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Quotes About Gender expression

I want parents out there to know that it's totally natural for kids to make believe and play games. It does not mean your child is going to be transgendered. And even if it were true, why is it such a horrible thing?
~ Alexis Arquette
See, being a woman, I have to wear attractive dresses - not boring shirts, ties and trousers!
~ Shibani Dandekar
Wearing a dress shows I can be as feminine as I want. I'm a heterosexual...big deal, but if I was a homosexual, it wouldn't matter, either.
~ Kurt Cobain
Boys will be boys and girls will be girls, and if you want it any different you can join a Shubert chorus
~ J. P. McEvoy
I tend to see - socially, I don't tend to be myself in a male role. I don't know any other way to put it.
~ Greg Rucka
Drag has always been very political and challenging of societal norms and other aspects of life.
~ Aquaria
When you write as a woman, there's this feeling there's going to be a softness.
~ Karin Slaughter
He was the most beautiful boy I had ever seen in my life. But he really looked like a girl. She was the most beautiful boy I'd ever seen in my life.
~ Ali Smith, Girl Meets Boy
If I were born a woman, my clothes would be for any man with rough hands to tear down and my body to be made love to by any heart lost enough to love
~ Prabhukrishna M
If you don't pray," he said, lowering his voice, "why do you wear it?" They were sitting at a table for two by a window, overlooking snarled traffic on the street below. Their phones rested screens-down between them, like the weapons of desperadoes at a parley. She smiled. Took a sip. And spoke, the lower half of her face obscured by her cup. "So men don't fuck with me," she said.
~ Mohsin Hamid
The pictures in this book are not of people suffering gender dysphoria but rather expressing gender euphoria. This book is about new possibilities and transcendence. The people in these pictures are truly revolutionary; they are the real winners of the battle of the sexes because they have stepped out of the ring.
~ Nan Goldin
When I was fifteen, the perfect world seemed a place of total androgyny, where you wouldn't know a person's gender until you were in bed with him or her. I've since realized that gender is so much deeper than style.
~ Nan Goldin
Porn puts people to sleep, conceptually and politically as well as erotically.
~ Naomi Wolf
I met my best friend in a sandbox when I was three, and he would grow up to be gay and loved to dress in my clothing any chance he got.
~ Alanna Ubach
I'm an exceptional artist. Trapped in the body of man with no musical
~ Kathleen Tessaro
One became a woman in an act of making up that was, incongruously, inherent to feminine nature.
~ Kathy Peiss
You can hardly say of your soul what sex it is. But if you pay close attention, you will see that the most masculine man has a feminine soul, and the most feminine woman a masculine soul.
~ C.G. Jung
When I joined Custer I donned the uniform of a soldier. It was a bit awkward at first but I soon got to be perfectly at home in men's clothes.
~ Calamity Jane
Legion hissed like a startled cat, the noise scraping at Reyes's skin. "Me no boy. You think me a boy?" Everyone stopped, stared. Even Aeron. Reyes was the first to find his voice. "You're a…girl?" A nod. "Me pretty." "Yes, you are." Reyes exchanged a glance with Lucien. "Beautiful.
~ Gena Showalter
Dallas popped his jaw. "I do not cackle. I bitch like a he-man.
~ Gena Showalter
When I make music, I often sound better singing as a woman, go figure, so I like to tweak the format and pitch and suchlike of my recorded voice. Sounds better.
~ Timothy Morton
Woolf wanted to say dangerous things in Orlando but she did not want to say them in the missionary position.
~ Jeanette Winterson
I'm very comfortable with being a female now but when I was a little kid I only wanted to be a boy. I didn't want to be a girl. I didn't feel like a man inside... being a boy was just cooler.
~ Patti Smith
Like I have to pretend like I'm a male rapper, that I got stacks and we're in the club, and what do I want to say. And then, when writing Rare I could just be PJ.
~ PJ Harvey