Gender-Based Barriers Quotes

Some women being empowered does not prove the patriarchy is dead. It proves that some of us are lucky.

So why is the sex barrier not taken as seriously as the racial one?

I didn't want my gender to determine whether or not I could cover breaking news.

Most people think that girls can't play because they're girls.

I have been a diplomat for 12 years but have never been posted abroad because I am a woman.

The battle with Men Who Explain Things has trampled down many women - of my generation, of the up-and-coming generation we need so badly, here and in Pakistan and Bolivia and Java, not to speak of the countless women who came before me and were not allowed into the laboratory, or the library, or the conversation, or the revolution, or even the category called human.

I can't point to any major episodes of sexual discrimination in my early life. But I was so aware of the crime, the shame that there was no use of my mother's ability and energy.

There are a lot of misconceptions that we can't play fast bowling or we can't bowl fast. We should have mixed matches. I have also played a lot of matches against boys because that's how we train.