Quotes About Gender Discrimination

#1. 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

#2. ( ... ) once a woman achieves success, particularly in a gender-biased context, her capacity to see gender discrimination is reduced.

Sheryl Sandberg

#3. The other day, I noticed I'd arranged my spices in alphabetical order when I was on the phone, without even realizing, and when I was a kid I was constantly cleaning and organizing things - my toys, my sister's cosmetics.

Jayma Mays

#4. The main "food" God has given to strengthen us is the Bible, the Word of God.

Billy Graham

#5. A womanly occupation means, practically, an occupation that a man disdains.

George Gissing

#6. Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart.

Charles Dickens

#7. I'm more interested in a feminism that ends discrimination for all people. It's not just about a woman becoming the CEO of a company or something. It's connected to racism and classism and gender issues that go beyond the binary.

Kathleen Hanna

#8. [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)]

United Nations

#9. I like California a lot more than New York these days.

Dee Dee Ramone

#10. So much has happened to obscure the dialogue about race and about gender and discrimination in general, especially where those things touch on economics.

Tracy Chapman

#11. I have a burning desire to entertain and different mediums allow me to do this in different ways.

Adi Shankar

#12. Blatant, intentional discrimination against women is far from being something merely to be read about in history books.

Cordelia Fine

#13. People call me a feminist whenever I express statements that distinguish me from a doormat.

Rebecca West

#14. We still have gaps that are rooted in gender inequality. Certainly we have discrimination against the LGBT community.

Hillary Clinton

#15. It is "humanism" that should run in the veins of the thinking humanity, not a certain gender-oriented "ism". This entire book is a treatise on gender equality, and as such, it may be hailed as a work of feminism, but it is not - it is a work of humanism.

Abhijit Naskar

#16. Gender empowerment doesn't mean discrimination, It only means equality.

Mohith Agadi

#17. I was a virgin before you. You woke a sleeping demon, Regan. I tried to sate it myself, but failed. Now you're going to deal with the consequences.

Larissa Ione

#18. All human beings bear God's image and must be respected for what each person is. Therefore, no external description of one's being, whether based on race, ethnicity, gender or sexual orientation, can properly be used as the basis for either rejection or discrimination.

John Shelby Spong

#19. Hopefully, 21 years later, Judge Roberts possesses an openness with respect to issues of gender-based wage discrimination.

Olympia Snowe

#20. For far too long, the female gender has been plagued with stereotypes, typecasting, as well as, subtle and blatant discrimination.

Asa Don Brown

#21. The feminists had destroyed the old image of woman, but they could not erase the hostility, the prejudice, the discrimination that still remained.

Betty Friedan

#22. Sometimes that which is most precious can be found where you would least expect to.

David Gaider

#23. Analysis does not take into account the creative products of neurotic desires.

Anais Nin

#24. To write lyrics and sing stuff used to be a real chore for me, especially before this 'Diamond Eyes' record. I was spending years making records.

Chino Moreno

#25. I am proud to state that every national Jewish organization we support enforces non-discrimination practices around sexual orientation and that more than 70 percent have written policies in place covering gender identity and expression.

Lynn Schusterman

#26. Sexual, racial, gender violence and other forms of discrimination and violence in a culture cannot be eliminated without changing culture.

Charlotte Bunch

#27. There are still traces of discrimination against race and gender, but it's a lot different than when I started out. It just comes quietly, slowly, sometimes so quietly that you don't realize it until you start looking back.

Eddie Bernice Johnson

#28. But as I peeked at my brother's inert body ... I was aware only of what a strange thing it was to be male. Society discriminated against women, no question. But what about the discrimination of being sent war? Which sex was really thought to be expendable.

Jeffrey Eugenides

#29. Tears don't make you a girl, but they sure make you human.

Mansi Tejpal

#30. Never judge people based on their nationality, religion, race, gender, skin colour or look. Humans are all the same. They're God's loving children." Angel of Hope

Lily Amis

#31. He who is faithful over a few things is a lord of cities. It does not matter whether you preach in Westminster Abbey or teach a ragged class, so you be faithful. The faithfulness is all.

George MacDonald

#32. When I get a case about discrimination, I have to think about people in my own family who suffered discrimination because of their ethnic background or because of religion or because of gender. And I do take that into account.

Samuel Alito

#33. We pledge ourselves to liberate all our people from the continuing bondage of poverty, deprivation, suffering, gender and other discrimination.

Nelson Mandela

#34. Thirty years ago, in 1976, the notion of organized activity to combat discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity was an extremely controversial one.

Robert Brady

#35. I detest common heroes and moderate feelings, the sort that exist in real life

Gustave Flaubert

#36. Empowered Women 101: Happiness is something that you establish before a relationship. It is not the relationship that establishes it first.

Shannon L. Alder