Jennifer Grant Quotes

I think we won't be able to understand the operations of trans-phobia, homophobia, if we don't understand how certain kinds of links are forged between gender and sexuality in the minds of those who want masculinity to be absolutely separate from femininity and heterosexuality to be absolutely separate from homosexuality.

I dress for women and I undress for men.

Why are women... so much more interesting to men than men are to women?

Dad somewhat enjoyed being called gay. He said it made women want to prove the assertion wrong.

A man who reads effeminate may well be consistently heterosexual, and another one might be gay. We can't read sexuality off of gender.

If you live in rock and roll, as I do, you see the reality of sex, of male lust and women being aroused by male lust. It attracts women. It doesn't repel them.

I've probably understood men too well. I realise they are predatory by nature, and I have a certain acceptance of the male animal.

I think that there's a tendency for actors who play strong women to have them take on all the worst characteristics of men, to become cold and detached and hardened.

Men were only made into 'men' with great difficulty even in primitive society: the male is not naturally 'a man' any more than the woman. He has to be propped up into that position with some ingenuity, and is always likely to collapse.

Basically I'm trying to make men more sensitive and women stronger.

My dad was a very conservative Republican businessman, so obviously I considered it a problem when I realized I was a lesbian.

Nature makes woman to be won and men to win.

Society says that men need to be bigger and stronger, and they must protect their women and so on.

I think most men, heterosexual and homosexual, enjoy being considered sexual objects.

I think that the day you've figured out the differences between women and men is the day that you're no longer attracted to women. It's the difference that is so fantastic and frustrating and angering, and really sexy.

As a result of 50 years of emancipation, feminine qualities were dying out or being transferred to the males. Pansies of both sexes were everywhere, not yet completely homosexual, but confused not knowing what they were. The result was a herd of unhappy sexual misfits... the women wanting to dominate and the men to be nannied.

I'm just waiting for the moment where it's accepted that women are just as sexual as men without women having to be overtly sexy just to prove how 'liberated' they are.

What interests me is why men think of women as witches. It's because they're so fascinating and exasperating, so other.

Most women don't like good men. They say they want a good buy, but most women always wind up with the bad boy.

I never used to see anything on TV where the man was in the weaker position. It was always the female showing emotion, breaking down, being emotionally torn apart by men.

I have, in the past, been attracted to really strong and dominant men. But on the other side, I have been attracted to very androgynous men. I don't typically fall for your average jock. I just like people that are a little atypical.

A lot of times I can across as too masculine to men, and they couldn't handle me, they stayed away.

I grew up in such a macho family. I had a former Green Beret for a dad, a mom who's really rough-and-tumble, and three very macho brothers.

Proclaiming a sexual preference is something that straight men never really have to bother with.

Men are just jealous because they can't wear makeup.