Gender is a social construct used to enforce roles, not a shorthand for physical characteristics.
The idea of 'gender' has come to seem as redundant as it is dangerous.
Gender is the repeated stylization of the body, a set of repeated acts within a highly rigid regulatory frame.
Gender is not just about women; it's about men as well. We need to understand masculinity as well as femininity.
The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it.
The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says, 'It's a girl.'
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 not a binary; it's a spectrum.
One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.
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.
We've begun to raise daughters more like sons... but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.
I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.
Gender is not something that one is, it is something one does, an act, a doing, a performance.
Gender is a shell game. What is a man? Whatever a woman isn't. What is a woman? Whatever a man is not.