Kerry Bishe Quotes

I think it is too hard for men to talk about gender. We have to let men talk about this... because we need men to talk about this if it is ever going to change.

What I do know is that traditional gender roles are very real and flipping the norm is difficult for even the strongest, funniest, smartest men.

When it comes to dividing Americans on the basis of their gender, I know a little something about the subject.

Feminism isn't about hating men. It's about challenging the absurd gender distinctions that boys and girls learn from childhood and carry into their adult lives.

I've always been very vocal, but there have been moments where I've found it difficult to negotiate things that are about gender.

I'm of the opinion that gender is a social construct.

I never had an issue with gender.

In the sex war, thoughtlessness is the weapon of the male, vindictiveness of the female.

The notion that somehow women are wildly different infuriates me.

Washington and Congress are steeped in history and tradition, and that's been very male-oriented.

I would gladly admit women are superior to men if only they would stop trying to be the same as us.

A man doesn't know what it's like to be a woman; it's that simple.

I felt alien my whole life, but I didn't feel alien because of my gender. Other people made me aware of my gender.

Every year I teach dozens of students at the University of Birmingham. Most of the students on the gender and sexuality courses are women. I guess this is because the boys don't think that gender applies to them: that it's a subject for girls.

In my youth there were words you couldn't say in front of a girl; now you can't say 'girl.'

I'm an only child, so I never had sisters to tell me what I should like based on my gender. I liked what the boys were doing and thought: 'Why let them have all the fun?'

I think the fallacy is to think that Women's Liberation meant that men and women would become interchangeable. That has not happened, and most men and women would not want it to happen.

You think that being a girl is degrading, but secretly, you'd love to know what it's like, wouldn't you?

In a war, no matter the outcome of a certain skirmish or battle, the winner is the party whose attitudes, behaviors and preoccupations come to dominate the postwar landscape. By this measure, the outcome of the gender wars, if wars they were, is clear: women won.

Being in drag for three months - I now have an idea of what women go through. At least maybe a little.

School is very conformist, and one of the very first conforming that goes on in preschool and kindergarten is gender.

We all live in a culture that is continually isolating feminine and masculine aspects, even when they're not related to people.

When you write, you are not either sex. But when you're read you are definitely gendered.

I refuse to consign the whole male sex to the nursery. I insist on believing that some men are my equals.

Gender is probably the most restricting force in American life.