Quotes About Gender expression

Now I'm not dumb, but I can't understand how she walks like a woman but talks like a man..." Th Kinks

Now I'm not dumb, but I can't understand how she walks like a woman and talks like a man...

I believe in assigned sex but not necessarily gender. Gender is a learned construct that is detrimental to both sexes.

Look like chick books." "And you're a chick, so what's the problem?" She laughs. "Well, you've got beans and franks, or so I assume." "Hey," he says, suddenly all serious. "Reading books by female authors does not limit my macho vibe. Plus, bitches write the best characters, man. It's like they get people, you know?

It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple: one must be a woman manly, or a man womanly.

He- for there could be no doubt of his sex, though the fashion of the time did something to disguise it- was in the act of slicing at the head of a Moor which swung from the rafters.

It is a profound truth that in 'every human being a vacillation from one sex to the other takes place', as Woolf puts it, but for the writer that change is also a profound source of energy.

Las aptitudes artísticas no son caracteres sexuales secundarios, como han dicho ciertos charlatanes y chamanes, sino todo lo contrario: la sexualidad está al servicio del arte.

Had I not been a heterosexual male, I would have been a Lesbian.

If clothes make the man, what were they making? A way of insisting they were men, more men than men?

Natalia, Kahlia and Helen are always saying "Love you!" to each other. They say it at school, at parties, at each other's houses. They hug all the frickin time, too. Guys, on the other hand, bump fists and every so often hug their moms.

In South Africa, "some women identify as gay rather than lesbian" and a "masculine man" playing the dominant role in a relationship with another man, for instance, is called "a straight man" and is not perceived as "gay" because he act as penetrator during sexual intercourse. This holds true to some extent in North Africa and in the Middle East.

Dressing femme to the nines and then hanging on the arm of another woman all night—a fuck-you to straight men—can feel electrifying. And butch confidence, the grit to invert every traditional way a woman is supposed to look is wholly contagious.

Then I went to a certain nightclub. There were men there—and also women. At least, they looked like women.

The men sometimes do a better job of concealing their hate than the women. With the feminists, you can see it in their faces.

Who shall measure the hat and violence of the poet's heart when caught and tangled in a woman's body?

I hope one day people don't look at women like they're out of their minds when they want to pick up an instrument and play. And I think we're getting a lot closer to that.

I can't express how much admiration I have for women in general, who walk around in high heels, but, drag queens, oh my god.

... women are more quiet. They don't feel called to mount a barrel and harangue by the hour every time they imagine they have produced an idea.

Women can explore so much in dressing. But if I was a guy I would wear vintage suits constantly. With crazy ties!

The masculine/feminine look fascinates me. It is not only an issue of empowering women, but I think the shapes look great.

Punk allowed women to stop looking feminine. Oh, the relief.

I'm kind of still down with Virg Woolf on this one: "women must kill the aesthetic ideal through which they themselves have been 'killed' into art."

People like [Memoirs of a Woman Doctor], whether young people, young women, even critics - male critics - they were not shocked by it. Of course, some parts were cut.