#gender

I'm not limited by my gender, and I don't think anyone else should be either. Because I am the age I am and I sort of rode the crest of the first profound post-suffragette feminists, I wasn't fighting to burn my bra. Those women fought that fight just seconds before I came into womanhood. ↗

— Ellen Barkin

#am #anyone #because #before #bra

You men,' she says. 'You durn men. ↗

— William Faulkner

#men

Valerie stood with the other women, watching the men go. She couldn't help bristling at this division of the sexes. Her fingers itched to hold a weapon, too, to do something, to kill something with her anger. ↗

— Sarah Blakley-Cartwright

#anger

As you get older it's more confusing. Suddenly, there's more pressure to fit in to your assigned gender. ↗

— Chastity Bono

#confusing #fit #gender #get #more

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

#ago #based #combat #controversial #discrimination

What is being called the UN 'gender architecture' is more like a shack. Women need a bigger global house if equality is ever to become a reality. ↗

— Charlotte Bunch

#become #being #bigger #called #equality

I believe all men, all women, regardless of race, gender, socioeconomic background, you deserve the same rights. ↗

— Sophia Bush

#believe #deserve #gender #i #i believe

There is no original or primary gender a drag imitates, but gender is a kind of imitation for which there is no original. ↗

— Judith Butler

#gender #imitates #imitation #kind #original

I told you in the course of this paper that Shakespeare had a sister; but do not look for her in Sir Sidney Lee's life of the poet. She died young--alas, she never wrote a word. She lies buried where the omnibuses now stop, opposite the Elephant and Castle. Now my belief is that this poet who never wrote a word and was buried at the crossroads still lives. She lives in you and in me, and in many other women who are not here tonight, for they are washing up the dishes and putting the children to bed. But she lives; for great poets do not die; they are continuing presences; they need only the opportunity to walk among us in the flesh. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#dignity #dreams #empowerment #equality #feminism

Revenge only engenders violence, not clarity and true peace. I think liberation must come from within. ↗

— Sandra Cisneros

#come #engenders #i #i think #liberation