The idea of 'gender' has come to seem as redundant as it is dangerous.
The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it.
Gender is a construct, a series of acts, a doing, a performance, a belief.
The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.
Gender is a shifting, mutable thing. It's in a constant state of flux.
Gender is a concept that has no correlative in the field of linguistics.
Gender is a kind of imitation for which there is no original.
Gender is the poetry each of us makes out of the language we are taught.
Gender is a story, not a fact. It is a process, not a destiny.