Christine and the Queens Quotes

I have never been good at doing impressions of women. Which is understandable. There's a gender issue.

If you're female, and you want to express your femininity, you're actually demonized in the 'Free To Be... You And Me' generation.

Any kind of gender expression is performance for me, regardless of where it is on the spectrum.

Gender is a kind of imitation for which there is no original; in fact, it is a kind of imitation that produces the very notion of the original as an effect and consequence of the imitation itself.

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.

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

I was a tomboy.

There was a time where I knew I was as funny as many dudes, but I had people telling me, 'You have to wear a dress onstage. You need to be more feminine.'

Gender is a spectrum.

Everybody is in drag.

All the people that are so quick to say that, like, because I wear womenswear sometimes, that means I'm transitioning. People are just so ignorant and dumb sometimes.

I never questioned if I was effeminate or not. That didn't matter in the theatre.

I was a bit of a tomboy.

I don't feel like a very feminine woman sometimes. I feel manly. When I was in my twenties I would say I was a masculine girl and now I realise the whole idea of femaleness is a construct. I'm a boyish girl, who talks over people and I do a boyish job.

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

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

When gender comes down upon us, male or female, it comes as a restriction.

I'm often accused of 'going too far,' but I recognize that behind my desire to shock is an even stronger desire to evade the 'feminine' stereotype: 'You say women are afraid of mice? I'll show you! I'll eat the mouse!

Women are all female impersonators to some degree.

I am a thespian trapped in a man's body.

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

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

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.

One is not born a woman, but becomes one.

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.