901 Quotes About Gender
- Author Connor Franta
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Girls can be athletic. Guys can have feelings. Girls can be smart. Guys can be creative. And vice versa. Gender is specific only to your reproductive organs (and sometimes not even to those), not your interest, likes, dislikes, goals, and ambitions.
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- Author Chimamamda Ngozi Adichie
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We teach girls shame. Close your legs; cover yourself. We make them feel as though being born female, they're already guilty of something. And so, girls grow up to be women who silence themselves. They grow up to be women who cannot say what they truly think. And they grow up--and this is the worst thing we do to girls--they grow up to be women who have turned pretense into an art form.
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- Author Abhijit Naskar
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Other than in bed, gender has no role in society.
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- Author Julia Finley Mosca
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We're EQUAL - all genders, all shades.
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- Author George Meredith
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Why mayn't they do what men do?' the Hero cried impetuously. 'I hate that contemptible narrow-mindedness. It's that that makes the ruin and horrors I see. Why mayn't they do what men do? I like the women who are brave enough not to be hypocrites. By Heaven! if these women are bad, I like them better than a set of hypocritical creatures who are all show, and deceive you in the end.
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- Author Ijeoma Umebinyuo
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You teach your daughtershow to rub poison on their skinrememberto teach your sonshow not to be serpents.
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- Author Meredith Russo
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I thought of going the rest of my life pretending I sprang to life from nothing at sixteen years old and felt my cheeks flush with shame and anger. I was so tired of cowering. I was so tired of hiding. I wanted to tell the truth, to say it out loud.
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- Author Alison Bechdel
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It's imprecise and insufficient, defining the homosexual as a person whose gender expression is at odds with his or her sex.
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- Author Bell Hooks
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Significantly, in future feminist movement we will spend less time critiquing patriarchal marriage bonds and expend more effort showing alternatives, showing the value of peer relationships which are founded on principles of equality, respect, and the belief that mutual satisfaction and growth are needed for partnerships to be fulfilling and lasting.
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