Jonathan Anderson Quotes

We sort of expect to see men in women's clothes. It's part of our culture. The key thing is, it has to be done quite badly.

I'm not convinced that what are traditionally considered to be male energies or qualities or female energies or qualities really have as much to do with gender as many people think they do.

Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic.

I think our society has sort of built this gender binary, and the way we've said it exists does not really exist in nature.

Gender and sex are about rules which we have invented, but we are animals; we belong to nature.

I do not feel that some things are masculine and others are feminine.

It's interesting that people think that pants are masculine. Pants are pants.

Gender is more of a continuum than we are willing to admit when we hit the restroom.

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.

We've been socialised and told that there is a way to describe people, and that way is by their gender or their sex.

Our notions of what a human being is problematically depend on there being two coherent genders. And if someone doesn't comply with either the masculine norm or the feminine norm, their very humaness is called into question.

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

I have a lot of characteristics that would normally be present in a guy and then less that would be present in a woman.

Being perceived as a guy is nothing new or complicated to me. It is what it is.

I know people want me to sort of defend myself, to sit here and be like, 'I'm a boy, but I wear make-up sometimes.' But, you know, to me, it doesn't really matter.

I wanted to show a normal young girl whose only difference was that she behaved in the way a boy might, without any sense of guilt on a moral or sexual level.

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

To say that gender is performative is a little different because for something to be performative means that it produces a series of effects. We act and walk and speak and talk in ways that consolidate an impression of being a man or being a woman.

I'm feminine, but I wouldn't say that I'm girly in any way at all.

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.

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?

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

I look a little bit like Barbie and talk a little bit like Ken. It's easier for me to sit in the middle of the boys' club than to be surrounded by people concerned about getting their hair and nails done.

My secret world had been invaded, and the attractive figure of Tiptree - he did strike several people as attractive - was revealed as nothing but an old lady in Virginia.

Sex and gender are such befuddling mysteries even for those of us who are in the mainstream that you'd think we'd be wary of being judgmental. Yet much of society clings to a view that gender is completely binary, when, in fact, there's overwhelming evidence of a continuum.