Gender Issue Quotes

#1. I have never been good at doing impressions of women. Which is understandable. There's a gender issue.

Rory Bremner

#2. Every woman I know, particularly the senior ones, has been called too aggressive at work. We know in gender blind studies that men are more aggressive in their offices than women. We know that. Yet we're busy telling all the women that they're too aggressive. That's the issue.

Sheryl Sandberg

#3. May the death penalty, an unworthy punishment still used in some countries, be abolished throughout the world.

Pope John Paul II

#4. When I wrote 'Dear Fatty,' I realised that sitting and writing alone is an absolute joy.

Dawn French

#5. And I also see how this body influences external images: it gives back movement to them.

Henri Bergson

#6. I have to admit, I was quite insensitive to the issue of gender inequality in the workplace until a few years ago.

Naina Lal Kidwai

#7. The issue of gender was never my biggest concern; my biggest concern was doing good work. When the feminist movement really got going, I wasn't an active part of it because I was more concerned with my own mental pursuits.

Patti Smith

#8. As a partner in a firm full of women who work outside of the home as well as stay at home mothers, all with plenty of children, gender equality is not a talking point for me. It is an issue I live every day.

Hilary Rosen

#9. Being a recording artist and having thousands of people listening to your music and singing your songs, and paying for it? It feels great!

PJ Harvey

#10. I never go anywhere and encourage people to get married to someone of the same gender or to have abortions - the issue never comes up.

Cindy Sheehan

#11. On the most recent battles on health insurance reform, the women led the battle to end gender discrimination by the insurance companies [where] women paid more and got less of a benefit, and also the whole issue of prevention.

Barbara Mikulski

#12. The gender gap looks at this point like it's going to favor the president, particularly among white suburban women. I certainly think it's going to be an issue. But I think the single most important thing in this election will be turnout.

Anna Quindlen

#13. A student's mentality in learning martial arts is to overcome one's problems.

Ip Chun

#14. Both my mother's family and my father's family go back almost a hundred years in the district. I was born in the district, raised in the district, raised my family in the district. And so that's the way I see myself.

Ann Kirkpatrick

#15. I personally believe that gender equality underlines every other equality, and certainly the issue of sexuality. For instance, if we didn't distinguish between gender, in terms of giving different genders disparate values and attributes, what problem would we have with two men loving each other?

Abigail Tarttelin

#16. It seems to me to be kind of inescapable that one has to be interested in the issue of gender and gender equality. I don't really expect any credit for going in that direction. It's the only natural direction to go in. Why is it that some people don't see that as so patently obvious as it should be?

Amartya Sen

#17. Setting aside the issue of gender while highlighting the symmetry of bodies seemed indispensable in order to focus on the narrative of human beings in the making.

Alante Kavaite

#18. I became involved in photography when I was about thirteen years old.

Leonard Nimoy

#19. When migraines briefly became a campaign issue for me, it appeared that political foes were maybe playing the gender card.

Michele Bachmann

#20. Calling gender violence a women's issue is part of the problem. It gives a lot of men an excuse not to pay attention.

Jackson Katz

#21. Men - I would like to take this opportunity to extend your formal invitation. Gender equality is your issue too.

Emma Watson

#22. Teenagers are people who act like babies if they're not treated like adults.

Harvey Kurtzman

#23. Know your number. If you don't know it you might forget who you are.

Diane Samuels

#24. If I lived here, ... I have a feeling this place would take me.

Frances Mayes

#25. [S]ex trafficking and mass rape should no more be seen as women's issues than slavery was a black issue or the Holocaust was a Jewish issue. These are all humanitarian concerns, transcending any one race, gender, or creed.

Nicholas D. Kristof And Sheryl WuDunn

#26. It's easy to fictionalize an issue when you're not aware of the many ways in which you are privileged by it.

Kate Bornstein

#27. But when one believes in the reality of things, making them visible by artificial means is not quite the same as feeling that they are close at hand.

Marcel Proust

#28. I am not sure gender ever won't be an issue in comedy, because I think that women do have different priorities in some respects.

Jenny Eclair

#29. I knew most of my radio listeners were lefty political people, and I decided definitively not to be that guy - not to address politics.

Marc Maron

#30. But the issue of sexual harassment is not the end of it. There are other issues - political issues, gender issues - that people need to be educated about.

Anita Hill

#31. So when I was about 13 or 14, I realized I was attracted to women and then made the assumption that I was a lesbian, and didn't realize that that wasn't the case. It was the fact that I was a man and a heterosexual man. The issue wasn't my sexual orientation, but rather my gender identity.

Chaz Bono

#32. The one thing that advances a society is not technology or so-called development; it's love - that one principle.

Tom Shadyac

#33. My gender has never been an issue or a limitation. I was fortunate enough to be surrounded by strong women growing up, and with them as my role models, I was never limited by the traditional roles women find themselves in.

Brenda Brathwaite

#34. There are probably industries where gender is more of an issue, but our industry is not one where I think that's relevant.

Marissa Mayer

#35. You know, my mum's always encouraged me and never made my gender an issue, I guess. She brought me up to believe in equality, as opposed to feminism or sexism - so it just meant that my gender was not relevant to what I was capable of achieving.

Paloma Faith

#36. We have an abundance of rape and violence against women in this country and on this Earth, though it's almost never treated as a civil rights or human rights issue, or a crisis, or even a pattern. Violence doesn't have a race, a class, a religion, or a nationality, but it does have a gender.

Rebecca Solnit