901 Quotes About Gender

Last night I was seriously considering whether I was a bisexual or not but I don’t think so though I’m not sure if I’d like to be and argh I don’t think there’s anything wrong with that, if you like a person, you like the person, not their genitals.

The entire human lexicon would mean absolutely nothing, if women didn't exist in the world.

But history, real solemn history, I cannot be interested in. Can you?""Yes, I am fond of history.""I wish I were too. I read it a little as a duty, but it tells me nothing that does not either vex or weary me. The quarrels of popes and kings, with wars or pestilences, in every page; the men all so good for nothing, and hardly any women at all -- it is very tiresome.

Education about gender and peace is important. Educational strategies to promote peace must consider all relations of dominance.

Excessive praise arises from the same bigotry matrix as excessive criticism.

She could just pack up and leave, but she does not visualize what's beyond ahead.

My change from girl to boy was far less dramatic than the distance anybody travels from infancy to adulthood.

Women speak because they wish to speak, whereas a man speaks only when driven to speak by something outside himself-like, for instance, he can't find any clean socks.

[T]he full and complete development of a country, the welfare of the world and the cause of peace require the maximum participation of women on equal terms with men in all fields."[Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (1979)]