Creating whole departments of ethnic, gender, and other 'studies' was part of the price of academic peace. All too often, these 'studies' are about propaganda rather than serious education.
Thomas Sowell
EducationPeaceGenderCreating
What I want is a world where neither gender nor sex are destiny. Where no child is ever told there's anything they can't do, or must do, 'because you're a boy' or 'because you're a girl.' It's not a world where anything is 'taken' from anyone - it's one where everyone's possibilities are enlarged.
Naomi Alderman
GirlChildWorldDestinyGenderYou
I grew up in a home where I was literally told from a young age, 'No daughter of mine will ever wash a man's socks,' and I am pleased to say I never have. It was made clear that whatever I wanted to do I should aspire to, regardless of my gender.
Noreena Hertz
HomeDaughterAgeManI AmGender
I never, ever grew up as a young woman believing that my gender would stand in the way of doing anything I wanted.
Jacinda Ardern
WomanStandGenderDoingYoungWay
The days of a tennis champion as a gender rights leader are over.
Rich Eisen
LeaderChampionGenderTennisOver
Dismissing socialization and gender roles as piddling compared to this amorphous idea of 'maternal imperative' is part of the reason progress is stalled for family-friendly policies.
Jessica Valenti
ProgressGenderReasonIdeaPart
I feel like a feminist is gender equality.
Ilana Glazer
EqualityFeelGenderI Feel Like
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
ThinkGenderMoreIndustryWhere
I say, 'I'm bi, my love knows no gender,' and the straight community says, 'Oh right, that's just a cover-up - you're gay!' And the gay community says, 'Yeah right, that's just a cover-up - you're gay.' They both want to push me gay.
Andy Dick
LoveCommunityMePushGenderYou
Sarah Palin is an heir to the women's movement. She has not been constrained by gender. At no point in her life has she thought, 'I can't do that because I'm a woman.'
Gail Collins
LifeWomenWomanThoughtGenderShe
I didn't want my gender to determine whether or not I could cover breaking news.
Lynsey Addario
GenderNewsWantBreakingCover
Our true nature is free of any and all notions of gender, of any notions of difference whatsoever.
Andrew Cohen
NatureFreeGenderTrueDifference
You don't go out and change your gender for a television show, O.K.? It ain't happening. I don't care who you are.
Caitlyn Jenner
ChangeCareGenderYouTelevision
I want to do right, apart from my gender - I want to do right as a campaign manager.
Kellyanne Conway
GenderWantManagerRightApart
My major obligation or responsibility is to work to integrate gender issues throughout the work of the State Department.
Melanne Verveer
WorkResponsibilityGenderObligation
The burden for achieving disarmament cannot be borne by peace groups alone. Everybody, regardless of age, income, profession, gender or nationality, has a stake in this quest.
Ban Ki-moon
AgeAlonePeaceGenderAchieving
When feminism does not explicitly oppose racism, and when anti-racism does not incorporate opposition to patriarchy, race and gender politics often end up being antagonistic to each other, and both interests lose.
Kimberle Williams Crenshaw
PoliticsRacismEndGenderLoseUp
In so much SF, either gender roles are the ones we're used to in the here and now, only transported to the future, or else they're supposedly different, but characters still are slotting into various stereotypes.
Ann Leckie
FutureGenderStereotypesNowHere
I'm a great example of somebody who is gay but exists on a very complicated gender spectrum. I'm okay with that uncertainty, and I'm okay with existing in a gray area and not always being sure.
King Princess
GreatUncertaintyGenderGayOkay
The way I approach the character isn't about being gay or straight. It's just about who you love. Gender has very little to do with it.
Mia Kirshner
LoveCharacterGenderYouGayWay
The whole idea that someone should not be able to marry who they love based on their gender and their preference is ridiculous.
Jane Wiedlin
LoveSomeoneGenderRidiculousWhole
I don't think gender even exists.
Amandla Stenberg
ThinkGenderEvenExists
What interested me, was that as we age, those seemingly unbreakable barriers that define us, our gender, they begin to crack, to blur; they're not absolutes anymore.
Glenda Jackson
AgeMeBlurGenderBarriersBegin
One thing standing in the way of further progress for many men is the same obstacle that held women back for so long: overinvestment in their gender identity instead of their individual personhood.
Stephanie Coontz
WomenMenProgressIdentityGender
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