Elvira Nabiullina Quotes

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

I wish everything was gender neutral. I wish we weren't separated by boundaries like pink and blue and little things like that. I wish we could choose how we express ourselves without hate.

I feel like there's no such thing as gender.

I was a regular little boy who also enjoyed things that girls did.

I think that there's so many versions of femininity, and in terms of gender as a binary construct, that seems to be being dismantled.

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

I think one of the biggest misconceptions is that only gender non-conforming, non-binary, or trans people have a gender identity. But the truth is, everyone has a gender identity.

Bodies have a sex, but gender is a thing we made up, like your star sign or nationality. It doesn't really say anything about who you are. The destruction of gender binary would free everybody.

I have been gender-nonconforming my entire life.

I think the world is kind of catching on that gender roles aren't so necessary and becoming a lot less defined and starting to become a lot more about the individual and character of that person.

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

I absolutely think it is more acceptable for people who were assigned female at birth to dress in a typically gender non-conforming way. There was a time when people of all genders had long hair and anyone who wanted to wore jewelry - it was more a sign of status than a sign of femininity, per se.

I've always seen the world as very gender-neutral.

I don't think about being male or female, I just behave naturally. I think in terms of excellence in science, not gender.

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

I'm in favour of hipster androgyny: Any trend that permits men to rebel against strict gender rules of appearance is going to make the world a more expressive and sensitive place for all of us.

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.

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?

Hardly nobody gets to live two genders in their life.

Androgyny is not trying to manage the relationship between the opposites; it is simply flowing between them.

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

A gender-equal society would be one where the word 'gender' does not exist: where everyone can be themselves.

Once women are not excluded, I don't think any of us will give a damn what pronouns are used. That wasn't the point.

To recommend that women become identical to men, would be simple reversal, and would defeat the whole point of androgyny, and for that matter, feminism: in both, the whole point is choice.