Andrew Cohen Quotes

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.

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.

I can't write - I can't think like a woman... it's not natural, but I've tried.

I wanted to be a boy when I was young because boys got to do all the good stuff. So I became very aggressive and very competitive at a young age.

We talked about Tootsie, the idea in Tootsie is that a man becomes a better man for having been a woman.

Masculine and feminine roles are not biologically fixed but socially constructed.

It just so happens that some of the things I like are feminine.

Men are every bit as gendered as women.

What I do know is that traditional gender roles are very real and flipping the norm is difficult for even the strongest, funniest, smartest men.

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

Men and women are different: we have different tendencies, skills, and behaviors. This should be accepted and fostered, not demonized. Because the end result is simply more effeminate men and more masculine women. Who wants that?

I am not an expert on that whole issue of gender.

Girls can wear jeans and cut their hair short and wear shirts and boots because it's okay to be a boy; for girls it's like promotion. But for a boy to look like a girl is degrading, according to you, because secretly you believe that being a girl is degrading.

I am not metrosexual. I am not macho. I am normal. I don't even wear nail paint.

I felt alien my whole life, but I didn't feel alien because of my gender. Other people made me aware of my gender.

I think the fallacy is to think that Women's Liberation meant that men and women would become interchangeable. That has not happened, and most men and women would not want it to happen.

You think that being a girl is degrading, but secretly, you'd love to know what it's like, wouldn't you?

I think we're struggling with trying to redefine various positions at this point in history. To allow freedom for women, freedom for men, freedom from those sharply defined gender roles.

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

When I was born, there was a very isolated idea of what it meant to be a man or a woman, and you belonged to one gender or the other.

I look a little bit like Barbie and talk a little bit like Ken. It's easier for me to sit in the middle of the boys' club than to be surrounded by people concerned about getting their hair and nails done.

There is more difference within the sexes than between them.

The more insight I get, the more scared I get of women in general.

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.

As far as I'm concerned, being any gender is a drag.