Ryan Gosling Quotes

One is not born a woman, but becomes one.

What we ought to see in the agonies of puberty is the result of the conditioning that maims the female personality in creating the feminine.

I grew up in a very patriarchal family. And I believe that I like being a woman. I act behaving like a woman.

One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.

I think we're socialized out of being women, and then we have to find our way back to it. That's hard to do.

My father always defined my gender to my brothers. He'd say, 'This is your sister; you must take care of her.'

Once upon a time, growing up male gave little boys a sense of certainty about the natural order of things. We had short hair, wore pants, and played baseball. Girls had long hair, wore skirts, and, no matter how hard they tried, always threw a baseball just like a girl.

I grew up with a lot of boys. I probably have a lot of testosterone for a woman.

I grew up with all boys in my family, where there was no place for girlie stuff. But it's amazing to walk into my house now. Everything is pink!

I've always had gender confusion. I had two older brothers, and I've been predominantly male influenced. I really always looked up to my dad, really always looked up to my brothers... I had a lot of male friends growing up. It didn't help that in my town, where I lived, there were no female musicians.

My parents never told me, 'You're supposed to wear pink,' or 'You're meant to do this because you're a girl.'

This idea that males are physically aggressive and females are not has distinct drawbacks for both sexes.

Men were only made into 'men' with great difficulty even in primitive society: the male is not naturally 'a man' any more than the woman. He has to be propped up into that position with some ingenuity, and is always likely to collapse.

I considered myself one of the boys. My brothers didn't spoil me at all, not at all. I was very tomboyish. It wasn't as if I was like a princess or anything like that.

I wanted to be a boy when I was young because boys got to do all the good stuff. So I became very aggressive and very competitive at a young age.

Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female - whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male.

If there's a woman who is exhibiting her femininity or performing her femininity, it's always seen as meant to pull in the male gaze.

I'm saying that the depth of exploration of the male psyche and the female psyche is uneven. I see further, deeper renderings of what it means to be a man.

Masculine and feminine roles are not biologically fixed but socially constructed.

All over the world, young males and females, schooled in the art of patriarchal thinking, are building an identity on a foundation that sees the will to do violence as the essential way to assert being.

I have never been a girlie girl and have always been a boys' girl with an equal amount of friends who were boys and girls.

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.

I'm often uncomfortable with girliness, to be honest.

I think a woman gets more if she acts feminine.

When you're the only girl in a family of men, you have to be pretty sassy.