Kay Bailey Hutchison Quotes

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

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

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.

The business of fiction is the study of the human condition, and gender is something that many humans are obsessed with, thus making it rather difficult to ignore when studying the human condition!

For a long time, I really blithely walked around in the world imagining that gender didn't matter any more and behaving like I was on equal footing with other people. And I think, for a long time, it was easy to live in the world that way.

Because gender can be uncomfortable, there are easy ways to close this conversation. Some people will bring up evolutionary biology and apes, how female apes bow to male apes - that sort of thing. But the point is this: we are not apes. Apes also live in trees and eat earthworms. We do not.

Partly because women in the U.S. are better represented in the hierarchies, the culture wars over gender there have been particularly fierce.

I'm totally fine with myself. It's the other people I run into out there who are so hung up on gender. The way it trips them up is their problem, not mine.

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

I never had an issue with gender.

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

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?'

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

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.

I am not sure gender ever won't be an issue in comedy, because I think that women do have different priorities in some respects.

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.

Gender is probably the most restricting force in American life.

No one knows 'men' as such, any more than anyone knows 'women,' and if they do generalise they're probably trying to hide their own ignorance. You might know one 'man,' yes, or even lots of individual 'men'.

I think we're struggling with trying to redefine various positions at this point in history. To allow freedom for women, freedom for men, freedom from those sharply defined gender roles.

There is more difference within the sexes than between them.

Masculine and feminine roles are not biologically fixed but socially constructed.

Especially with girls, people always want to put them in little brackets.

Girls can wear jeans, cut their hair short, wear shirts and boots, 'cause it's okay to be a boy, but for a boy to look like a girl is degrading.