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The most important thing is to have a more open and honest dialogue about gender issues. -- Sheryl Sandberg
I think people will have great conversations about religions, women's sexuality, gender issues and gay issues. -- Pam Grier
But the issue of sexual harassment is not the end of it. There are other issues - political issues, gender issues - that people need to be educated about. -- Anita Hill
A lot of my effort is to get people to talk about gender in a new way and to see that sexism and gender issues are so ingrained in us. -- Jennifer Fox
There is a clear difference between sexist parody and parody of sexism. Sexist parody encourages the players to mock and trivialize gender issues while parody of sexism disrupts the status quo and undermines regressive gender conventions. -- Anita Sarkeesian
I'm more interested in a feminism that ends discrimination for all people. It's not just about a woman becoming the CEO of a company or something. It's connected to racism and classism and gender issues that go beyond the binary. -- Kathleen Hanna
When I was a kid, I wanted to be a boy. I really had gender issues. I really thought I was supposed to be a boy. I used to sneak into my dad's room and put on a suit, drink a cocktail, and pretend to smoke a cigarette. -- Jane Lynch
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
I think it's important for us to recognize that although historically black communities have been very progressive with respect to issues of race and with respect to struggles for racial equality, that does not necessarily translate into progressive positions on gender issues, progressive positions on issues of sexuality and in the latter 1990s we have to recognize the intersectionality, the interconnectedness of all of these institutions and attitudes. -- Angela Davis
Countries with higher levels of gender equality have higher economic growth. Companies with more women on their boards have higher returns. Peace agreements that include women are more successful. Parliaments with more women take up a wider range of issues - including health, education, anti-discrimination, and child support. -- Ban Ki-moon
Hopefully, 21 years later, Judge Roberts possesses an openness with respect to issues of gender-based wage discrimination. -- Olympia Snowe
I have never been good at doing impressions of women. Which is understandable. There's a gender issue. -- Rory Bremner
When migraines briefly became a campaign issue for me, it appeared that political foes were maybe playing the gender card. -- Michele Bachmann
Calling gender violence a women's issue is part of the problem. It gives a lot of men an excuse not to pay attention. -- Jackson Katz
I am not sure gender ever won't be an issue in comedy, because I think that women do have different priorities in some respects. -- Jenny Eclair
I never go anywhere and encourage people to get married to someone of the same gender or to have abortions - the issue never comes up. -- Cindy Sheehan
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
Garage Magazine' has a strong track record of promoting diversity and racial and gender equality in the worlds of art and fashion and will continue in our mission to stir positive debate on these and other issues. -- Dasha Zhukova
The issue of gender was never my biggest concern; my biggest concern was doing good work. When the feminist movement really got going, I wasn't an active part of it because I was more concerned with my own mental pursuits. -- Patti Smith
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
As a partner in a firm full of women who work outside of the home as well as stay at home mothers, all with plenty of children, gender equality is not a talking point for me. It is an issue I live every day. -- Hilary Rosen
You know, my mum's always encouraged me and never made my gender an issue, I guess. She brought me up to believe in equality, as opposed to feminism or sexism - so it just meant that my gender was not relevant to what I was capable of achieving. -- Paloma Faith
I always wanted to experience what performance would be like without the fourth wall, so I formed a company in Australia, and we did avant-garde theater, playing with gender norms, conversations about race - we just had a box of issues that we wanted to subvert with our stories, with dance. -- DeObia Oparei
We live in a world where there are a hell of a lot of new inputs that need to be factored in to your business. It used to be just about your employees and your customers. Now there are all the issues about global warming, about sustainability, about ethics and now about gender and the distribution of wealth. -- Stuart Rose
I think that issues of gender have been discussed widely at Harvard. But I think I was chosen clearly on the merits, and I wish to operate as president on the merits. I think, on one level, we might say that I can affirm that women have the aptitude to do science or to do anything, including being president of Harvard. -- Drew Gilpin Faust
There aren't a lot of female story artists, and it's baffling to me. There are a lot of kids in school that are female and I wonder, 'Where did they all go?' People have brought it up, asking me, 'What did you do?' I don't really know. I puttered along, did my thing and gender has really never been an issue. -- Jennifer Yuh Nelson
Clearly, I'm committed to women's issues and stories and promoting gender equality. I have two incredible role models in Jenji [Kohan] and Shonda [Rhimes]. -- Alysia Reiner
I think there's so many things happening, whether it's gender inequality or immigration, there's just so many issues happening around the world where not doing anything makes you guilty. -- Lilly Singh

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