Rain Dove Quotes

I don't think gender even exists.

I've struggled with gender norms my whole life, always feeling like I wasn't black-and-white; I was in this gray area, and gray areas really scare people because you can't define them.

I never get to forget who I am, my gender identity.

Gender is a way to hide from the simple truth we all tell: 'Hey, I'm here, I have a body.'

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

I don't have the panic I used to have, meeting people who are androgynous, but when you meet someone whose identity is unclear, that throws your own identity into flux because the way we treat each other is very gendered.

As you get older it's more confusing. Suddenly, there's more pressure to fit in to your assigned gender.

I think that people are most comfortable when the world is orderly. I think there's the sense that when you begin questioning basic distinctions, such as the distinction between being male and being female, it represents a threat to the social order.

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

I do not feel that some things are masculine and others are feminine.

I never feel confined by gender, by labels, by expectations, by stereotypes. I'm free to be myself.

We need to overcome the stereotype that genders aren't fluid.

I wish everything was gender neutral. I wish we weren't separated by boundaries like pink and blue and little things like that. I wish we could choose how we express ourselves without hate.

I've never played on my gender.

I feel like there's no such thing as gender.

I've always seen the world as very gender-neutral.

I don't really embrace femininity.

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

It's my view that gender is culturally formed, but it's also a domain of agency or freedom and that it is most important to resist the violence that is imposed by ideal gender norms, especially against those who are gender different, who are nonconforming in their gender presentation.

There is more difference within the sexes than between them.

We act as if that being of a man or that being of a woman is actually an internal reality or something that is simply true about us, a fact about us, but actually it's a phenomenon that is being produced all the time and reproduced all the time, so to say gender is performative is to say that nobody really is a gender from the start.

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.

I don't believe in categorising a gender, as it makes for discord. People always say, 'That's what men are like' or, 'That's what women do'; I don't really feel that at all. I think that's because I have two fathers, three brothers, a husband and two sons. I'm surrounded by maleness, and I couldn't possibly summarise them into a type.

I don't see gender as the most significant fact of human existence.