I see my body as an instrument, rather than an ornament. (Quote by - Alanis Morissette, quoted in Reader's Digest, March 2000)

Gender consciousness has become involved in almost every intellectual field: history, literature, science, anthropology. There's been an extraordinary advance. (Quote by - Clifford Geertz)

There isn't a theologian in the world who can argue with me on this. God has no gender. If that's the case, then everything needs to be rewritten now, right now. (Quote by - Susan Powter)

I would have girls regard themselves not as adjectives but as nouns. (Quote by - Elizabeth Cady Stanton)

A woman is like a tea bag. It's only when she's in hot water that you realize how strong she is. (Quote by - Attributed to both Eleanor Roosevelt and Carl Sandburg)

Whether born from experience or inherent physiological or cultural differences our gender and national origins may and will make a difference in our judging. (Quote by - Sonia Sotomayor)

But let me tell you, this gender thing is history. You're looking at a guy who sat down with Margaret Thatcher across the table and talked about serious issues. (Quote by - George H. W. Bush)

I'm the result of upbringing, class, race, gender, social prejudices, and economics. So I'm a victim again. A result. (Quote by - James Hillman)

To me gender is not physical at all, but is altogether insubstantial. It is soul, perhaps, it is talent, it is taste, it is environment, it is how one feels, it is light and shade, it is inner music. (Quote by - Jan Morris)

The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be the arrangement of your chromosomes. (Quote by - Bella Abzug)

We've begun to raise daughters more like sons... but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters. (Quote by - Gloria Steinem)

Our true nature is free of any and all notions of gender, of any notions of difference whatsoever. (Quote by - Andrew Cohen)

How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes! (Quote by - Maya Angelou)

If folks can learn to be racist, then they can learn to be anti racist. If being sexist ain't genetic, then, dad gum, people can learn about gender equality. (Quote by - Johnnetta Betsch Cole)

Most women are one man away from welfare. (Quote by - Gloria Steinem)

We haven't come a long way, we've come a short way. If we hadn't come a short way, no one would be calling us baby. (Quote by - Elizabeth Janeway)

There is a special place in hell for women who do not help other women. (Quote by - Madeleine K. Albright)

When the Nobel award came my way, it also gave me an opportunity to do something immediate and practical about my old obsessions, including literacy, basic health care and gender equity, aimed specifically at India and Bangladesh. (Quote by - Amartya Sen)

My idea here is that, inasmuch as certain cognitive tasks and principles are tied to nature's laws, these tasks and principles are indifferent to language, culture, gender, or the particular mode of information that is provided. (Quote by - Edward Tufte)

It's wonderful to watch a pretty woman with character grow beautiful. (Quote by - Mignon McLaughlin)

It matters more what's in a woman's face than what's on it. (Quote by - Claudette Colbert)

In the theory of gender I began from zero. There is no masculine power or privilege I did not covet. But slowly, step by step, decade by decade, I was forced to acknowledge that even a woman of abnormal will cannot escape her hormonal identity. (Quote by - Camille Paglia)