Gendered Quotes

#1. We are literally linked in a circle, including with nature, as well as with other human beings. Old societies didn't have and still don't have "he" and "she." They don't have gendered pronouns. They don't have a word for nature, because we're not separate from nature.

Gloria Steinem

#2. I often like to talk about feminism not as something that adheres to bodies, not as something grounded in gendered bodies, but as an approach- as a way of conceptualizing, as a methodology, as a guide to strategies for struggle. That means feminism doesn't belong to anyone in particular

Angela Y. Davis

#3. Online harassment, especially gendered online harassment, is an epidemic. Women are being driven out; they're being driven offline. This isn't just in gaming. This is happening across the board online, especially with women who participate in or work in male-dominated industries.

Anita Sarkeesian

#4. Why do the gingerbread girls have to wear pink?" Penny asks.
"Why should the gingerbread girls feel like they shouldn't wear pink?" I say. "I like pink."
"Only because you've been conditioned to like it by Barbies and gendered Lego."
"Lay off, Penny. I've never played with Lego.

Rainbow Rowell

#5. Human beings don't necessarily exist inside of (or correspond to) the neat racial, gendered or national boxes into which we often unthinkingly place them.
It's a mistake to ask literature to reinforce such structures. Literature tends to crack them. Literature is where we free ourselves.

Mohsin Hamid

#6. So one of my responsibilities, as a white, cis-gendered woman, is to learn how to be a traitor to the 'joys' of patriarchal culture that I experience, however unconsciously.

Erin Wunker

#7. When people speak admiringly of a butch, what I see is someone who has taken on the best gendered characteristics of both woman and man, left a lot of the stuff born of misogyny and heterosexism behind, and walked forward into the world without apology.

S. Bear Bergman

#8. I don't have the panic I used to have, meeting people who are androgynous, but when you meet someone whose identity is unclear, that throws your own identity into flux because the way we treat each other is very gendered.

Alice Dreger

#9. Nature is gendered, but not sexist.

Janine Burke

#10. When you write, you are not either sex. But when you're read you are definitely gendered.

Hilary Mantel

#11. Within the gendered institution of prostitution, race and class create a hierarchy with indigenous women at its lowest point.

Melissa Farley

#12. I've been surprised at the number of people who were really angry that I tried to convey gender neutrality by using a gendered pronoun.

Ann Leckie

#13. The very act of accepting her position at Mademoiselle was an act of open defiance against Dick Norton, his entire family, and the gendered expectations of midcentury America.

Elizabeth Winder

#14. Technology is one of the key drivers of female economic empowerment, but the fields that women choose to participate in are still decidedly gendered.

Weili Dai

#15. The reality is is that Congress is a very male-gendered oriented institution. Out of the, you know, more than 10,000 people who've ever been elected to Congress, you know, only about 250 of them have ever been women.

Gwen Moore

#16. I think specifically because of the character that I played, people are very connected to her. I used to get letters from young gay and lesbian and trans-gendered kids saying, 'I didn't kill myself because of Buffy'.

Amber Benson

#17. I don't even wanna say female guitar-players, just guitar-players, because music of all things doesn't need to be gendered and stratified, that's so boring.

Annie E. Clark

#18. The old languages - at least the ones I know - don't have gender. They don't have gendered pronouns. There's no "he" and "she." A human being is a human being.

Gloria Steinem

#19. My childhood was as heavily gendered as any you would find in a working-class household in Lincolnshire.

Robert Webb

#20. Some men don't like female gendered credit cards.

Tarryn Fisher

#21. Studies introduced ideas such as the theory that parents pushing their children to play with gendered toys meant children learned to act a certain way according to whether they were a boy or a girl, which was then taken to mean they were "naturally" feminine/masculine.

Harriet Dyer

#22. I think artists are scared to have same-gendered pronouns in their writing, and I don't think it's because they're scared to be out, because gay artists are visible, but they don't want to alienate an audience.

Mary Lambert

#23. Some men explained why men explaining things to women wasn't really a gendered phenomenon. Usually, women pointed out that, in insisting on their right to dismiss the experiences women say they have, men succeeded in explaining in just the way I said they sometimes do.

Rebecca Solnit

#24. Men are every bit as gendered as women.

Jackson Katz

#25. I'm scared of failure all the time. But not scared enough to stop trying.

Ronda Rousey

#26. Some people are more fluid than others at just being themselves and recognizing what's good about themselves.

Jon Brion

#27. The wolfe eats oft of the sheep that have been warn'd.

George Herbert

#28. He was very commanding, and you had to know what you were doing to work for Mr. Rogers. I learned how to ride very quickly with him as my riding teacher.

Glenn Ford

#29. If you are thinking about something that happened a long time ago:
Somebody asked you a question and you did not know the answer.
That is my name.

Richard Brautigan

#30. Both of my hands wove into her hair again and clutched at the soft curls. No matter how I tightened my grip, the strands kept falling from my fingers, a shower of water from the sky.

Katie McGarry

#31. Every villain is a hero in his or her own mind.

Allison Brennan

#32. Let's count on God's promises because if He said it, surely it shall happen because He changes not.

Euginia Herlihy

#33. The racial divides in the United States will not be overcome until lynchings of all kinds are as painful to nonblacks as they are to blacks, until each of us become guardians of the sufferings history has bequeathed us.

Julius Lester

#34. World is supposed to mean something that's self-contained. but nothing is self-contained.

Don DeLillo

#35. In America, sex is an obsession, in other parts of the world it's a fact.

Marlene Dietrich

#36. The individual's habits of thought make an organic complex, the trend of which is necessarily in the direction of serviceability to the life process. When it is attempted to assimilate systematic waste or futility, as an end in life, into this organic complex, there presently supervenes a revulsion.

Thorstein Veblen

#37. No one is guaranteed their next moment, or their next breath; yet, humanity has a habit of thinking of its existence on the earth as eternal. Those who are rooted and grounded in Christ know that life is just a vapor.

Monica Johnson