Leslie Jordan Quotes

I used to hate to be a girl.

One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.

I can act like a boy as much as I want, but when I wake up in the morning, I'm still a woman.

One is not born a woman, but becomes one.

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

In the face of patriarchy, it is a brave act indeed for both men and women to embrace, rather than shame or attempt to eradicate, the feminine.

Girls can wear jeans, cut their hair short, wear shirts and boots, 'cause it's okay to be a boy, but for a boy to look like a girl is degrading.

I don't have the panic I used to have, meeting people who are androgynous, but when you meet someone whose identity is unclear, that throws your own identity into flux because the way we treat each other is very gendered.

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

Men are every bit as gendered as women.

Most men are very attached to the idea of being male, and usually experience a lot of fear and insecurity around the idea of being a man. Most women are very identified with their gender, and also experience a tremendous amount of fear and insecurity.

It is probably true to say that the largest scope for changes still lies in men's attitude to women, and in women's attitude to themselves

Mentors of mine were under a big pressure to minimize their femininity to make it. I'm not going to do that. That takes away my power. I'm not going to compromise who I am.

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

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 never get to forget who I am, my gender identity.

The gender question has always obsessed me.

I have never felt oppressed by women or that feminism is a problem. I do think boys find it hard to like things seen as feminine. I want my son not to feel self-conscious he likes ballet and my daughter to carry on playing Han Solo; that's all.

I'm totally fine with myself. It's the other people I run into out there who are so hung up on gender. The way it trips them up is their problem, not mine.

I basically lived like a guy for, certainly, the first decade of my career, and I just wanted to blend in.

I went by Kyle, and I made friends on the team as Kyle. It went on for a pretty long time, until I went to a birthday party in a dress and all the hockey players were like... 'Kyle?'

It took me a really long time to get past all of that internalized dissociation with being female that I was being given by media.

Don't think of your gender as a handicap.

I never wanted to be a man. I feel sorry for them.

I'm a poster child for feminism whether I like it or not, but I was resistant to the part of me that was a woman.