Top 1200 Sex And Gender Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

my spirit is too ancient to understand the separation of soul & gender

to the extent that either sex is disadvantaged, the whole culture is poorer, and the sex that, superficially, inherits the earth, inherits only a very partial legacy. The more whole the culture, the more whole each member, each man, each woman, each child will be.

Sex is difficult to write about because it's just not sexy enough. The only way to write about it is not to write much. Let the reader bring his own sexuality into the text. A writer I usually admire has written about sex in the most off-putting way. There is just too much information.

Gender preference does not define you. Your spirit defines you.

[On being asked, 'Did you ever say that an actress needs to be able to laugh and to cry and that when you need to laugh you think of your sex life and when you need to cry you think of your sex life?':] No.

Chivalry isn't dead. It's just no longer gender-based.

A gender line... helps to keep women not on a pedestal, but in a cage.

My job gives me the permission to ask really great questions, like, 'Are you sure you're not pissed at him?' or, 'Is the eating really about food, or does it have something to do with your mother?' or, 'How is your sex life? I mean, I know we're here talking about your job, but I can tell this has to do with your sex life.'

Every life - regardless of background or gender - has equal value.

American Idol transcends age, gender, ethnicity, everything.

Gender equality is one of the principles we will never compromise at Accenture.

Say you're a sex worker and your partner knows you're a sex worker, but you're not out to your family. That could be very dangerous, particularly in an unhealthy relationship, where it could be a recipe for conflict, for something potentially violent that could lead to someone going to jail. There's so much pressure because of the criminalization and stigma. If we lifted that, it's only going to benefit more women.

When I was a kid, I wanted to be a boy. I really had gender issues.

The days of a tennis champion as a gender rights leader are over.

If you look around Booking.com, it's a very gender-balanced company.

He's comming to meet me on Sun. Cant wait!!... Please God let him love me!!... This could be it [followed by five happy faces].... Hes going to publish my pictures Im so glad I didn't sleep with him either!... I hate for men to want sex all the time. I hate sex anyway. (1992, diary entry as she prepares for a meeting with Paul Marciano, head of Guess.)

Not one country in all the world has eliminated its economic participation [gender] gap - not one.

Gender is really varied and complicated and sort of infinitely individualistic.

I dislike arrogant men and diva behavior in either gender.

Sex is something I really don't understand too hot. You never know where the hell you are. I keep making up these sex rules for myself, and then I break them right away. Last year I made a rule that I was going to quit horsing around with girls that, deep down, gave me a pain in the ass. I broke it, though, the same week I made it - the same night, as a matter of fact.

Your gender becomes irrelevant when you are in a performance-based environment.

The government has to treat all citizens equally. I am a strong supporter not of a weak version of civil unions, but of a strong version, in which the rights that are conferred at the federal level to persons who are part of the same-sex union are compatible. When it comes to federal rights, the over 1,100 rights that right now are not being given to same-sex couples, I think that's unacceptable.

I never get to forget who I am, my gender identity.

No country in the world can yet say they have achieved gender equality.

As far as I'm concerned, being any gender is a drag.

I was assigned female at birth. My gender identify is non-binary.

A toy has no gender and no idea of whether a girl or boy is playing with it.

I think some of the best sex writing is going to come from the unexpected sources, not the same old same old. Like I'd love to see a memoir by a submissive man, because we've seen one from a professional submissive and dommes and strippers and hookers. I'd love to see more men writing frankly, not jokingly, about sex.

Life without sex might be safer but it would be unbearably dull. It is the sex instinct which makes women seem beautiful, which they are once in a blue moon, and men seem wise and brave, which they never are at all. Throttle it, denaturalize it, take it away, and human existence would be reduced to the prosaic, laborious, boresome, imbecile level of life in an anthill.

I tend to gravitate toward gender- and race-related stories.

Nowhere is woman treated according to the merit of her work, but rather as a sex. It is therefore almost inevitable that she should pay for her right to exist, to keep a position in whatever line, with sex favors. Thus it is merely a question of degree whether she sells herself to one man, in or out of marriage, or to many men!... The economic and social inferiority of woman is responsible for prostitution.

There are about a thousand different variations on a horse neigh. Some of them sound like a horse having sex, some of them like a horse having sad sex.

I don't see gender as the most significant fact of human existence.

We cannot base our judgment on binaries such as a person's gender.

I don't write about sex because it's not really my subject. I love it when other people write about it, but it's not my subject, and I don't want anyone I've had sex with to write about it. Plus, you're in front of an audience, and they picture wherever you're writing about. I'm 52; no one in the audience wants to picture that.

There is no denying that we have made great progress toward gender equality.

Whether we like it or not, gender differences matter in a combat situation.

Violence doesn't have a race, a class, a religion, or a nationality, but it does have a gender.

people share a common nature but are trained in gender roles.

I'm not trying to be a girl by putting on a dress - gender is separated by fabric.

I don't subscribe to that school of thought that leadership can be altogether defined by gender.

You literally can shoot someone in the face on television and a 7-year-old can watch it. But you can't show the slight of a man's hip, because dear God, someone might think of sex. And while we all hope our kids grow up to have sex, we do not hope they grow up to shoot someone in the face.

My definition of gender expands beyond just two genders.

I have disregarded gender when deciding which part to audition for.

Clearly, there is a gender imbalance when it comes to venture capital and entrepreneurship.

I can't change my gender, and I refuse to stop making movies.

war is a man's game ... the killing machine has a gender and it is male.

You should never be put into a mold based on your gender.

Every taxi driver I have ever spoken to has a theory of gender.

A middle ground might be to fight for same-sex marriage and its benefits and then, once granted, redefine the institution of marriage completely, to demand the right to marry not as a way of adhering to society's moral codes but rather to debunk a myth and radically alter an archaic institution. [Legalizing "same-sex marriage"] is also a chance to wholly transform the definition of family in American culture.

I never went through a gender identity problem, but I did with my sexuality.

Gender equality is more successful than armed force.

I guess professionally I've left my gender open to artistic interpretation.

But the novels of women were not affected only by the necessarily narrow range of the writer's experience. They showed, at least in the nineteenth century, another characteristic which may be traced to the writer's sex. In Middlemarch and in Jane Eyre we are conscious not merely of the writer's character, as we are conscious of the character of Charles Dickens, but we are conscious of a woman's presence of someone resenting the treatment of her sex and pleading for its rights.

Sexuality is who you are personally attracted to... But gender identity is who you are in your soul.

Many businesses understand the advantages of gender parity.

I went to college in Amherst and lived in Northampton for many years and we had our quaint little feminist sex toy shop that somehow made it in town and wasn't scandalous. But you still got the vibe once in awhile that this didn't used to be okay. That twenty years ago women would have come in saying, "You can't sell realistic-looking sex toys. You have to only sell things that look like dolphins or something."

We put a gender lens on our whole value chain.

Although I knew enough Freud to believe that the sex urge was an important mainspring of life, it still seemed to me that any conscious manifestation of sex was necessarily ludicrous. Defecation and copulation were two activities which made a human being totally ridiculous. At least the former could be conducted in private, but the latter by definition demanded a partner. I discovered, though, that whenever I ventured this opinion, people took it as a joke.

What the government and we in society need to do is to address the issue of gender justice.