Quotes of: Genders Keyword

To know the history of science is to recognize the mortality of any claim to universal truth.

Reflections on Gender and Science

The 2010 global gender gap report by the World Economic Forum shows that countries with better gender equality have faster-growing, more competitive economies.

Michelle Bachelet

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

A gender-equal society would be one where the word 'gender' does not exist: where everyone can be themselves.

Gloria Steinem

My gender ceased to exist inside me whenever I sing my feelings; soul has no gender.

Aniekee Tochukwu

Let's stop pretending that we have all the answers, because when it comes to gender, none of us is fucking omniscient.

Gender Outlaws: The Next Generation

Basing your identity on sexuality is like building a house on a foundation of pudding. - D. Travers Scott

PoMoSexuals: Challenging Assumptions About Gender and Sexuality

I felt alien my whole life, but I didn't feel alien because of my gender. Other people made me aware of my gender.

Patti Smith

Every year I teach dozens of students at the University of Birmingham. Most of the students on the gender and sexuality courses are women. I guess this is because the boys don't think that gender applies to them: that it's a subject for girls.

Louise Brown

I met people on college campuses who were defining themselves as genderqueer to express revolutionary feelings, or to communicate their individuality; they were gender fluid without being gender dysphoric. This phenomenon may be culturally significan...

Far from the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity

Sex is a matter of biology, while gender is a matter of grammar, and there is no earthly reason why sex should be involved in gender distinctions.

Language: The Basics

...there are more models than the heterosexual one for a male and female who want to exchange erotic energy.

PoMoSexuals: Challenging Assumptions About Gender and Sexuality

True resistance begins with people confronting pain... and wanting to do something to change it.

Yearning: Race, Gender, and Cultural Politics

Success on the front of women's rights will look like a world not only with obvious advances - where no girl is denied access to education, for instance - but also one with more subtle changes in how we regard gender and gender stereotypes.

Adora Svitak

I confused gender identity with sexual orientation. Your gender identity is about who you are, how you feel, the sex that you feel yourself to be. Sexual orientation is who you're attracted to.

Chaz Bono

Most critics of gender division are women, and they're worried about girls and the roles presented for them by gendered entertainments. They are quite right to be. Telling girls that the cars and the guns are beyond their domain of expertise, and tha...

Russell Smith

I am a men's liberationist (or "masculist") when men's liberation is defined as equal opportunity and equal responsibility for both sexes. I am a feminist when feminism favors equal opportunities and responsibilities for both sexes. I oppose both mov...

The Myth of Male Power

The fact that ‘attention seeking’ is still considered a slur says much about the role of women in public life, on every scale.

Cybersexism: Sex, Gender and Power on the Internet

When we talk about my gender as though it were a performance, we let the audience - with all their expectations, prejudices, and presumptions - completely off the hook. - Scott Turner Schofield

Gender Outlaws: The Next Generation

Humanity is higher than religion, so says my religion.

I Want Back My Sparkle!: Breaking the Global Chains of Gender Slavery.

Love may not be quid pro quo but marriage certainly is.

I Want Back My Sparkle!: Breaking the Global Chains of Gender Slavery.