Quotes tagged ‘gender’

“Once the sexual patriarchy dies, then all genders will be equal.”

— Rightor Doyle, Tiff, Zoe Levin, imdb.com

“My privilege has allowed me to have resources to get through and to be where I am today, and of course I want to use that privilege and platform to help in the ways I can.”

— Elliot Page, time.com

“Increasingly it is personal choice – not death – that sees senior-age women going it alone, with 72 per cent reporting they were highly satisfied living on their own, according to data from the 2017 General Social Survey.”

— Zosia Bielski, theglobeandmail.com

“While many in this generation of heterosexual, divorced or widowed women want male companionship, they don’t necessarily relish the thought of moving in with a man.”

— Zosia Bielski, theglobeandmail.com

“In the Marc Jacobs world, you can be whoever you want and ignore societal norms of what's expected.”

— Marina Liao, marieclaire.com

“Before top surgery, their poses looked tight, uncomfortable, burdened. After — even in pain, even wearing bandages and drains — they loosened up.”

— Sasha Geffen, reallifemag.com

“The only place where femininity still lingered was in my eyebrows.”

— Claire Rudy Foster, allure.com

“When we separate students by their assumed genitalia for sex education, we are reinforcing the idea that genitals are equal to gender, and that there is no difference between sex and gender.”

— Syd Stephenson, Teen Vogue, teenvogue.com

“A knife that's all hers.”

— Crystal Ro, BuzzFeed, buzzfeed.com

“And women, we're like screaming in huge pink letters that we're powerful just to try to convince ourselves.”

— Lindy West, Alexandra Rushfield, Hye Yun Park, Aidy Bryant, Annie, Aidy Bryant, imdb.com

“Every woman is expected or pressured in heterosexuality to do the labor that sex workers do, but not every woman is a sex worker.”

— Rachel Rabbit White, thecut.com

“In classrooms and daily conversations, young people are changing the way they speak and write — replacing the masculine “o” or the feminine “a” with the gender-neutral “e” in certain words — in order to change what they see as a deeply gendered culture.”

— Samantha Schmidt, Washington Post, washingtonpost.com

“Do you think a man would apologize for taking the last community banana?”

— Shelly Gossman, Stef Duncan, Lyric Lewis, imdb.com

“A number of World Cup stars, including Megan Rapinoe, who plays for Reign FC, and fellow co-captains Alex Morgan and Carli Lloyd, are using their platforms to speak out in favor of equal pay for women.”

— Julie Compton, NBC News, nbcnews.com

“I'm really gender bending things here.”

— Deborah Czeresko, imdb.com

“I liked the way I dressed you, but I'm worried I fucked with your gender expression.”

— Sam Levinson, Jules Vaughn, Hunter Schafer, imdb.com

“No room for heteronormativity in here.”

— Sam Levinson, Jules Vaughn, Hunter Schafer, imdb.com

“Brett Ridgeman: Is that a guy or a girl singin' that song? Anthony Lurasetti: Can't tell. Brett Ridgeman: Not that there's much of a difference these days. Anthony Lurasetti: I think that line was obliterated the day men started saying we're pregnant when their wives were.”

— S. Craig Zahler, Anthony Lurasetti, Vince Vaughn, imdb.com

“Limiting visual representations of trans and non-binary people in media also limits the range of stories in which we imagine those subjects. With this collection, we hope to encourage richer representations of trans and non-binary personhood within society’s most important mode of public communicati…”

— Broadly, broadlygenderphotos.vice.com

“The consequences of living in a world built around male data can be deadly.”

— Caroline criado-perez, theguardian.com