about it. -- Sue Monk Kidd
  • Music Has No Religion Nor Gender" See Its a ___W___A___V____E___ and You Can Modify It !!! So What Are You Up To.. ~? -- Sundeep Lal
  • The way I approach the character isn't about being gay or straight. It's just about who you love. Gender has very little to do with it. -- Mia Kirshner
  • 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. -- Emma Watson
  • I hope one day it won't matter who you're in love with. Gender is just a word. LOVE is beautiful. labels are for assholes. don't ever stop being yourselves. -- Jeffree Star
  • Gender equality and women's empowerment have been a top priority for me from day one as Secretary-General. And I am committed to making sure that the U.N. leads by example. -- Ban Ki-moon
  • I think that why the research and the data are so important is because you become so used to seeing the world one way that you don't even notice anymore. [Gender inequality] has this invisibility. -- Emma Watson
  • If I'm good at something, I'm good at something, and if I'm bad at something, I'm just bad at something. Gender shouldn't have anything to do with any of my work or anything I produce or create. -- Jlin
  • Gender is a kind of imitation for which there is no original; in fact, it is a kind of imitation that produces the very notion of the original as an effect and consequence of the imitation itself. -- Judith Butler
  • "Gender trouble" is old. I mean, you know, in New York, it is old. I mean it's sweet. I mean people are really kind about it but it's like a former love affair you had and you're done. -- Judith Butler
  • We are a model country where gender equality is concerned. -- Tarja Halonen
  • As far as I'm concerned, being any gender is a drag. -- Patti Smith
  • Nothing changes the gender equation more significantly than women's economic freedom. -- Gloria Steinem
  • Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Any serious shift towards more sustainable societies has to include gender equality. -- Helen Clark
  • We must focus on people as people, regardless of race, creed, color or gender. -- Mills Lane
  • I believe gender is a spectrum, and I fall somewhere between Channing Tatum and Winnie the Pooh. -- Stephen Colbert
  • Do I even think about myself as a woman when I go to make art? Of course not. -- Judy Chicago
  • A gender-equal society would be one where the word 'gender' does not exist: where everyone can be themselves. -- Gloria Steinem
  • Do not ghettoize society by putting people into legal categories of gender, race, ethnicity, language, or other such characteristics. -- Preston Manning
  • I love a challenge. And I love defying limitation, gender stereotypes, and people's expectations of me as an actress. -- Gwendoline Christie
  • We pledge ourselves to liberate all our people from the continuing bondage of poverty, deprivation, suffering, gender and other discrimination. -- Nelson Mandela
  • True equality means holding everyone accountable in the same way, regardless of race, gender, faith, ethnicity - or political ideology. -- Monica Crowley
  • Sexual, racial, gender violence and other forms of discrimination and violence in a culture cannot be eliminated without changing culture. -- Charlotte Bunch
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  • We've begun to raise daughters more like sons... but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters. -- Gloria Steinem
  • I never felt oppressed because of my gender. When I'm writing a poem or drawing, I'm not a female; I'm an artist. -- Patti Smith
  • Class, race, sexuality, gender and all other categories by which we categorize and dismiss each other need to be excavated from the inside. -- Dorothy Allison
  • The one thing that unites all human beings, regardless of age, gender, religion or ethnic background, is that we all believe we are above-average drivers. -- Dave Barry
  • There is no gender identity behind the expressions of gender... identity is performatively constituted by the very 'expressions' that are said to be its results. -- Judith Butler
  • Capitalism knows only one color: that color is green; all else is necessarily subservient to it, hence, race, gender and ethnicity cannot be considered within it. -- Thomas Sowell
  • As you become more successful, the gender barrier disappears. The credibility challenges you have during your growing up years starts disappearing when you start demonstrating success. -- Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw
  • I'm not telling women to be like men. I'm telling us to evaluate what men and women do in the workforce and at home without the gender bias. -- Sheryl Sandberg
  • But let me tell you, this gender thing is history. You're looking at a guy who sat down with Margaret Thatcher across the table and talked about serious issues. -- George H. W. Bush
  • We have a history of gender and racial bias on our court that continues to undermine the system. Excluding individuals based on race is antagonistic to the pursuit of justice. -- Anita Hill
  • If there's specific resistance to women making movies, I just choose to ignore that as an obstacle for two reasons: I can't change my gender, and I refuse to stop making movies. -- Kathryn Bigelow
  • The result of the collaborative culture is that corporations or government institutions focus intensely on internal culture and pour their energy into achieving minuscule policy changes relating to workplace efficiency, gender or race. -- Amity Shlaes
  • We need love, and to ensure love, we need to have full employment, and we need social justice. We need gender equity. We need freedom from hunger. These are our most fundamental needs as social creatures. -- David Suzuki
  • There are not as many women who support the national defense budget now as men. I really think there is a gender gap in the support for the large expenditures that are necessary to modernize the force. -- Ted Stevens
