Top 1200 Sex And Gender Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

In some instances, a gender imbalance is indeed a manifestation of sexism. In others, it is not.

There is no such thing in the Lord's eyes as something called same-gender marriage.

Gender fluidity is not really feeling like you're at one end of the spectrum or the other.

To make a good film is an art. Gender is irrelevant when it comes to craft of filmmaking.

The military has been actually remarkable at dealing with race, but gender is an issue.

We don't need women. There are plenty other things in the world to have sex with, just go to a sexaholics meeting and take notes. There's microwaved watermelons. There's the vibrating handles of lawn mowers right at crotch level. There's vacuum cleaners and beanbag chairs. Internet sites. All those old chat room sex hounds pretending to be sixteen-year-old girls. For serious, old FBI guys makes the sexiest cyberbabes.

It's in everyone's best interest to help close the gender gap in the sciences.

I have gender dysphoria and body dysmorphia. I don't like to see pictures of myself.

I think everyone should be happy. I think a fool is going to go against same sex marriage at this point. Look how long it took him [Obama] to say he was for same sex marriages. You understand? I'm up for it. If everyone else is for it, then hey, to each his own. I don't have personal feelings towards it because I'm not involved in that lifestyle. I want people to be happy. It makes for everything to be better

I began wanting to create a detective who really turned the tables on that image of women, to know that you could have a sex life and not be a bad person. You could have a sex life and still solve your own problems. It was eight years from when I started having the fantasy that I was going to create such a detective to when I actually sat down and came up with V. I. Warshawski. It was a long, slow journey to come to a writing voice and do that character.

The 'Crossfire' demographic is all-encompassing. Age, gender, religion, culture... it doesn't matter.

Regardless of age, gender, or game experience, anyone can understand Wii.

Kindness and gentleness never had a gender, and neither did empathy.

You don't go out and change your gender for a television show, O.K.? It ain't happening. I don't care who you are.

Prejudice against womenis many, many times intensified against older women. You are viewed not as an intellect but as a body.... Astonishingly, even women's liberation has paid extraordinarily little attention to the older woman and to the fact that her job is limited because she is [older]. They say that women shouldn't be sex objects, but you damned well better be a sex object if you want to get ahead in television.

Gender is more of a continuum than we are willing to admit when we hit the restroom.

That one can love another of the same gender, that is what the homophobe really cannot stand.

More people saw me than saw Napoleon, Lincoln and Cleopatra. I was better known than Einstein and Picasso. ... I changed the fashion of two continents. The style of the Gay Nineties became the rage ... women were trying to walk and talk like me. Women became more sex-conscious - sex was out in the open and fun.

The moral case for gender equality is obvious. It should not need any explanation.

There are probably industries where gender is more of an issue, but our industry is not one where I think that's relevant.

Drag queen is a gender like no other, and with practice I'd learned to rise to it.

There's no denial that one's gender orientation is certainly a core characteristic of any person, but it's not the only one.

Just being gender non-conforming opens you to trouble from strangers. And violence.

I'm known for being annoyingly gender-focused. It's always been my platform.

As a female, you're always terrified that if you blow it, you've blown it for your whole gender.

This is the way I look at sex scenes: I have basically been doing them for a living for years. Trying to seduce an audience is the basis of rock 'n roll, and if I may say so, I'm pretty good at it...Plus, being married and monogamous, it's the closest thing I can do to having sex without getting in trouble for it...The only thing I like more than my wife is my money, and I'm not about to lose that to her and her lawyers, that's for damn sure.

A hero could be anyone who does something heroic, irrespective of the gender.

Gender based violence anywhere is a threat to peace and security everywhere.

The modern campus is deeply obsessed by race and gender, and not much else.

All human beings deserve equal treatment, no matter their gender identity or sexuality.

Achieving gender equality is about disrupting the status quo - not negotiating it.

If you fall in love with someone gay and you're the opposite gender, it's not going to work.

Being accused of making money by selling sex in Hollywood, home of the casting couch and the gratuitous nude scene, is so rich with irony that it's a better subject for a comic novel than a column.... On one coast the cops are busting sex workers on Eighth Avenue, dragging them downtown to night court where they pay the fine and go right back to their corner; on another they're charging Heidi Fleiss with pandering in a town in which the verb is an art form.

I don't care what gender someone is, or what race they are. Those things don't matter to me.

The world belongs to those who want to make a difference, and gender is no barrier.

