434 Gender Quotes for You to Enjoy

More and more - especially the younger generation - are functioning outside the binary concept of gender. That's just next-generation stuff. Anohni

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I don't like narrowing my readers down - there's not a particular age or gender or nationality. I suppose I'm aiming at the child I was. Anthony Browne

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I'd like to think that the door is always open for just the best actor for the role, you know? Race or gender shouldn't have anything to do with it, unless the character or story is focused on that for some particular reason. Antoine Fuqua

Gender equality has a transformative effect that is essential to fully functioning communities, societies, and economies. Antonio Guterres

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Some people's gender identity conforms to the sex they were assigned at birth, and some people's identity doesn't. That realization was certainly very freeing for me - and could be very freeing for other people. Asia Kate Dillon

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What I learned through my research is that the word 'actor,' specifically in reference to those who performed in plays, came about in the late 1500s as a non-gendered word. It applied to all people, regardless of anatomical sex or gender identity. Asia Kate Dillon

I was assigned female at birth. My gender identify is non-binary. Asia Kate Dillon

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I absolutely think it is more acceptable for people who were assigned female at birth to dress in a typically gender non-conforming way. There was a time when people of all genders had long hair and anyone who wanted to wore jewelry - it was more a sign of status than a sign of femininity, per se. Asia Kate Dillon

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As someone who is non-binary gender identifying, I feel a particular responsibility to portray members of my community on stage and on screen, not only as fully fleshed-out characters who are integral to the plot, but as characters whose gender identity is just one of many parts that make up the whole person. Asia Kate Dillon

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We've been socialised and told that there is a way to describe people, and that way is by their gender or their sex. Asia Kate Dillon

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I spent so many years not understanding my own gender identity, not having the language to talk about it, and not feeling safe in many environments to talk about it. Asia Kate Dillon

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When you see white, cisgendered, heterosexual men having conversations about gender identity where they go, 'Oh, those are your pronouns? OK, great. Let's get back to work,' it allows other people to say, 'Maybe if they can do it, I can do it.' Asia Kate Dillon

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I mean, I absolutely call myself a feminist. And by that, I mean a woman who believes that your opportunities should not be constrained by your gender, that women should be entitled to the same opportunities as men. Ayelet Waldman

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I wanted to explore expectations we have of people - what a woman should be, what a man should be. And if they don't meet our own interpretation of who they should be because of their gender, their background, their ethnic group, we then come to conclusions about them that are not accurate. Ayobami Adebayo

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I call for greater measures to involve more women at higher levels in mine action. Governments should do more to address gender in their mine action programmes and through their implementation of the Anti-personnel Mine Ban Convention. Ban Ki-moon

Gender equality and women's empowerment have been a top priority for me from day one as Secretary-General. And I am committed to making sure that the U.N. leads by example. Ban Ki-moon

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Every woman who proves that it is not about gender but about excellence paves the way. Belinda Johnson

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Like my gender, sometimes things don't come out right the first time. Ben Hopkins

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All the English speakers, or almost all, have difficulties with the gender of words. Bernard Pivot

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Before my mother was a King, she climbed trees and wrestled with boys. And won. Even as a child, Coretta Scott demonstrated that her gender would not deter her success, nor did it detract from her strength. Bernice King

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I think the advice, regardless of gender, is always be open to conversations with people who do things differently than you do. If you're starting to work in tech, talk to the artists, talk to the lawyers, talk to the people who are interested in other things. Beth Simone Noveck

She raised me to not think of men and women as different. She raised me without gender. It's kind of the reason she named me Billie. It's not about being a strong woman - it's about being a strong person. Billie Lourd

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I grew up in Queens, which is the most diverse borough: the rich and the poor and homeless and people of every sexual orientation and gender and age group. Everyone is saying we live in this bubble, and there's some truth to that. But I do not think it is healthy to all of a sudden invalidate the way we live in New York. Billy Eichner

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Maybe our work appeals to some people more than others. But the opportunities that I present to my colleagues are completely uninfluenced by gender, race, sexual orientation, or religion. Bjarke Ingels

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