Nell Scovell Quotes

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

I go feminine, I go masculine. I am both, actually. I think the male side is a bit stronger in me, and I have to tone it down sometimes. I'm not like a normal woman, that's for sure.

No one has ever seen me as feminine.

Dressing up like a woman does not make me less of a man.

I am not metrosexual. I am not macho. I am normal. I don't even wear nail paint.

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.

I am normally the manly-ish girl on the planet.

I'm not 'one of the guys.' I don't want to pretend to be one on stage. I'm not going to dress like a guy or carry myself like one.

A man in a dress can get away with a lot.

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.

I don't really embrace femininity.

"Gender trouble" is old. I mean, you know, in New York, it is old. I mean it's sweet. I mean people are really kind about it but it's like a former love affair you had and you're done.

I had always been a tomboy - I still am, at heart.

I can act like a boy as much as I want, but when I wake up in the morning, I'm still a woman.

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.

I consider myself a boy in a dress.

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

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.

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.

My name, my real name, is Tracy. I always thought I was like a boy named Sue. So I made my friends call me 'Tray.'

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

It just so happens that some of the things I like are feminine.

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