#gender

Even for women without children, trading hours that produce income for hours that produce “only” art seems like a foolish decision. What a loss for the world, though, to have women's voices silenced because art is our last priority. ↗

— Holly Robinson

#gender #women #art

Instead of saying that all gender is this or all gender is that, let's recognize that the word gender has scores of meaning built into it. It's an amalgamation of bodies, identities, and life experiences, subconscious urges, sensations, and behaviors, some of which develop organically, and others which are shaped by language and culture. Instead of saying that gender is any one single thing, let's start describing it as a holistic experience. ↗

— Kate Bornstein

#gender-identity #transgender #experience

What's great is that because math is such a universal language, really, our fans come in all shapes and sizes, all ages and genders and races and backgrounds and cultures. ↗

— David Krumholtz

#backgrounds #because #come #cultures #fans

I can ride and wield blade, and I do not fear either pain or death.' 'What do you fear, lady?' he (Aragorn) asked. 'A cage,' she said. 'To stay behind bars, until use and old age accept them, and all chance of doing great deeds is gone beyond recall or desire. ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#age

If art is not to be life-enhancing, what is it to be? Half the world is feminine--why is there resentment at a female-oriented art? Nobody asks The Tale of Genji to be masculine! Women certainly learn a lot from books oriented toward a masculine world. Why is not the reverse also true? Or are men really so afraid of women's creativity (because they are not themselves at the center of creation, cannot bear children) that a woman writer of genius evokes murderous rage, must be brushed aside with a sneer as 'irrelevant'? ↗

— May Sarton

#femininity #gender #masculine-feminine #women #writers

I was not ladylike, nor was I manly. I was something else altogether. There were so many different ways to be beautiful. ↗

— Michael Cunningham

#beauty

...sitting and waiting is one of the most miserable occupations known to man - not that it usually is known to men; women do it much more often. ↗

— Diana Gabaldon

#men-and-women #waiting #men

I appreciate the sentiment that I am a popular woman in computer gaming circles; but I prefer being thought of as a computer game designer rather than a woman computer game designer. I don't put myself into gender mode when designing a game. ↗

— Roberta Williams

#appreciate #being #circles #computer #designer

Love is not getting high on fantasies of romance, the perfect lover, absolute happiness and sexual ecstasy. Love is based on a two way communication and respect, and that only exists between equals. ↗

— Anselma Dell'Olio

#feminism #gender-equality #love #communication

Chastity ... has, even now, a religious importance in a woman's life, and has so wrapped itself round with nerves and instincts that to cut it free and bring it to the light of day demands courage of the rarest. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#dignity #double-standards #empowerment #encroachment #feminism