#gender

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

There are many different rivers that lead into despair: there's poverty; there's political repression; there's gender apartheid - there's a sense of culture loss; there's religious fanaticism. ↗

— Lawrence Wright

#culture #despair #different #fanaticism #gender

Women can be emancipated only when she can take part on a large social scale in production and is engaged in domestic workk only to an insignificant degree. ↗

— Friedrich Engels

#inspirational #women-s-rights #equality

Revolution is engendered by an indignation with tyranny, yet is itself pregnant with tyranny. ↗

— William Godwin

#indignation #itself #pregnant #revolution #tyranny

I am still bowled over by this great young adult novel by David Levithan called 'Every Day,' which is about a character with no gender or body who wakes up every day in the body of a different person. It's a really impressive execution of a really great premise. ↗

— John Green

#adult #am #body #bowled #called

We are a model country where gender equality is concerned. ↗

— Tarja Halonen

#concerned #country #gender #model #where

I don't see gender as the most significant fact of human existence. ↗

— Jim Harrison

#fact #gender #human #human existence #i

[T]he more clamour we make about 'the women's point of view', the more we rub it into people that the women's point of view is different, and frankly I do not think it is -- at least in my job. The line I always want to take is, that there is the 'point of view' of the reasonably enlightened human brain, and that this is the aspect of the matter which I am best fitted to uphold. ↗

— Dorothy L. Sayers

#clichés #double-standards #empowerment #equality #feminism

But the issue of sexual harassment is not the end of it. There are other issues - political issues, gender issues - that people need to be educated about. ↗

— Anita Hill

#educated #end #gender #harassment #issue

If you think about the way the hearings were structured, the hearings were really about Thomas' race and my gender. ↗

— Anita Hill

#gender #hearings #race #really #structured