Quotes about Gender
That… man… says women can't have as much rights as man, cause Christ wasn't a woman. Where did your Christ come from?… From God and a woman. Man had nothing to do with him.
- Sojourner Truth
Then that little man in black there, he says women can't have as much rights as men, 'cause Christ wasn't a woman! Where did your Christ come from? Where did Christ come from? From God and a woman! Man had nothing to do with Him.
- Sojourner Truth
If it is not a fit place for women, it is unfit for men to be there.
- Sojourner Truth
Whether born from experience or inherent physiological or cultural differences our gender and national origins may and will make a difference in our judging.
- Sonia Sotomayor
My hope is that I will take the good from my experiences and extrapolate them further into areas with which I am unfamiliar. I simply do not know exactly what that difference will be in my judging. But I accept there will be some based on my gender and my Latina heritage.
- Sonia Sotomayor
Men think it lacking in humility and suppose that it is trying to teach those from whom it should learn, especially if the person in question is a woman.
- Teresa of Avila
Most of my fundamentalist brothers and sisters - and I am an evangelical, so I can say most of my fundamentalist brothers and sisters - are quite willing to pack women off and send them as missionaries to dangerous places where they might get killed.
- Tony Campolo
I grew up in a house full of women - I have four sisters. I'm more feminine than some gay men.
- James Arthur
And dare love that, and say so too, And forget the He and She.
- John Donne
Some day we hope to liberate every man on earth from the tendency as old as human history to identify our strength and manhood with the ability to control the lives, limit the chances, and doom the dreams of women and girls.
- Bill Clinton
We have moral responsibilities to other people in our community because they are people, regardless of their race, ethnicity, gender, or lot in life. According to the Christian and Jewish view of humanity, all people have inherent dignity because they are made in the image of God. And thus we should show respect to and concern for those of both genders and all races and nationalities.
- Francis J. Beckwith
Women have made tons of progress. But we still have a small percentage of the top jobs in any industry, in any nation in the world. I think that's partly because from a very young age, we encourage our boys to lead and we call our girls bossy.
- Sheryl Sandberg