Carmen Carrera Quotes

I always say I never felt 'latched' to a gender. I just kind of always felt like myself, and I never felt like I had to do certain things or be a certain way to fit into a certain mold.

I just don't like to be called a 'woman' or a 'lady' because I don't feel like either a woman or a lady. I feel like a musician.

I never felt like a boy or a girl, never felt I should wear this or dress like that. I think that's where that confidence comes from because I never felt I had to play a part in my life. I just always come as Shamir.

I don't think of myself as statically a girl.

Male? Female? It's not always relevant to some people. They are who they are - they might not fit into a specific box.

I don't think gender is aesthetically defining for me.

I don't think of myself as a model. I'm genderqueer, and I've got tattoos.

I think of my gender as a part of my complex humanity.

If gender is on a spectrum, where one finds oneself is completely unique.

I don't think I look like a boy, but I don't think androgyny is such a bad thing.

It's not like, 'Okay, today I want to look like a man, or today I want to look like a woman.' I want to look like me. It just so happens that some of the things I like are feminine.

For some people, pronouns are a very important part of how they identify. I completely understand that. For me, I have more of a looser interpretation.

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.

A huge part of my identity is being a woman, and that's really important for me, and that's a big part of my self-expression, so I think it's really interesting sort of exploring what it means if someone doesn't have that.

I was a weird but definite kid, and there were essentially no gender roles for me to fit into.

Wearing one hoop earring and playing with the androgyny - that's who I am. That's what I like to do. And I feel the world should see that. I'm not going to put a shield up or be more feminine to make people feel comfortable.

I was always a bit boy, a bit girl.

There are jobs that can be done equally well by men or by women and that finally you can't see a difference. But from the moment that you involve yourself fully in writing a novel, for example, or an essay, then you are involved as a woman, in the same way that you can't deny your nationality - you are French, you are a man, you are a woman... all this passes into the writing.

Honestly, I like everything, boyish girls, girlish boys, the heavy and the skinny.

I quite like androgyny.

I grew up in a commune where no one considered me female, particularly.

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

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

I can have an androgynous quality.