Elizabeth Hand Quotes

Being in drag for three months - I now have an idea of what women go through. At least maybe a little.

When you write, you are not either sex. But when you're read you are definitely gendered.

No one knows 'men' as such, any more than anyone knows 'women,' and if they do generalise they're probably trying to hide their own ignorance. You might know one 'man,' yes, or even lots of individual 'men'.

We determine whether a book is for boys or girls long before the reader gets a chance to decide: we package them with soldiers and ballet slippers on their covers, war machines and glittering gowns.

Ah, well, do I wish that we lived in a world where gender didn't figure so prominently? Of course. Do I even think about myself as a woman when I go to make art? Of course not.

Why does 'writer' have no gender, but 'actor' has a gender? What is that?

In so much SF, either gender roles are the ones we're used to in the here and now, only transported to the future, or else they're supposedly different, but characters still are slotting into various stereotypes.

Even in 'Victor/Victoria,' there was talk about what it means to be a woman, what it means to be a man. You didn't get that in the old days, in 'Charley's Aunt' or 'Some Like It Hot.'

What I'm trying to do in all senses is deconstruct our idea of gender and use the privileges that come with looking like a model to bring attention to that.

If there were genders to genres, fiction would be unquestionably feminine.

Washington and Congress are steeped in history and tradition, and that's been very male-oriented.

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

People put stock in someone being in a 'girl group,' but we don't say that a band is a 'man group.'

I'm an only child, so I never had sisters to tell me what I should like based on my gender. I liked what the boys were doing and thought: 'Why let them have all the fun?'

You think that being a girl is degrading, but secretly, you'd love to know what it's like, wouldn't you?

We are still vulnerable to gender-targeted marketing no matter how carefully we edit our children's bookshelves.

School is very conformist, and one of the very first conforming that goes on in preschool and kindergarten is gender.

We all live in a culture that is continually isolating feminine and masculine aspects, even when they're not related to people.

When my friends and I would act out movies as kids, we'd play the guys' roles, since they had the most interesting things to do. Decades later, I can hardly believe my sons and daughter are seeing many of the same limited choices in current films.

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.

As an agent, I functioned like a guy. But the fact that I was a woman affected everything.

What these books have conclusively proven is that the diffence between men and women is exactly 38 pages.

I do think the attempt to raise consciousness has succeeded. People are very aware of gender concerns now.

The business of fiction is the study of the human condition, and gender is something that many humans are obsessed with, thus making it rather difficult to ignore when studying the human condition!

Gender consciousness has become involved in almost every intellectual field: history, literature, science, anthropology. There's been an extraordinary advance.