"The woman who is known only through a man is known wrong."
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"There is no original or primary gender a drag imitates, but gender is a kind of imitation for which there is no original."
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"The most important thing we're doing differently is that we talk openly about gender at Facebook."
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"Real feminism is spinsterhood."
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"Every taxi driver I have ever spoken to has a theory of gender."
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"Patriarchy has no gender."
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"I've never felt grounded because of my ancestry or my gender. I think until women get away from that they're not going to be great writers."
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"You have to be invited to the party. You have to be invited to work, which is weird. That can be frustrating. But gender inequality is pretty similar through almost every industry, unfortunately."
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"We have been very conditioned by the cultures that we come from and are usually very identified with the particular gender that we happen to be a member of."
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"It is illegal to discriminate on the basis of pregnancy or gender. It is not illegal to talk about it."
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"Heterosexuality - whichever gender you are - says that the other gender is very important to you."
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"I'm not sure how to put this, but I didn't want things like gender transition to be, like, the money shot in talking about bodily change. The truth is that we are all changing all the time to each other. Anybody who's been in a relationship for more than a year, more than five years, knows this."
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"I think it's about having a competent president, and I don't really think gender has to do with how Hillary Clinton will lead."
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"The act of sport remains a human act, unrelated to gender."
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"The modern campus is deeply obsessed by race and gender, and not much else."
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"I want to say that the way in which we understand gender actually changes the way we live gender."
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"If one is of the masculine gender, a poodle is the insignia of one's deviation."
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"When I started to internalize fat positivity and believe it, my response was the same one I had when I started to understand the scope of gender inequality: deep indignation."
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