Elle King Quotes

As a little kid, I was convinced that I was a guy.

I grew up as a tomboy, so I'm used to being around guys.

I think when I was quite younger, I was always quite a tomboy.

I grew up playing soccer with the boys - quite far from reading magazines.

I'm not a guy's guy. I always loved girl things. I loved dolls. I loved dressing up and much more.

I'm not looking for a boyish girl. I'm looking for a boy. And I'm not looking for a girlish boy either.

I had no kind of work ethic and I always felt that music - especially rock 'n' roll - was a more for boys.

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

I am such a tomboy. I grew up fighting with boys, mainly - beating up boys, actually.

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.

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.

It's very hard as a tall woman to remove your deliberately pronounced feminine aspects and look more masculine.

When all the girls were getting all made up and getting into all that girl stuff in junior high I was out playing softball or touch football with the guys.

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.

I'm more androgynous, because men are supposed to be more spatial, women more literal - I'm a tomboy.

A lot of kids are bullied because of their sexual identity or expression. It's often the effeminate boys and the masculine girls, the ones who violate gender norms and expectations, who get bullied.

I don't have the panic I used to have, meeting people who are androgynous, but when you meet someone whose identity is unclear, that throws your own identity into flux because the way we treat each other is very gendered.

When I was a kid, I was always mistaken for a girl.

What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.

I go feminine, I go masculine. I am both, actually. I think the male side is a bit stronger in me, and I have to tone it down sometimes. I'm not like a normal woman, that's for sure.

I've always wanted to be a man for a day.

A man is attractive when he is slightly disturbing like a woman, a woman when she's a little disturbing like a man.

I have never felt oppressed by women or that feminism is a problem. I do think boys find it hard to like things seen as feminine. I want my son not to feel self-conscious he likes ballet and my daughter to carry on playing Han Solo; that's all.

I grew up believing I sounded like a boy.

I don't feel like a very feminine woman sometimes. I feel manly. When I was in my twenties I would say I was a masculine girl and now I realise the whole idea of femaleness is a construct. I'm a boyish girl, who talks over people and I do a boyish job.