Gender Quotes

"I thought having to explain the risibility of gender codes would be mostly behind us by now."

"The problem with gender is that it prescribes how we should be rather than recognizing how we are."

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

"One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman."

Simone de Beauvoir

"A gender-equal society would be one where the word 'gender' does not exist: where everyone can be themselves."

Gloria Steinem

"Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them."

Margaret Atwood

“One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.”

Simone de Beauvoir

“The problem with gender is that it prescribes how we should be rather than recognizing how we are.”

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie