#gender

Bathroom, maybe? Which is where I need to go." "Ooh, me, too," Eve said. The boys rolled their eyes, like they'd planned it. "What? It's what girls do. Get over it. ↗

— Rachel Caine

#gender-stereotypes #morganville-vampires #ghost

What all of this suggests is that we need a more complex understanding of identities. If we identify on the basis of race, class, sexuality, or gender alone we cannot make sense of the ways these identifications combine and change over time. The used-to-be-working class now professional woman, the woman of mixed racial parentage who appears white, the divorced mother who is now a lesbian, the former lesbian who is now straight, or the former lesbian who is now a man. Identities are always in motion; they are mobile (Ferguson, 1993). This is particularly the case for those who have been placed in identity categories that do not quite seem to fit; it is also true of many more of us, in varied ways. Just ask our current President, whose own origin story, of which he has spoken and written eloquently, is exceedingly complex. We need, I believe, a conception of identities that embraces this complexity, that takes into account temporality and also specificity. ↗

— Arlene Stein

#sexuality #sociology #change

Gender equality is more than a goal in itself. It is a precondition for meeting the challenge of reducing poverty, promoting sustainable development and building good governance. ↗

— Kofi Annan

#challenge #development #equality #gender #goal

What a country needs to do is be fair to all its citizens - whether people are of a different ethnicity or gender. ↗

— Chinua Achebe

#country #different #ethnicity #fair #gender

You men,' she says. 'You durn men. ↗

— William Faulkner

#men

Valerie stood with the other women, watching the men go. She couldn't help bristling at this division of the sexes. Her fingers itched to hold a weapon, too, to do something, to kill something with her anger. ↗

— Sarah Blakley-Cartwright

#anger

As you get older it's more confusing. Suddenly, there's more pressure to fit in to your assigned gender. ↗

— Chastity Bono

#confusing #fit #gender #get #more

Thirty years ago, in 1976, the notion of organized activity to combat discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity was an extremely controversial one. ↗

— Robert Brady

#ago #based #combat #controversial #discrimination

There is no original or primary gender a drag imitates, but gender is a kind of imitation for which there is no original. ↗

— Judith Butler

#gender #imitates #imitation #kind #original

Women have sat indoors all these millions of years, so that by this time the very walls are permeated by their creative force, which has, indeed, so overcharged the capacity of bricks and mortar that it must needs harness itself to pens and brushes and business and politics. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#artists #arts #careers #creativity #empowerment