Cate Blanchett Quotes

I believe gender is a spectrum, and I fall somewhere between Channing Tatum and Winnie the Pooh.

Being trans, I've grown up with the understanding that most women are born girls, yet some are born boys. And most men are born boys, yet some are born girls. And if you're ready for this, some people are born girls or boys and choose to identify outside our society's binary system, making them genderqueer.

My sex appeal lies in suits and ties, but my body is femme.

Virginia Woolf said that writers must be androgynous. I'll go a step further. You must be bisexual.

I was the kid growing up who would play with G.I. Joes in a pink dress and then run off to play with my Barbies. It doesn't mean that I'm less girly, it just means that I have this other side of me. It's kinda cool to be a little bit of both, I think.

I think I've always had that struggle my whole life, of feeling a little bit more gender-neutral, feeling more comfortable as a creative person when I'm dressed like a boy, when I'm dressed more masculine.

Hedi Slimane told me I was boyish in his eyes. For him femininity and masculinity are the same thing, the difference is not so interesting, he said.

I consider myself a boy in a dress.

What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.

I'm more androgynous, because men are supposed to be more spatial, women more literal - I'm a tomboy.

I'm naturally androgynous. I don't wear makeup or skirts.

What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.

When I was a little girl - well, like, a teenager - I wanted to be Sam Jackson. I always wanted to be men.

I wear menswear all the time. I don't do anything to make myself look more feminine. I naturally look and am more feminine.

I like dressing like a guy. I love it. When I was modeling I used to do pictures where I would dress up like my little brother. No makeup, and I looked like a boy.

The natures of men and women are very mixed, and for me, the most fascinating type of woman is the one who is a little masculine, has a little of the man in her, and the sort of man who is fabulous is the one who is a little woman, too. It's impossible not to mix them!

I think of myself as a tomgirl. A boy who's girly in every presentational aspect. And I play guitar and write good songs.

I was never going to become a beautiful, passable woman, and I was never going to be a man. It's a quandary. But the trans condition is a beautiful mystery; it's one of nature's best ideas.

I'm queer - and queer, to me, is not being stuck in a binary and being kind of fluid.

There's something about being a woman and being able to dress up in men's clothing, so to speak.

I loved being a man-woman. It's much more interesting than being one or the other.

Shave off your beard and wear a dress. You would be a great female impersonator.

One out of forty American men wears women's clothing. We've had more than forty presidents. One of these guys has been dancing around the Oval Office in a prom dress.

I was a tomboy and most of my close friends were male.

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