What I'm trying to do in all senses is deconstruct our idea of gender and use the privileges that come with looking like a model to bring attention to that.
I never pay attention to age or gender. There are just too many other more important things to consider.
In particular, I want to set a challenge to public bodies and private companies to improve gender balance on their own boards.
I think everyone is bi, right? There's no such thing as sexual orientation, or race, or gender. Those are all obsolete man-made concepts.
...gender relationships, which are tough for people to deal with, are key to whether a society orients to domination or partnership in all its relations.
I think the culture is changing. An example of that is that the commanders truly want the very best person for the job regardless of gender.
For us, gender didn't come up. We were friends who happened to play together. We never said, 'Gee, we're an all-girl band!'
Calling gender violence a women's issue is part of the problem. It gives a lot of men an excuse not to pay attention.
Homosexuality is a psychological and psychiatric disorder, there is no question about it. It is a purple menace that is threatening the proper design of gender distinctions in society.
It's tragic that you can define a whole movement in music by gender alone. People are like, 'Oh, look, another quirky girl.'
I don't have a gender thesis. I am truly optimizing for the right person for the task, whether that means running a company or working on my team.
Let's face it: your average straight, cis-gender teenage boy isn't going to pursue a relationship with a trans-girl.
I was very proud, on just my second day in office, to appoint a gender-balanced cabinet - one of only three in the developed world.
I didn't want to be discriminated against because of my gender and status. I promised myself I was never going to be treated as a second-class citizen.
I've never felt grounded because of my ancestry or my gender. I think until women get away from that they're not going to be great writers.
I admire actors such as Laura Linney, Cate Blanchett and Andrea Riseborough, who take risks and fight to not be defined by their gender.
When migraines briefly became a campaign issue for me, it appeared that political foes were maybe playing the gender card.
I think we're actually the only sport that has a mix of men and women competing together. The majority of other sports are separated by gender.
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.
Be kind to yourself and take the time you need to define your gender and sexuality in a way that feels safe and right for you.
'Hanna' has grown up in wilderness. It highlights humanness and animal-ness in humans. She has an interesting take on gender and love.
A man who reads effeminate may well be consistently heterosexual, and another one might be gay. We can't read sexuality off of gender.
God does not discriminate against people, regardless of color, religion, social class, or gender and sexual preferences.
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.
My characters have never waged a war against any gender. They are all about friendship and being loyal to your friends.
There's been a sort of mini-revolution, an uprising, as was long overdue, about these subject matters: ethnicity and gender equality.
Is that really the issue [of bathrooms and gender] we want to be pushing leading up to a momentous election like this one? It's that shortsightedness that comes from identity politics.
There's always going to be evil, but the way we unite, regardless of class, race, religion, or gender, empowers the goodness in the world.
Men need to change their mentality. Talent has nothing to do with gender. If you're making a good film, you should always support that.
In language gender is particularly confusing. Why, please, should a table be male in German, female in French, and castrated in English?
There's no doubt about it that my participation in sports allowed me to compete in the business world in a very gender-neutral way.
Partly because women in the U.S. are better represented in the hierarchies, the culture wars over gender there have been particularly fierce.
Equal protection under the law - for race, religion, gender or sexual orientation - should not be subject to the most popular sentiments of the day.
Gender is a key marker of power and powerlessness. Most of the structures of how our world works are biased in terms of men.
I have to do good roles.
It's not a gender thing. You can pick anyone off the street and it depends on his or her own character how they can drive a car.
I was born with the wrong body, being feminine by gender but male by sex, and I could achieve completeness only when the one was adjusted to the other.
In pursuing the cherished goal of gender justice, to mention one example, the Supreme Court of India has always been proactive and progressive.
Children are receptive to talking about gender creativity, confirming the importance of the book as a means to instigate this dialogue at an early age.
Top Gear' is for the whole family, regardless of gender, sitting down together to enjoy some slightly silly escapism.
We want to say to everyone: New Jersey's a place where gender does not play a role in how much you get paid.
God is the biggest storyteller, and when we create stories, we connect with him and with each other across cultural, religious and gender boundaries.
Sexual harassment and gender discrimination is real, it's far more pervasive than I think people have been willing to acknowledge.
I've worked a lot with kids who identify as LGBTQ or gender nonconforming, and they are unquestionably some of the bravest people I've ever met.
Producers now look at the talent and if they believe that the director has the potential, they are willing to shell out the money irrespective of the gender.
Nobody should be treated any type of way because of their color, their race, their gender, their socioeconomic status. We're all human.
I've been surprised at the number of people who were really angry that I tried to convey gender neutrality by using a gendered pronoun.
No American should have to live in constant fear that their employer can fire them just because of their sexual orientation or gender identity.
Hopefully, 21 years later, Judge Roberts possesses an openness with respect to issues of gender-based wage discrimination.
There is no gender to my music. There's no male or female voice, no trite lyrics or poetry. It's much more abstract, so it lives with you longer.
I never, ever grew up as a young woman believing that my gender would stand in the way of doing anything I wanted.
I think our society has sort of built this gender binary, and the way we've said it exists does not really exist in nature.
As a black person of non-gender-conforming experience, my first existentially reciprocal and affirming experiences were in the New York ballrooms.
I follow the roles.
When I was five, long before I understood what the word 'gender' meant, I would always tell my mother that I wished I were a girl.
Studies have been done showing that there really are gender differences, that women do bring more congeniality and compromise to the table.
We pledge ourselves to liberate all our people from the continuing bondage of poverty, deprivation, suffering, gender and other discrimination.
I've never done gender politics - I think our vote is too important to give away on any single issue.
I don't think anyone should pick a candidate for any office based solely on gender. That would be, I believe, a mistake.
What I love about what I do is expanding people's minds on the topics of gender expression, gay rights, and most of all, entertaining them while I do it.
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