Top 1200 Sex And Gender Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

Sisterhood cannot be assumed on the basis of gender; it must be forged in concrete historical and political practice and analysis

I see the effects of sexual and gender liberation all around me, just like you do, but I don't have a sense of being in the majority.

Gender-based violence is one of the most pervasive and yet least-recognized human rights abuses in the world.

'Man up' is a sexist term that should be retired along with all the other gender-based imperious imperatives.

Even at legal brothels, sex workers have very little power and control over their workplace. They might have power with their customers on a case-by-case basis in terms of what they want to do and not do, but they don't necessarily have a lot of power in how that business operates. There's this presumption that sex workers are broken people, so how could they engage in something like workplace democracy? How could they even have demands?

A character on a page has to feel real, and for me the greatest fun is if you could gender-swap the role.

Bones tell me the story of a person's life - how old they were, what their gender was, their ancestral background.

At Ozon, salaries are evaluated every year based on market benchmarks which are gender neutral.

Thus, gender ideology no only creates ides about femininity but it also shapes conceptions of masculinity.

We are still vulnerable to gender-targeted marketing no matter how carefully we edit our children's bookshelves.

Let me very proudly say that as a television actor, I never, ever saw any gender bias.

Issues of the economy are profoundly affected by how you live out sexual orientation and gender identity.

As physics has proven, we're ultimately particulate matter, which means we are all one. That's why racial and gender bias is so ridiculous.

Here we meet, on the page, naked and unadorned: shorn of class, race, gender, sexual identity, age and nationality.

I have always been interested in gender politics, so I'm not that keen on doing things that don't represent a truth about women.

When I say that children should be told about sex, I do not mean that they should be told only the bare physiological facts; they should be told whatever they wish to know. There should be no attempt to represent adults as more virtuous than they are, or sex as occurring only in marriage. There is no excuse for deceiving children. And when, as must happen in conventional families, they find that their parents have lied, they lose confidence in them, and feel justified in lying to them.

When two individuals come together and leave their gender outside the bedroom door, then they make love.

Looking at health through a gender lens is the first step to a more helpful and personalized approach to healing.

It's important to me that youth everywhere, no matter their race, religion, or gender, know that anything is possible with perseverance.

Sex is difficult, yes. But they are difficult things with which we have been charged...If you only recognize this and manage out of yourself, out of your own nature and ways, out of your own experience and childhood and strength to achieve a relation to sex wholly your own (not influenced by convention and custom) then you need no longer be afraid of losing yourself and becoming unworthy of your best possession.

The connection between women's human rights, gender equality, socioeconomic development and peace is increasingly apparent.

The person who is free of sexuality, whose sexuality has become a transformed phenomenon, is also free of money, is also free of ambition, is also free of the desire to be famous. Immediately all these things disappear from his life. The moment sex energy starts rising upwards, the moment sex energy starts becoming love, prayer, meditation, then all lower manifestations disappear.

Just because the gender of the vocalist is the same, that doesn't actually tell you anything about the sound of the band.

I think that there's so many versions of femininity, and in terms of gender as a binary construct, that seems to be being dismantled.

I find the question of whether gender differences are biologically determined or socially constructed to be deeply disturbing.

All young people, regardless of their sexual orientation or gender identity, need someone who's got their back.

I find it ridiculous to assign a gender to an inanimate object incapable of disrobing and making an occasional fool of itself.

I hate [ebooks]. It's like making believe there's another kind of sex. There isn't another kind of sex. There isn't another kind of book! A book is a book is a book.

And whatsoever is repressed has to be repressed again because victory is never complete. There is no way to destroy sex by force, by violence. There is no way to control and discipline it. The people who have tried to control and discipline it have made the world very pornographic. Your so-called saints have a very pornographic mind. If a window can be created and a hole can be made in their heads, you will be able to see just sex, pornography. it is bound to be so. It is natural.

As women are empowered, violence can come down, for a number of reasons. By all measures, men are the more violent gender.

Bisexuality doubles your chances of a date on a Saturday night. I believe that sex is a beautiful thing between two people. Between five, it's fantastic. If there is reincarnation, I'd like to come back as Warren Beatty's fingertips. I'm such a good lover because I practice a lot on my own. My love life is terrible. The last time I was inside a woman was when I visited the Statue of Liberty. Sex without love is an empty experience, but as empty experiences go it's a pretty good one.

Homosexuality is genetically hardwired but race and gender are only ideas. OK. Just trying to keep up.

Do not ghettoize society by putting people into legal categories of gender, race, ethnicity, language, or other such characteristics.

When I was a prepubescent child, I never really had experiences of gender dysphoria. This is not something that started until adolescence.

Not unlike gender reassignment surgery, someone determines that they are of a different race on the inside and they wish to surgically correct that.

Women's body language speaks eloquently, though silently, of her subordinate status in a hierarchy of gender.

How the hell can you change gender in the rural areas? I am a woman. We don't have good doctors; we are not rich to do such procedures.

Typical news accounts and commentaries about school shootings and rampage killings rarely mention gender.

I never knew that Americans would take up soccer, and it's a gender-free sport in high school there.

We were unusually brought up; there was no gender differentiation. I was never thought of as any less than my brother.

Why are we only talking about gender discrimination. We need to focus on the other kinds of discriminations in practice.

I support, defend, and admire prostitutes, gay or straight. They do important and necessary work, whether moralists of the Left and Right like it or not. Feminists who think they can abolish the sex trade are in a state of massive delusion. Only a ruthless, fascist regime of vast scale could eradicate the rogue sex impulse that is indistinguishable from the life force. Simply in the Western world, pagan sexuality has survived 2000 years of Judaeo-Christian persecution and is hardly going to be defeated by a few feminists whacking at it with their brooms.

Gender is an identity tenuously constituted in time, instituted in an exterior space through a stylized repetition of acts.

We will not achieve gender equality in the workplace until we fix our system of parental leave.

I do think the attempt to raise consciousness has succeeded. People are very aware of gender concerns now.

As a drag performer, my identity exists in music, art, and fashion, not in any one 'language' of gender or 'appearance.'

While dressing up as Courtney is a performance, there is a part of me that is expressing my gender in feminine and masculine ways.

Breaking gender norms just comes instantly as soon as a boy is comfortable and confident enough to put on makeup.

We remain a highly unequal society in which poverty and prosperity are still defined by race as well as gender.

Sex divorced from love, instead of raising man by taking him away from himself, drags him down to the hall of mirrors where he is always confronted with self. Sex does not care about the person, but about the act. The fig leaf which once was put over the secret parts of man and woman in sculpture is now put over the face. The person does not matter.

Until we as a gender refuse to wear any shoe that would be uncomfortable to walk a mile in, we’re perfectly screwed.

I was really raised in a gender-neutral household. I always knew I was a girl, but it never occurred to me that there was a limitation.

The study of gender and language might seem at first to be a narrowly focused field, but it is actually as interdisciplinary as they come.

My father always defined my gender to my brothers. He'd say, 'This is your sister; you must take care of her.'

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

Painting is situational. And my particular situation exists within gender, race, class, sexuality, nation.

I believe all men, all women, regardless of race, gender, socioeconomic background, you deserve the same rights.

I feel like I have had to catch up to the art I've made, and learn from the protagonists I have written, especially in relation to gender.

Civility is the recognition that all people have dignity that's inherent to their person, no matter their religion, race, gender, sexuality, or ability.

I'm pretty sure Magic Mike' is the best funded gender studies thesis ever so I'm going to have to see that.