Karen Civil Quotes

If I want to wear a dress, I'll wear a dress.

I'm just doing what I want. I'm not thinking, like, 'Today I'm going to dress like a woman.' I'm not even thinking about that. I'm just thinking, 'I want to wear this today; I want to be this today.'

I wear what I want to wear and appear on stage as myself.

I don't want to be fake. I'm just being me. And I have the power to break stereotypes and whatever useless rules that society puts on us.

I know people want me to sort of defend myself, to sit here and be like, 'I'm a boy, but I wear make-up sometimes.' But, you know, to me, it doesn't really matter.

To a certain extent, this tour is a celebration of individuality and that you can invent and reinvent yourself. You should have the power to be able to do that. Sexuality is a part of that. It should release you. It doesn't have to be an issue. It shouldn't box you in.

I love to be individual, to step beyond gender.

I wanted to use my possibility to be an individual, and I suppose I have, no?

I've never felt stigmatized in my profession, nor have I allowed myself to. I don't feel either male or female, I feel I am just me, and I should be able to do whatever I like.

I dress the way I want. I don't pretend to be someone I'm not.

I didn't want people to decide what I was going to wear and what I was going to look like and how I should behave.

I started my career in parent education with the idea that we needed to let our kids go. I believed that parents were suffocating for their children. There was no room for individuality and personhood.

You call yourself what you want to call yourself.

I don't wear dresses and flowers in my hair and float around!

I believe someone should be able to dress according to the mood they're in. It shouldn't be forced and you shouldn't have to follow a trend.

I'm not a machista that tells his girl what she has to put on. I let her be herself.

I'm always trying to slip out of those labels everyone tries to put round your neck. We all have multiple selves.

We should be able to be ourselves. Make a political stand if you want to.

I'm a big believer in everybody being themselves. If not doing a swimsuit calendar is yourself, that's great. But if doing a swimsuit calendar is yourself, then you should be able to do it. What I do outside the car adds to who I am and expresses a different side of me.

I don't put labels on myself.

I dress like a boy most of the time because I like what's comfortable, so sometimes when I have to wear dresses and makeup, it's kind of comedic.

I'm going to do what I want to do. I'm going to be who I really am. I'm going to figure out what that is.

Let me do me.

I'm starting to realise that there are certain themes that I return to, those being that there is no such thing as normal, and people finding their voice and living authentically. And also that you can be influenced and helped through an extended family.

If my life choices had to be predicated based on what was expected of me from a community on either side, that's going to make me feel really straitjacketed, and I don't want to feel that.