Quotes About Gender expression

Mikhail seated himself across the small table from her, his eyes drifting lazily, possessively, over her alluring curves. Why do you dress in men's clothes? he asked. She laughed, soft and melodious, and her eyes lit with mischief. Because I knew it would annoy you. He threw his head back and laughed. -Mikhail & Raven

I've often wondered why there should be some people who want everything about me to be false or masculine, or what my critics would say if I suddenly appeared with close-cropped hair, no makeup and in men's clothing. I strongly suspect that, too, would leave them unsatisfied.

find my woman's voice, even in this man's world.

I cry too much to be butch." The artist deadpanned, raising an eyebrow filled with intimidation at the young woman.

Perhaps, if we young mothers had started on day one, and had given our children unisex names, and our sons more options and our daughters more anger, we would find at fifth-birthday parties the boys being fastidious and the girls slinging guns. But is that what we really want?

We think . . . that girls ought to sing. They ought to sing, and dance while they're singing. But we are not girls, and so can be almost certain that we know nothing about the matter.

Red Riding Hood screamed, not out of alarm at the wolf's apparent tendency toward cross-dressing, but because of his willful invasion of her personal space.

I wasn't what you would envision for the son of an Army man. I liked doll baby clothes and twirled a baton. But my aunts and uncles tell me how much he loved me.

I don't know why I've always been uncomfortable being too feminine. If a dress has too many flowers on it, if I'm giggling too much, I'm like ugh, put some combat boots on. I love masculine women. I think it's because I'm like a fake lesbian, I don't know.

When I'm a lady, I'm a lady. Can you imagine walking into a men's room and seeing a beautiful goddess standing at the urinal? It would be as much uncomfortable for them as it is for us.

Women need to become literary "criminals," break the literary laws and reinvent their own, because the established laws prevent women from presenting the reality of their lives.

I'm just a person trapped inside a woman's body.

We undress men and women, we don't dress them any more.

Women should look like women. A piece of cardboard has no sexuality.

Women can be vivacious. We are allowed more varieties of facial expression and gestures. Men must be rocklike.

Do you not know I am a woman? when I think, I must speak.

Year after year, we see a new crop of musicians who do their best to look tough in lipstick and makeup. Maybe it's a cry for help, an admission of their strong feminine side, or the realization that they don't look so good any other way. Whatever the reason, makeup is as rock n' roll as a Marshall stack.

Femininity and masculinity are social constructs. Female and male are biological. We don't have to learn to be men or women but we do have to learn to be ladies and gentlemen.

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.

A blonde girl wearing a man's shirt but in all other visible respects unmanly to the point of outright effeminacy.

I started to get bored with that stuff about only drawing men and I've taken it out of the slideshow.

I am a thespian trapped in a man's body.

I'm so not macho. It's crazy. My man cave is so not a man cave.

I have no objection to a man being a man, however masculine that may be.