Quotes About Gender expression

I felt myself a new species of child. Not a boy (most assuredly) but neither a (mere) girl.

clad not exactly as a boy but, rather confusingly, as the boy I would have been, had I been more of a girl

She wore a boiled shirt and a bow-tie, and her hair, though long and bound, was sleek with oil. She was about two- or three-and-thirty, and her waist was thick; but her upper lip, at least, was dark as a boy's. They would have called her terribly handsome, I guessed, in about 1880.

I think it would be a lot easier if I said, 'I feel like a dude ' but I was raised by a southern mom, so I know how to put on lipstick and walk in heels and rock that look. It's exactly that juxtaposition that confuses people.

In Hollywood today, it's cool for guys to wear nail polish and earrings in their lips and tongues. I don't get it.

I dress like a boy most of the time because I like what's comfortable, so sometimes when I have to wear dresses and makeup, it's kind of comedic.

I've always had a tomboy quality to me that I embrace and don't run away from. At the same time I'm a real girlie-girl.

I looked like a boy for a long time. Now I feel like a woman.

I wasn't cute or passive enough to be femme, and I wasn't mean or tough enough to be butch. I was given a wide berth. Non-conventional people can be dangerous, even in the gay community.

This is the story of a family who didn't fit in. A little girl who was a bit geeky and liked maths more than makeup. And a boy who liked makeup and didn't fit into any tribes.

We name and talk of a problematic 'transvestism,' the desire to dress in the clothes of the other sex. We do not usually name and speak of the strong desire to dress in the clothes of one's own sex. But why would most of us feel intense anxiety at dressing publicly in the clothes of the other sex? Does not our fervid desire to dress in the clothes of our own sex suggest a mystery to be explored?

Sometimes I think I still dress like a 13-year-old boy. It's not that I don't like feminine clothing: I just like a blend because it reflects who I am.

As far as girly-ness goes, I never wear makeup, if I've got zits on my face I just let them go. So I've always just related to guys on that level.

The minute you see a guy doing one of those Naomi Campbell catwalk-action kind of things, it falls apart. A lot of hips and the scissor walk? No! Men always need to be men.

Flying anuses, speeding vaginas, there is no castration.

I have worn a tuxedo, but I have never covered up for respectability politics or to shame other women.

It's obvious for example that when I am Conchita, I use the female toilet, and when I am Tom, the male toilet. I can assure you it's never a problem for women, they love it.

I grew up being a bit of a tomboy, a big-time tomboy.

With two older brothers, I was a tomboy in one sense, but on the other hand I really loved dolls. My brothers weren't very happy when I nicked their Action Men to play with my dolls and they were appalled when I made them kiss my Barbies.

I'm more androgynous, because men are supposed to be more spatial, women more literal - I'm a tomboy.

I've always been a tomboy. I've always liked to wear red, black, and white, and mostly pants.

I'm more of a tomboy - I fall into the jeans-and-a-T-shirt style, for sure - but I have a girlie side to me.

I was kind of a tomboy. I was the girl in middle school with the floods on - I wasn't fashionable at all.

I was such a tomboy when I was young. I hated girls' clothes.