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Quotes About Gender expression

When I made love and climaxed, I felt that my body was basically no different from that of a man.
~ Annie Ernaux
Es posible que un relato como este provoque irritación o repulsión, o que sea tachado de mal gusto. El hecho de haber vivido algo, sea lo que sea, otorga el derecho imprescriptible de escribir sobre ello. No existe una verdad inferior. Y si no cuento esta experiencia hasta el final, contribuiré a oscurecer la realidad de las mujeres y me pondré del lado de la dominación masculina del mundo.)
~ Annie Ernaux
Toddlerhood, I just knew I was the farthest thing from a man. I've known that my whole life.
~ Indya Moore
I find it very difficult to see the boundary between womenswear and menswear. It's bizarre the ways in which society reacts; they find it difficult to comprehend seeing parts of the body on a man. I think it's fascinating.
~ Jonathan Anderson
I always knew I wanted to be a woman in men's clothing because I just feel good like that. I feel like I'm taking a different space: I move differently; I'm more at ease.
~ Christine and the Queens
I like a sort of androgynous look, but I also love feminine shapes.
~ Dakota Johnson
It just so happens that some of the things I like are feminine.
~ Andreja Pejic
I think I was aware when I started doing stand-up, especially on my own, that, yeah, I'm getting up on stage, and I'm a woman, and I dress in a sort of typically feminine fashion.
~ Jenny Slate
Drag is a little scary, especially for a gay man who's not comfortable with his feminine side.
~ John Cameron Mitchell
If you're female, and you want to express your femininity, you're actually demonized in the 'Free To Be... You And Me' generation.
~ Jill Soloway
It was tough trying to figure out how to put on all the women's clothes.
~ Barry Watson
The parents say, 'Can you talk to my daughter and say that it's OK? That she can have muscles?' They'll say, 'I show her pictures of you so they can know she's good at what she does but still looks like a girl. She wears dresses.' It releases people to be whoever they want to be in the sport.
~ Michelle Carter
I'll date whoever is attractive, as long as it's a man. But I'll be like Katy Perry from time to time and kiss a girl.
~ Jeffree Star
Ever since I was a kid I just thought that women had the better outfits, women had the better hair, women got to wear makeup. I just got jealous of what women got to do onstage. You dress up a man and ultimately it's just a different variation on the same kind of suit. There's a whole wide world of what women wear onstage.
~ Jinkx Monsoon
Men in makeup, obviously, is a very new concept. It has not been widely accepted in the past.
~ James Charles
Men in makeup is becoming more widely accepted. But it's going to take so much more open-mindedness to have it be a common thing.
~ James Charles
I like the fact that it's like The Ramones. You just have to change your name, and you're a Ramone. You just have to put the wig on, and you're Hedwig. Women have played it. Gay men, straight men, you know.
~ John Cameron Mitchell
La novelas, generalmente, eran heterosexuales, la poesía, en cambio, era absolutamente homosexual, los cuentos, deduzco, eran bisexuales, aunque esto no lo dijo.
~ Roberto Bolano
with Kurt Striker. He was just too damn male for his own good. Or her own. He'd
~ Lisa Jackson
Through college she had been a feminist—basically: she shaved her legs, but just not often enough, she liked to say.
~ Lorrie Moore
His eyes be sad and thoughtful. His face begin to look like a woman face.
~ Alice Walker
I didn't know there were women who wore men's clothes and had men's haircuts. But like a traveler in a foreign country who runs into someone from home - someone they've never spoken to but know by sight - I recognized her with a surge of joy.
~ Alison Bechdel
Really, drag is like, 'Oh, I'm putting on women's clothing,' but it's just clothing. The people who assign it as being for women is the culture and society.
~ Alaska
I've only dressed in drag three or four times.
~ Adam Lambert