Quotes About Language And Gender

#1. My idea here is that, inasmuch as certain cognitive tasks and principles are tied to nature's laws, these tasks and principles are indifferent to language, culture, gender, or the particular mode of information that is provided.

Edward Tufte

#2. Gender is the poetry each of us makes out of the language we are taught.

Leslie Feinberg

#3. Our moral authority is as important, if not more important, than our troop strength or our high-tech weapons. We are rapidly losing that moral authority, not only in the Arab world but all over the world.

Robert Reich

#4. Sex is a matter of biology, while gender is a matter of grammar, and there is no earthly reason why sex should be involved in gender distinctions.

R.L. Trask

#5. White men in Europe and the US are the beneficiaries of the single greatest affirmative action program in the history of the world; it is called the history of the world.

Michael Kimmel

#6. God simply is," Bick said. "Humanity embraced It. They gave It color and gender, shape and form. They put words in Its mouth. They always have, and they still do, perhaps they always will. I always experience God as a 'He,' but God is too vast to be held prisoner by language of biology.

R.S. Belcher

#7. Had the facial plumage been of a paler hue it would have looked like a pile of horse crap on a winter's day.

St John Morris

#8. Women's body language speaks eloquently, though silently, of her subordinate status in a hierarchy of gender.

Sandra Bartky

#9. My hand tells me what I'm thinking.

Pablo Picasso

#10. The way I see it, you can live your life as is, continuing to feel like an underdog, or you can step up. Be someone who matters, and make a change.

Kayla Krantz

#11. She was probably male, to judge from the angular mazelike patterns quilting her shirt. I wasn't entirely certain. It wouldn't have mattered, if I had been in Radch space. Radchaai don't care much about gender, and the language they speak - my own first language - doesn't mark gender in any way.

Ann Leckie

#12. Do not ghettoize society by putting people into legal categories of gender, race, ethnicity, language, or other such characteristics.

Preston Manning

#13. The many factors which divide us are actually much more superficial than those we share. Despite all of the things that differentiate us - race, language, religion, gender, wealth and so on - we are all equal concerning our fundamental humanity.

Dalai Lama

#14. We are in the process of making the English language gender-neutral, and manliness, the quality of one gender, or rather, of one sex, seems to describe the essence of the enemy we are attacking, the evil we are eradicating.

Harvey Mansfield

#15. Eating is our earliest metaphor, preceding our consciousness of gender difference, race, nationality, and language. We eat before we talk.

Margaret Atwood

#16. If you can't find the next McDonald's, I'll find the next McDonald's. But it's vital to be with people who with looking for 'em, because they do exist. They are created.

Jim Cramer

#17. In contemporary parlance, sex is biological and gender is socially constructed.

Rebecca Solnit

#18. When you're about to die, your whole life's supposed to flash before your eyes. When you fall in true love, on the other hand, what you see in the twinkling of an eye is your entire future.

Tom Holt

#19. In language gender is particularly confusing. Why, please, should a table be male in German, female in French, and castrated in English?

Marlene Dietrich

#20. But we have yet to make peace basic to our education. The most important subject in the world is hardly taught at all. In the spirit of this passage, the editor has taken the liberty of editing Mr. Cousins' language to make it more gender inclusive.

Norman Cousins

#21. Women speak because they wish to speak, whereas a man speaks only when driven to speak by something outside himself-like, for instance, he can't find any clean socks.

Jean Kerr

#22. 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

#23. I make no apologies for you. After all, each one of us is little more than the meager residue of the infinite unrealized possibilities of our lives.

Gregory Frost

#24. Some version of 'Deal or No Deal' airs in 120 countries. And they play it exactly the same way, with models and briefcases. It crosses language and culture and gender, because it's the simplest game in the world, and everyone wants to press their luck.

Howie Mandel

#25. In the grammar of the phallus
the I, I, I
[woman] can't utter female experience.

Nancy Mairs