Gender Quotes

The silence lingers and we soak it up like a good steam. Men like silence. We believe in it. We crave it. To us, silence is equal to peace and synonymous with quiet. Thus the common gender-specific phrase uttered by men in homes throughout the world, usually in the evening and on weekends: “Can I please get some peace and quiet, please?

~ Alan Eisenstock

...And Brick and I say in unison, “As long as I’m here.”This is a guy thing.You never want to acknowledge that you and another guy had exactly the same thought in exactly the same words and that you spoke them aloud . . .at exactly the same time. If you’re out on a date and this happens, this is a good thing. It’s evidence that you and your date think alike, you’re in sync, possibly even soul mates, and with some luck, you might get laid. When this occurs with two guys, it’s simply freaky and should go by as if it never happened.

~ Alan Eisenstock

sex separation in the classroom leads to a bullshit socio-economic situation perpetuated by people with good intentions.

~ Darnell Lamont Walker

There is a resemblance between men and women, not a contrast. When a man begins to recognize his feeling, the two unite. When men accept the sensitive side of themselves, they come alive.

~ Anaïs Nin

We speak of the masculine and the feminine, but they are the wrong labels. It is really more a matter of poetry versus intellectualization.

~ Anaïs Nin

It's a controversial issue: many feminists reasonably worry that by taking the concentration off gender as an independent locus of oppression, we dilute the strength of a women's movement, or of women's rights advocacy.

~ Rebecca Traister

True equality means holding everyone accountable in the same way, regardless of race, gender, faith, ethnicity - or political ideology.

~ Monica Crowley

Gender equality will only be reached if we are able to empower women.

~ Michelle Bachelet

Any serious shift towards more sustainable societies has to include gender equality.

~ Helen Clark

Sporting events like the Olympics have developed and maintained a clear message of promoting gender equality as an essential criterion in the success of any international event.

~ Richard Attias

Our equality bill is specifically designed to protect religion and belief on exactly the same terms as race or gender or sexuality.

~ Gordon Brown

True gender equality in Scotland - and elsewhere - is still some way off.

~ Nicola Sturgeon

My pledge to you is that the SNP will put women and gender equality right at the heart of the Westminster agenda.

~ Nicola Sturgeon

Today, it's about gender equality, not neutrality. Anyone who doesn't agree would be a bit of an idiot.

~ Twinkle Khanna

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

The biggest deficit in terms of gender equality at Ozon lay in our IT department. So we made a decision, along with our key IT leaders, to remove all filters and systemically interview all the women who apply.

~ Maelle Gavet

And think of how we challenged the idea of a male dominated Parliament with All-Women shortlists and made the cause of gender equality central to our government. We were right to do so.

~ Ed Miliband

I feel like a feminist is gender equality.

~ Ilana Glazer

We are a model country where gender equality is concerned.

~ Tarja Halonen

Everyone in the world should have a trench coat, and there should be a trench coat for everyone in the world. It does not matter your age; it doesn't matter your gender.

~ Angela Ahrendts

Often, economists spend their energies squabbling with one another, but arguably the more important contrast is between our broadly liberal economic worldview and the various alternatives - common around the globe - that postulate natural hierarchies of religion, ethnicity, caste and gender, often enforced by law and strict custom.

~ Tyler Cowen

Equal protection under the law - for race, religion, gender or sexual orientation - should not be subject to the most popular sentiments of the day.

~ Cory Booker

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

I've never treated anyone badly or in a discriminatory way based on their gender, race, religion or sexuality - period.

~ Mel Gibson

I think it's time we all agree that gender stereotypes are simply the confabulation of our own mind.

~ Naveen Jain

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

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

There are many things that matter much more than an editor's gender in shaping the direction of the leadership.

~ Nancy Gibbs

One of the hardest questions I have been asked is 'How will you manage the army if you are having menstrual cramps?' I have also been asked if I will have the courage to face criminals. My answer is that courage is not a matter of gender.

~ Josefina Vazquez Mota

When the Nobel award came my way, it also gave me an opportunity to do something immediate and practical about my old obsessions, including literacy, basic health care and gender equity, aimed specifically at India and Bangladesh.

~ Amartya Sen

I love technology, and I don't think it's something that should divide along gender lines.

~ Marissa Mayer

Creating whole departments of ethnic, gender, and other 'studies' was part of the price of academic peace. All too often, these 'studies' are about propaganda rather than serious education.

~ Thomas Sowell

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 that they should content themselves with clothes and friendships, is limiting.

~ Russell Smith

Feminism isn't about hating men. It's about challenging the absurd gender distinctions that boys and girls learn from childhood and carry into their adult lives.

~ Robert Webb

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

~ Gloria Steinem

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

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