40 Inspiring Quotes On Gender

 

1. Gender is the poetry each of us makes out of the language we are taught. -Leslie Feinberg

2. Gender is irrelevant. Certainly the tennis ball doesn’t know what the gender was of the tennis coach. -Martina Navratilova

 

3. We keep everything gender neutral. -Sarah McDonald

 

4. That gender is a choice, or that gender is a role, or that gender is a construction that one puts on, as one puts on clothes in the morning, that there is a ‘one’ who is prior to this gender, a one who goes to the wardrobe of gender and decides with deliberation which gender it will be today. -Judith Butler

 

5. If there were genders to genres, fiction would be unquestionably feminine. -William H. Gass

6. Gender preference does not define you. Your spirit defines you. -P. C. Cast

 

7. To say that gender is performative is a little different because for something to be performative means that it produces a series of effects. We act and walk and speak and talk in ways that consolidate an impression of being a man or being a woman. -Judith Butler

 

8. Gender equality is more successful than armed force. -Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero

 

9. When gender comes down upon us, male or female, it comes as a restriction. -Gloria Steinem

 

10. Gender is a social construct, but everyone likes to cuddle. -Danielle Henderson

11. Gender based violence anywhere is a threat to peace and security everywhere. -John F Kerry

 

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

 

13. Thus, gender ideology no only creates ides about femininity but it also shapes conceptions of masculinity. -Patricia Hill Collins

 

14. A gender-equal society would be one where the word gender does not exist: where everyone can be themselves. -Gloria Steinem

 

15. Every life regardless of background or gender has equal value. -Mohamed Bin Issa Al Jaber

16. The problem with gender is that it prescribes how we should be, rather than recognising how we are. -Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

 

17. Gender is really varied and complicated and sort of infinitely individualistic. -Susan Faludi

 

18. Gender is between your ears and not between your legs. -Chaz Bono

 

19. Your gender identity is who you are. Sexual identity is who you bounce that off of. -Andrew Solomon

 

20. The most important thing is to have a more open and honest dialogue about gender issues. -Sheryl Sandberg

21. Yes, there’s a problem with gender as it is today, and we must fix it, we must do better. -Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

 

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

 

23. Gender has become part of the defining way that youth organise themselves and rebel against adults. -Caitlin Ryan

 

24. Gender consciousness has become involved in almost every intellectual field: history, literature, science, anthropology. There’s been an extraordinary advance. -Clifford Geertz

 

25. Whether we like it or not, gender differences matter in a combat situation. -Pete Hegseth

26. There is no gender identity behind the expressions of gender identity is performatively constituted by the very expressions that are said to be its results. -Judith Butler

 

27. Gender equality must become a lived reality. -Michelle Bachelet

 

28. Gender mattered a whole lot less to Shakespeare than it seems to matter to us. -John Irving

 

29. Gender is not something that one is, it is something one does, an act a doing rather than a being. -Judith Butler

 

30. There are gender health differences, and we need to know what they are. -Laura Bush

 

31. Freedom cannot be achieved unless women have been emancipated from all kinds of oppression. -Nelson Mandela

 

32. Find your identity, your true self and live your mission … Your power is your radical self. Find it. -Aya Chebbi

 

33. If you believe in your idea of change and are willing to work hard, sooner or later that dream will be a reality. -Naomi Tulay Solanke

 

34. An undying spirit is the primary source of help because it is within you. -Fridah Githuku

 

35. Being a young African girl is not a hurdle to overcome, but a force to be reckoned with. -Dr. Joannie Marlene Bewa

 

36. You will often feel as if you don’t fit, but it has never been your destiny to fit in. You were born to stand out. -Melene Rossouw

 

37. Life doesn’t always give us what we deserve, but rather, what we demand. And so you must continue to push harder than any other person in the room. -Wadi Ben-Hirki

 

38. t is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs. -Thomas Hardy

 

39.  Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female – whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male. -Simone de Beauvoir

 

40. Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent. -Friedrich Nietzsche