Susan Griffin Quotes

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

I don't think gender even exists.

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

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.

Gender doesn't exist in my book.

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

Within my immediate creative community, I would say gender is something that I've always been interested in and always talked about.

I'm of the opinion that gender is a social construct.

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 felt alien my whole life, but I didn't feel alien because of my gender. Other people made me aware of my gender.

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.

I think we're struggling with trying to redefine various positions at this point in history. To allow freedom for women, freedom for men, freedom from those sharply defined gender roles.

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

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 see myself as quite feminine. But many people seem to think differently about that; sometimes people mistake me for a man. In Paris I often hear 'bonjour monsieur'.

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

Gender is between your ears and not between your legs.

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.

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

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

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.

We have been very conditioned by the cultures that we come from and are usually very identified with the particular gender that we happen to be a member of.

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.

I think of my gender as a part of my complex humanity.