Quotes About Gender

Drag is a little scary, especially for a gay man who's not comfortable with his feminine side.

We still raise girls to look to other people for assurance they are attractive and smart, while boys are raised to determine their own value. Many girls are still made to feel it's not feminine to be good at science or math.

What we're doing is we're chipping away at what it is to be a woman and to be feminine. And what it is to be a man and be masculine. We're chipping away at that. I wish we could go back to 'Mad Men' days. I love those days. Men were men. And I love them.

I wanted to do something a little bit more feminine after my second movie, 'Joshy,' which was so masculine.

They always said to me that I needed to be more feminine. I think it's so wrong. Being boisterous doesn't mean you are not feminine.

It's not like, 'Okay, today I want to look like a man, or today I want to look like a woman.' I want to look like me. It just so happens that some of the things I like are feminine.

I feel like dads should come more into their feminine side.

If you're told to 'Man up,' you're essentially being told that being feminine is lesser.

I had always been pegged for being feminine. People would always say, 'Ooh, that's a pretty little girl.' They would talk about my eyelashes or that I was sensitive or that I was crying all the time. I didn't want to play in the dirt outside with the boys.

I remember growing up wanting to play with the boundaries of what was considered 'feminine' and 'masculine' clothing, but feeling like I couldn't or shouldn't for whatever reason.

I thought it was very important that femininity wasn't lost.

Hedi Slimane told me I was boyish in his eyes. For him femininity and masculinity are the same thing, the difference is not so interesting, he said.

I've given up trying to convince the world about the authenticity of my femininity.

I don't really embrace femininity.

If you're female, and you want to express your femininity, you're actually demonized in the 'Free To Be... You And Me' generation.

I think dancing was a way of showing your femininity and, through the years, your strength, because it's a male-dominated industry.

The U.K.'s got the most advanced relationship with masculinity, femininity and sexuality.

Feminism is cancer.

For me feminism is equality.

I think that men need to have a little bit of manism. You have feminism. I don't have a problem with that.

People get really turned off by feminism.

Feminism isn't just for women. It's for men.

I'm sure a few marriages broke up because of feminism; it doesn't make feminism a cult.

I used to think feminism was a liberating force - now I see many of those people are just censors under a different name.