Top 1200 Sex And Gender Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

Mercedes nursed a special grievance - the grievance of sex. She was pretty and soft, and had been chivalrously treated all her days. But the present treatment by her husband and brother was everything save chivalrous. It was her custom to be helpless. They complained. Upon which impeachment of what to her was her most essential sex pregorative, she made their lives unendurable.

Sexism is where there is discrimination clearly based on gender.

In my opinion, it's all about the song and the performance, not the gender.

Sex itself only only exists in relation to procreation. That's one of the reasons why I sometimes object, and it's just a theoretical objection, but it's worth thinking about, to the whole notion that one calls what people of the same sex do, sexual relations. As a matter of fact, they have precisely turned their back on sexual relations, in order to engage in acts of mutual pleasure that have nothing whatsoever to do with sexuality...

Gender equality does not exist anywhere.

I am not an expert on that whole issue of gender.

When I was in high school, it was the beginning of hippies and free love and sleeping with people was a sign of your liberation and your freedom. Then we [had to worry about] AIDS, so they started lecturing my kids in elementary school about safe sex. Sex turned from something joyful into something kind of dangerous, and it was hard to avoid that sense that it was a different world.

I feel like a feminist is gender equality.

All the English speakers, or almost all, have difficulties with the gender of words.

I'm not a woman in the 'Den,' I'm a Dragon, we're all there to invest, it has nothing to do with gender.

I dare say you marvel sometimes at my independent way of walking through the world just as if nature had made me of your sex instead of poor Eve's. Trust me, my beloved friend, the mind has no sex but what habit and education give it, and I who was thrown in infancy upon the world like a wreck upon the waters have learned, as well to struggle with the elements as any male child of Adam.

It shouldn't matter what gender you are but that's where we are right now and it's a battle.

The most disgusting, appalling horror of our world that we live in, to me, is sex trafficking and the enslavement of men and women, boys and girls, in the sex industry. That is the most horrific, horrific thing that's happening and it's happening in all of our towns here in Los Angeles, in New York, in London, in Paris, all over the world, and I think that's really what has to be addressed.

I've crossed many cultural and gender barriers as a woman.

Gender is a spectrum, and that's something that a lot of folks don't understand.

There are gender health differences, and we need to know what they are.

It makes me so angry when people say, "We never hear from people who are happy doing sex work." Well, that's because they're working. The activism privileges people who hated doing sex work, are no longer doing it, and have a job at a social service organization, for example, that trains them on how to speak to the media. We are hearing from those people quite a bit.

When gender comes down upon us, male or female, it comes as a restriction.

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

I have been gender-nonconforming my entire life.

I have been accused of having believed when I wrote Sex and Temperament that there are no sex differences... This, many readers felt, was too much. It was too pretty. I must have found what I was looking for. But this misconception comes from a lack of understanding of what anthropology means, of the open-mindedness with which one must look and listen, record in astonishment and wonder, that which one would not have been able to guess.

I dont see things with gender, race and culture

For my entire life, I've wrestled with my gender identity.

I am attracted to people irrespective of their gender.

By all measures men are the more violent gender.

By the time [of modern] generation was coming of age sexually, there was already this idea of safe sex. But that didn't exist for me. I came out of the free-swinging '60s and '70s. It was free love, baby. That was it. We had very liberal sex-ed classes in 1973, a yearlong environmental science class, and then Women's Lib and Gay Liberation. So it's insane to go from that to Reagan and AIDS. It was like, "What happened? Where's my future?"

The Reproductions of the living Ens From sires to sons, unknown to sex, commence... Unknown to sex the pregnant oyster swells, And coral-insects build their radiate shells... Birth after birth the line unchanging runs, And fathers live transmitted in their sons; Each passing year beholds the unvarying kinds, The same their manners, and the same their minds.

I love to be individual, to step beyond gender.

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

I dont think gender is aesthetically defining for me.

The pandemic of AIDS is a gender-based disease.

The gender question has always obsessed me.

I've always seen the world as very gender-neutral.

It's important to understand that one gender is not superior to the other.

Dance music has no gender, class or creeds.

Gender is a social construct, but everyone likes to cuddle.

Both sex and death are eternal themes. You could make thousands of movies on this theme, and whether you have a human being who is painting, singing, making a film, writing, these are the themes that you will come back to and return to. If you don't have any of these artistic expressions, sex is one of the only gifts that nature gave you for free, so it is very important to celebrate it. And then, with death, we are condemned to that. This is absolutely present in our lives.

The important thing in acting is to be able to laugh and cry. If I have to laugh, I think of my sex life. If I have to cry, I think of my sex life.

Gender equality must become a lived reality.

Then there was sex, which, for me, was such a need. When I was younger, I had a need to have sex with everyone. I don't know where that was coming from, but there was such a need to connect physically - obviously, for me to connect physically to myself. There were times, like I say in the book, where you lay on top of me, when you push me down, when you're inside me.

If gender is on a spectrum, where one finds oneself is completely unique.

Whatever your gender, you can be a 'Star Wars' fan.

Sexuality and gender don't change anyone's performance on the court.

If one is of the masculine gender, a poodle is the insignia of one's deviation.

There is so much room for gender-neutral characters.

Mortars and artillery don't discriminate against gender.

I don't think gender is aesthetically defining for me.

Gender inequality is a global issue that affects everyone.

Gender equality is not only an issue for women and girls.

I think of my gender as a part of my complex humanity.

I think that often my work is obscured by my gender identity.

Prostitution reinforces all the old dumb clichés about women's sexuality; that they are not built to enjoy sex and are little more than walking masturbation aids, things to be done to, things so sensually null and void that they have to be paid to indulge in fornication, that women can be had, bought, as often as not sold from one man to another. When the sex war is won prostitutes should be shot as collaborators for their terrible betrayal of all women.

What sex is, we don't know, but it must be some sort of fire. For it always communicates a sense of warmth, of glow. And when this glow becomes a pure shine, then we feel the sense of beauty. We all have the fire of sex slumbering or burning inside us. If we live to be ninety, it is still there. Or, if it dies, we become one of those ghastly living corpses which are unfortunately becoming more numerous in the world.

Gender discrimination has no place in our workforce.

Gender is probably the most restricting force in American life.

Boulez's only concern is with power. He lost the leadership of the avant-guard more than ten years ago to Stockhausen. Now others have moved in. With the need for power, where was he to go? So he chose to be a conductor. He is a wonderful musician, a wonderful intelligence. It's a pity there is no humanity there. Does he have sex? I think not. When men have no sex, they go after power in this big, obsessive way.

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

I definitely struggle with a disillusionment towards my body and my gender.

We are a model country where gender equality is concerned.

The gender thing doesn't exist; it's a social construct you don't have to fit into.