M. F. K. Fisher Quotes

I love the idea of there being two sexes, don't you?

People forget we come from an embryo and we're part sperm and part ovary. We have both sides in us.

When I was very young, I wanted to be a girl. I was jealous that girls got to be princesses and wear skirts. It tormented me. When I was 6, I even heard that you could change your sex, and I was very intrigued until the moment I realized that if I changed into a girl, I would be an ugly girl, and this is the last thing I wanted to be.

Some people say I appeared on the Phil Donahue show to tell 'my' sex change story but I've never appeared on his show for any reason... not even as a member of the studio audience.

The sexes in each species of being... are always true equivalents - equals but not identical.

Gender is between your ears and not between your legs.

We're born man, woman and sexual beings.

We now know that sex is complicated enough that we have to admit nature doesn't draw the line for us between male and female, or between male and intersex and female and intersex; we actually draw that line on nature.

Some people believe I have an automatic advantage over other female MMA fighters, so they think 'well she has to be stronger, because she used to be a male,' but if they look into the science of it and what the hormones do to the body, to the male body once taken over a period of time... it dissipates.

Either men cannot be women or there is not such thing as a woman.

It would be easier for people to grasp that gender, sex, and sexual orientation are different things if we had as much imagination in real life as we do when we are making our movies.

My life isn't really that different from a biological female.

Sex is biological, but gender is mental.

Gender is something that occurs in the mind, and sex is something that occurs, you know, everywhere else on the body. And whether or not those two things happen to align - well, if they do, great. If they don't, also great.

Whereas in the past people have seen the two sexes as almost incomprehensibly different, now there is a group of people that are explaining the connections between both the genders, literally in the way their biology informs some of their expression.

Is it written that equality between men and women means one can change sex? Obviously not.

I think in three or four years, there are going to be a whole lot more people who don’t think it’s necessary to figure out if you’re gay or straight. It’s like, just do your thing.

The moon is always female and so am I although often in the vale of razorblades I have wished I could put on and take off my sex like a dress and why not?

You can really learn from Donahue. I didn't know you could be a woman in a man's body. You go out and you can't parallel park.

Once a female, always a female. Nature is not always infallible but she always abides by her mistakes.

I believe in the difference between men and women. In fact, I embrace the difference.

We've got 12-year-old boys dressing up as transvestites.

New research shows that men and women are born different. What must you think if that is shocking news to you? Men and women are born different.

The male is an incomplete female, a walking abortion, aborted at the gene stage

The differences between the two sexes is one of the important conditions upon which we have built the many varieties of human culture that give human beings dignity and stature.