Gender Quotes

Women should be treated as human beings, not as domestic animals.

Gender is not something that one is, it is something one does, an act… a doing rather than a being.

We are born as who we are, the gender thing is something that is imposed on you.

Whether you're transgender or not, most of us get to a point in our lives where we can no longer lie to ourselves.

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.

I was a liberated woman long before there was a name for it.

There’s no such thing as sexism against men. That's because sexism is prejudice + power. Men are the dominant gender with power in society.

Gender is between your ears and not between your legs.

People fall in love with a person, not a gender or an age.

So few grown women like their lives.

For the most part, I definitely don't identify as any gender. I'm not a guy; I don't really feel like a woman, but obviously I was born one.

Thus, gender ideology no only creates ides about femininity but it also shapes conceptions of masculinity.

Our notions of what a human being is problematically depend on there being two coherent genders. And if someone doesn't comply with either the masculine norm or the feminine norm, their very humaness is called into question.

Nature chooses who will be transgender; individuals don't choose this.

I am not an angel," I asserted; "and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself.

The power I exert on the court depends on the power of the power of my arguments, not my gender

It is a curious thing to be a woman in the Caribbean after you have been a woman in these United States.

…gender is not sane. It's not sane to call a rainbow black and white.

Part of the reason images of women in positions of authority are marked by their gender is that the very notion of authority is associated with maleness.

I find the question of whether gender differences are biologically determined or socially constructed to be deeply disturbing.

Ultimately, the transgender question is about more than just sex. It's about what it means to be human.

I have always firmly believed that every director should be judged solely by their work, and not by their work based on their gender. Hollywood is supposedly a community of forward thinking and progressive people yet this horrific situation for women directors persists. Gender discrimination stigmatizes our entire industry. Change is essential. Gender neutral hiring is essential.

Gender inequality is not one problem, it's a collection of problems.

I am very gender-fluid and feel more like I wake up every day sort of gender neutral.

The problem with gender is that it prescribes how we should be, rather than recognising how we are.