Quotes About Androgyny

If there's a distinction between men and women, I don't pay attention to it. Honestly, I don't see it. I think all of us are part feminine and part masculine.

What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.

Men escape from female sexual demands into androgyny or transvestism - women hide from male demands in modesty or sorcery.

Jeffrey Eugenides

I was always into very androgynous things. Guys, girls... I'm into androgyny in general.

I've always been interested in androgyny and a lot of my work explores gender identity.

There is a certain androgyny to my appeal.

So, I turned to angels, and pondered at length their androgyny.

The complete man, the man who does not dream, who can die well because he has lived well, and who can love his life because he envisages his death is, like the myth of the Androgyne, the symbol of what we lack.

Androgyny was a subject of some interest in Balzac's time. The Girodet painting of Endymion for which the castrato Zambinella served, in Balzac's fiction, as a far-off model offers a visual androgyny. And perhaps androgyny is a metaphor for the artist who creates life from his sole self and body.