901 Quotes About Gender
- Author Jodi Lynn Anderson
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But Tik Tok believes everything's circular, including men and women. He says nature seems to go around and around, and that we all have bits of everything.
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- Author Kate Bornstein
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Instead of saying that all gender is this or all gender is that, let's recognize that the word gender has scores of meaning built into it. It's an amalgamation of bodies, identities, and life experiences, subconscious urges, sensations, and behaviors, some of which develop organically, and others which are shaped by language and culture. Instead of saying that gender is any one single thing, let's start describing it as a holistic experience.
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- Author John Green
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Sorry," I said to the Duke."Eh, it's not your fault. It's Carla's fault. You were turning the wheel. Carla just wasn't listening. I knew I shouldn't have loved her. She's like all the others, Tobin; as soon as I confess my love, she abandons me."I laughed. "I never abandoned you," I said patting on her back."Yeah, well, (a.) I never confessed my love to you, and (b.) I'm not even female to you.
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- Author Robert Jordan
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I surrender to it, and by surrendering, I control it.
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- Author Kate Bornstein
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Let's stop pretending that we have all the answers, because when it comes to gender, none of us is fucking omniscient.
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- Author Paul Fussell
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If we do not redefine manhood, war is inevitable.
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- Author David Levithan
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Even though you're not my type, gender wise, you're certainly my type, person-wise.
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- Author Kate Bornstein
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While railing against the manufactured prerequisites of womanhood or manhood, we need to avoid manufacturing our own prerequisites. The non-operative journey and the objection to it illustrate just one area in which we need to open our thinking to other journeys while expecting that others respect our own. - Mercedes Allen
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- Author Louise Carey
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It's the story of the City of Women; of how it came to be, how it flourished, and how it was destroyed by a reckless and irrevocable act of mercy.
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