  • I mean, I absolutely call myself a feminist. And by that, I mean a woman who believes that your opportunities should not be constrained by your gender, that women should be entitled to the same opportunities as men. -- Ayelet Waldman
  • My gender has never been an issue or a limitation. I was fortunate enough to be surrounded by strong women growing up, and with them as my role models, I was never limited by the traditional roles women find themselves in. -- Brenda Brathwaite
  • Study after study confirms that even when you control for variables like profession, education, hours worked, age, marital status, and children, men still are compensated substantially more - even in professions, like nursing, dominated by women. No wonder there's a gender gap. -- Dee Dee Myers
  • I appreciate the sentiment that I am a popular woman in computer gaming circles; but I prefer being thought of as a computer game designer rather than a woman computer game designer. I don't put myself into gender mode when designing a game. -- Roberta Williams
  • In the theory of gender I began from zero. There is no masculine power or privilege I did not covet. But slowly, step by step, decade by decade, I was forced to acknowledge that even a woman of abnormal will cannot escape her hormonal identity. -- Camille Paglia
  • 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. -- Virginia Woolf
  • It's my view that gender is culturally formed, but it's also a domain of agency or freedom and that it is most important to resist the violence that is imposed by ideal gender norms, especially against those who are gender different, who are nonconforming in their gender presentation. -- Judith Butler
  • 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. -- John Green
  • I want to state upfront, unequivocally and without doubt: I do not believe that any racial, ethnic or gender group has an advantage in sound judging. I do believe that every person has an equal opportunity to be a good and wise judge, regardless of their background or life experiences. -- Sonia Sotomayor
  • Growing up in a Jewish matriarchal world inside the patriarchal paradise of Salt Lake City, Utah, gave me increased perspective on gender issues, as it also did my gay brother and my lesbian sister. Our younger sister is the perfect Jewish-American wife and mother, and is fiercely proud of that fact. -- Roseanne Barr
  • If a person is homosexual by nature - that is, if one's sexuality is as intrinsic a part of one's identity as gender or skin color - then society can no more deny a gay person access to the secular rights and religious sacraments because of his homosexuality than it can reinstate Jim Crow. -- Jon Meacham
  • I'm not one that believes that affirmative action should be based on one's skin color or one's gender, I think it should be done based on one's need, because I think if you are from a poor white community, I think that poor white kid needs a scholarship just as badly as a poor black kid. -- J. C. Watts
  • Thought has no gender. -- Vanna Bonta
  • Patriarchy has no gender. -- bell hooks
  • I believe in gender equality. -- Demi Lovato
  • The soul has no gender. -- Clarissa Pinkola Estes
  • True badassery has no gender. -- Alison Pill
  • courage is not a matter of gender. -- Josefina Vazquez Mota
  • Sex is f-king, everything else is gender. -- Kate Bornstein
  • American Idol transcends age, gender, ethnicity, everything. -- Carrie Underwood
  • Mortars and artillery don't discriminate against gender. -- Lynsey Addario
  • Cultural perspective on gender diversity in computing, -- Lenore Blum
  • I desire a person, not a gender. -- Matthew C. Ehrlich
  • Resiliency is not gender-, age-, or intellectually specific... -- Asa Don Brown
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  • I feel like a feminist is gender equality. -- Ilana Glazer
  • The pandemic of AIDS is a gender-based disease. -- Stephen Lewis
  • I don't think gender is aesthetically defining for me. -- Suzanne Vega
  • Heart and character have no gender, religion nor color. -- Charles Spencer King
  • I dont see things with gender, race and culture -- Rad Hourani
  • I dont think gender is aesthetically defining for me. -- Suzanne Vega
  • By all measures men are the more violent gender. -- Steven Pinker
  • I love to be individual, to step beyond gender. -- Annie Lennox
  • Love is pure and true; love knows no gender. -- Tori Spelling
  • I have never let gender get in my way. -- Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw
  • People fall in love with a person, not a gender -- Darren Criss
  • We put a gender lens on our whole value chain. -- Paul Polman
  • Sexuality and gender don't change anyone's performance on the court. -- Sheryl Swoopes
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  • I'm known for being annoyingly gender-focused. It's always been my platform. -- Liz Phair
  • I guess professionally I've left my gender open to artistic interpretation. -- Andrej Pejic
  • Kindness and gentleness never had a gender, and neither did empathy. -- Rebecca Solnit
  • The act of sport remains a human act, unrelated to gender. -- Mariah Nelson
  • people share a common nature but are trained in gender roles. -- Lillie Devereux Blake
  • I don't see gender as the most significant fact of human existence. -- Jim Harrison
  • I can't change my gender, and I refuse to stop making movies. -- Kathryn Bigelow
  • Parenting is about being competent and responsible. It's not about gender, necessarily. -- Dan Savage
  • My own personal, moral, spiritual, religious, etc. beliefs don't oppose same-gender marriage. -- Ed Case
  • my spirit is too ancient to understand the separation of soul & gender -- Ntozake Shange
  • Our mothers are our most direct connection to our history and gender. -- Hope Edelman
  • No country in the world can yet say they have achieved gender equality. -- Emma Watson
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