I don't think bullying is gender or age-related or dependent on what section of society you are coming from.

Gender is a way to hide from the simple truth we all tell: 'Hey, I'm here, I have a body.'

I don’t care what gender someone is, or what race they are. Those things don’t matter to me.

One training device is the ergometer. I never owned one, never trained on one, and practically never used one. The few national team tests I took on ergs were dismal failures, which worked wonders to further my dislike of these beastly creatures. Boring. Tedious. Noisy. Ergs have greatly cheapened rowing. Graceless. Greasy. Grim. The erg is to rowing what having sex by yourself is to having sex. Stop it!

Gender is the poetry each of us makes out of the language we are taught.

In politics, during my organisational roles, I have never seen gender bias within my organisation.

Equality for all is what we should all want, between race, religion, gender, sexuality... it doesn't matter.

I would like to see the breakdown of the binary way of looking at gender and sexuality.

It is indeed a misfortune for a woman to be without beauty, as with men the eye is the chief arbiter of qualities in the sex. Her beauty is her capital--her worth in the market matrimonial depends upon it. With her the Virtues are less reverenced when unaccompanied by the Graces. The sex understand this very well; and hence they seek mainly to make captive the eye, knowing the mind and heart will follow as a matter of course.

When sex desire arises, one simply pays total attention to it, not judging, not saying this is good or bad not saying this is evil, not saying that this is a provocation from the devil. No - no evaluation at all because all valuation belongs to the mind and witnessing is not of the mind. Good, bad - distinctions all belong to the mind, and the witnessing is undivided, one. It is neither good nor bad, it simply is. One pays attention to hunger or to the sex desire, total attention - and total attention is such an energy, it is fire-the hunger simply is burned, the sex desire is simply burned.

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

Hopefully in the future, generational challenges will be measured by achievement, not gender.

It's my experience that you first feel the impulse to write in your chest. It's like falling in love, only more so. It feels like something criminal. It feels like unspeakably wild sex. So, think: When you feel the overpowering need to go out and find some unspeakably wild sex, do you rush to tell your mom about it?

For every woman and girl violently attacked, we reduce our humanity. For every woman forced into unprotected sex because men demand this, we destroy dignity and pride. Every woman who has to sell her life for sex we condemn to a lifetime in prison. For every moment we remain silent, we conspire against our women. For every woman infected by HIV, we destroy a generation.

When the gender role starts to descend, boys get into the masculine box.

They can get married. They can marry a man if they're a woman. Or they can marry a woman if they're a man... there are no special rights for people based upon your sex practices. There's no special rights based upon what you do in your sex life. You're an American citizen first and foremost and that's it.

I definitely think awards ceremonies should have gender-neutral categories.

Any kind of gender expression is performance for me, regardless of where it is on the spectrum.

Motherhood is a greater predictor of wage inequality than gender is. It's enormous.

It is not my behavior to either wear minimum clothes, to band or to even be comfortable with a sex-symbol label. I just want to do fine work instead of sporting such meaningless tags. Sex sells, but to a small extent, not always. And this is what filmmakers have to accept. The exposure has to be significant to the film and its characters and not forced for the sake of titillation. On the contrary, some of the greatest Indian films have been devoid of all these sexual trappings. I know my comfort zone in today's Indian culture and society.

We recognize that same-sex marriage makes some people deeply uncomfortable. However, inertia and apprehension are not legitimate bases for denying same-sex couples due process and equal protection of the laws. Civil marriage is one of the cornerstones of our way of life. It allows individuals to celebrate and publicly declare their intentions to form lifelong partnerships, which provide unparalleled intimacy, companionship, emotional support and security.

I didn't want my gender to determine whether or not I could cover breaking news.

Classically, there are three ways in which humans try to find transcendence--religious meaning--apart from God as revealed through the cross of Jesus: through the ecstasy of alcohol and drugs, through the ecstasy of recreational sex, through the ecstasy of crowds. Church leaders frequently warn against the drugs and the sex, but at least, in America, almost never against the crowds.

I've been speaking out about harassment and gender disparity for years.

When human beings are regarded as moral beings, sex, instead of being enthroned upon the summit, administering upon rights and responsibilities, sinks into insignificance and nothingness. My doctrine then is, that whatever it is morally right for man to do, it is morally right for woman to do. Our duties originate, not from difference of sex, but from the diversity of our relations in life, the various gifts and talents committed to our care, and the different eras in which we live.