BeBe Zahara Benet Quotes

I may have had the body and emotions of a woman, but I've always had the head of a man. I've lived my life like a man.

Nothing is either all masculine or all feminine except having sex.

I'm not 'one of the guys.' I don't want to pretend to be one on stage. I'm not going to dress like a guy or carry myself like one.

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

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

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

Being perceived as a guy is nothing new or complicated to me. It is what it is.

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.

It's definitely part of it, that the men were having fun and doing the interesting things but also, I don't know, I'm just thinking more about gender and how maybe in some way I am more of a boy than a girl.

I am normally the manly-ish girl on the planet.

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

I go feminine, I go masculine. I am both, actually. I think the male side is a bit stronger in me, and I have to tone it down sometimes. I'm not like a normal woman, that's for sure.

I was very much a tomboy. I just couldn't do the pink ballet tutus.

In a family of all girls, I was always the 'boy' in my mind - the protector, the masculine one. No one would ever have to worry about me.

I'm quite feminine.

I'm not trying to be a girl by putting on a dress - gender is separated by fabric.

I had always been a tomboy - I still am, at heart.

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

I was always just so feminine. I don't think anyone who ever met me would describe me as a man.

I was a regular little boy who also enjoyed things that girls did.

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

Some people look gender non-conforming because they want to look that way - they don't want to conform to society's expectations.

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.

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.