Asia Kate Dillon Quotes

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.

Being a parent of a boy who wants to wear sparkles and grow his hair long - especially when you don't know where it's all going to go - it's hard stuff. I'm not being politically incorrect in acknowledging that, am I?

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

I'm not convinced that what are traditionally considered to be male energies or qualities or female energies or qualities really have as much to do with gender as many people think they do.

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

I'm really proud that MTV has joined the conversation about breaking down binaries.

The gender thing doesn't exist; it's a social construct you don't have to fit into.

I wanted to show a normal young girl whose only difference was that she behaved in the way a boy might, without any sense of guilt on a moral or sexual level.

I was a tomboy as a kid - I was skinny and had cropped hair and was often mistaken for a boy - and up until I was about six, I had my own very fluid ideas of gender in that I believed that, somehow, an individual could choose whether or not s/he wanted to be a boy or a girl.

Hardly nobody gets to live two genders in their life.

Gender is between your ears and not between your legs.

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

I was a tomboy right from the time I was a kid and loved to be like that. I'd hate all the girlie things. Well my best friends as a kid have been boys. I get along best with the opposite sex. I guess that's the case with most people though!

If you don't know somebody, whether you're inquiring into their sex or their gender, it's invasive.

I guess all of us have a little bit of both masculinity and femininity, and bridging the gap between those two things is really fertile.

There always has to be a coming out. There's never just a gender-nonconforming person who exists on a TV show without some screaming on-the-street moment.

Masculinity involves feminine qualities, and femininity involves masculine qualities.

I think in times of fear and hysteria in a culture, gender experimentation as it pertains to men has to go underground because it scares people too much and it's too much for people to take on. Especially when a culture is held hostage by fear and hysteria and fundamentalism.

What is masculine and what is feminine, anyway?

I support equality. Everyone should feel free to live out the parts of their personality that correspond to the classic male or female image.

We all have a cross-gender character: Every woman has a man that they can play, and every man has a woman that they can play.

I have a lot of characteristics that would normally be present in a guy and then less that would be present in a woman.

Once upon a time, growing up male gave little boys a sense of certainty about the natural order of things. We had short hair, wore pants, and played baseball. Girls had long hair, wore skirts, and, no matter how hard they tried, always threw a baseball just like a girl.

Masculine and feminine aspects exist in all beings.

I want parents out there to know that it's totally natural for kids to make believe and play games. It does not mean your child is going to be transgendered. And even if it were true, why is it such a horrible thing?