#genders

A woman is human. She is not better, wiser, stronger, more intelligent, more creative, or more responsible than a man. Likewise, she is never less. Equality is a given. A woman is human. ↗

— Vera Nazarian

#female #feminism #feminist #gender #gender-equality

We come to a corner where there are a few people protesting the festivities. I don't understand this at all. It's like protesting the fact that some people are red-haired. In my experience, desire is desire, love is love. I have never fallen in love with a gender. I have fallen for individuals. I know this is hard for people to do, but I don't understand why it's so hard, when it's so obvious. ↗

— David Levithan

#free-of-gender-constraints #love-is-love #omnisexuality #pansexuality #queerness

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

— Sandra Cisneros

#come #engenders #i #i think #liberation

Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness. ↗

— Cyril Connolly

#darkness #engenders #folly #ignorance #infatuation

Whatever the opposite of regret is best describes how I've always felt about that decision - it opened me up to a million creative opportunities I needed to experience away from the bull and distorting mirrors that fame engenders. ↗

— David Knopfler

#always #away #best #bull #creative

If there were genders to genres, fiction would be unquestionably feminine. ↗

— William Gass

#fiction #genders #genres #unquestionably #were

We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races, even alone in genders. ↗

— Maya Angelou

#alone #even #genders #groups #ignorance

I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient. ↗

— Roland Barthes

#blame #call #discourse #engenders #guilt

Acting engenders and harbours qualities that are best left way behind in adolesence. ↗

— Carrie Fisher

#behind #best #engenders #left #qualities

Almost any biographer, if he respects facts, can give us much more than another fact to add to our collection. He can give us the creative fact; the fertile fact; the fact that suggests and engenders. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#almost #another #any #biographer #collection