Gender And Sexuality Quotes:

I don't think there's anything wrong with being paternalistic as a company.

- Leonard Lauder

topic: Bisexual, Thinking, Gender And Sexuality, Musicianship, Cider

No woman gets an orgasm from shining the kitchen floor.

- Betty Friedan

source: "Feminist icon Betty Friedan dies aged 85" by Jamie Doward, www.theguardian.com. February 4, 2006.

topic: Shining, Feminist, Kitchen, Inspirational Feminist, International Women's Day

I don't think there's anything wrong being a dreamer.

- Erin Morgenstern

topic: Bisexual, Thinking, Dreamer, Musicianship, Cider

Last night I was seriously considering whether I was a bisexual or not but I don't think so though I'm not sure if I'd like to be and argh I don't think there's anything wrong with that, if you like a person, you like the person, not their genitals.

- Jess C Scott

topic: Relationship, Bisexual, Night, Gender And Sexuality

Janet Mock's honest and sometimes searing journey is a rare and important look into la vida liminal, one that she manages to negotiate remarkably well, with grace, humor, and fierce grit. Mock doesn't only redefine what realness means to her, but challenges us to rethink our own perceptions of gender and sexuality, feminism and sisterhood, making this book a transcendent piece of American literature.

- Raquel Cepeda

topic: Book, Mean, Journey, Realness, Gender And Sexuality

Dividing everybody into genders and sexuality and races and religions, and I think its important to have films out there, to have discussions out there which really try to get to grips with where that kind of thing can lead.

- Chiwetel Ejiofor

topic: Thinking, Race, Important, Race And Religion, Gender And Sexuality

There is a tendency under capitalism system to reduce everything to a kind of commodity fetish, and this order tends to promote extremely conventional and uniform expressions of gender and sexuality in order to promote certain products and lifestyle choices that are commercialized. This necessarily entails a capitulation to heteronormativity, or in the case of the new gay movement, a "homonormativity" that doesn't stray far from the heterosexual paradigm. Anyone who questions these normative values and conventions is subject to disapproval, hostility, or even violence.

- Bruce LaBruce

topic: Gay, Expression, Order, Lifestyle Choices, Gender And Sexuality

I think we won't be able to understand the operations of trans-phobia, homophobia, if we don't understand how certain kinds of links are forged between gender and sexuality in the minds of those who want masculinity to be absolutely separate from femininity and heterosexuality to be absolutely separate from homosexuality.

- Judith Butler

source: "The Difference Between Sexuality and Gender". bigthink.com.

topic: Thinking, Mind, Heterosexuality, Gender And Sexuality, Homophobia

Every year I teach dozens of students at the University of Birmingham. Most of the students on the gender and sexuality courses are women. I guess this is because the boys don't think that gender applies to them: that it's a subject for girls.

- Louise Brown

topic: Girl, Thinking, Boys, Birmingham, Gender And Sexuality

Everybody brings their thing to their criticism. I bring this wealth of opinions and feeling and knowledge about race and gender and sexuality. I feel like I have it, I may as well express it, and if it's applicable to what I'm writing about and I'm not forcing it, I should try to use it, because it's interesting. It speaks to more than some people.

- Wesley Morris

source: "Wesley Morris, boston globe film critic: 'they hate people who have opinions that run contrary to their fanaticism'". Interview with Naoki O'Bryan, jameson-zimmer.squarespace.com. April 15, 2013.

topic: Writing, Race, People, Race And Gender, Gender And Sexuality