Rae Carson Quotes

Hardly nobody gets to live two genders in their life.

I figured out it was a social thing, what women were allowed to do. At a very young age, I decided I was not going to follow women's rules.

Everyone else is following these male and female tracks that have already been set for them, but when you're trans there is no trail.

I don't know what I am if I'm not a woman.

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

Something is unfolding, being revealed to me. I see that there's a whole world of of girls and their doings that has been unknown to me, and that I can be part of without making any effort at all. I don't have to keep up with anyone, run as fast, aim as well, make loud explosive noises, decode messages, die on cue. I don't have to think about whether I do these things well, as well as a boy. All I have to do is sit on the floor and cut frying pans our of the Eaton's Catalogue with embroidery scissors, and say I've done it badly.

I'd say my relation to being a woman is, I mean being a woman is whatever you want because the concept of gender is not really real, you know? And so for me it's about being comfortable in myself. It's about allowing myself to express who I am in any way that I want to, whether that be through my clothing, the way I present myself to the world, whether that be through like my gender identity and my pronouns. It's just really about allowing yourself to really be expressive and creative.

Shave off your beard and wear a dress. You would be a great female impersonator.

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

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

For all intents and purposes, I'm a woman.

I was a tomboy as a kid - I was skinny and had cropped hair and was often mistaken for a boy - and up until I was about six, I had my own very fluid ideas of gender in that I believed that, somehow, an individual could choose whether or not s/he wanted to be a boy or a girl.

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

I consider myself a boy in a dress.

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.

It took me a long time to realise that I was a girl as a teenager. At that point I never really believed it. I looked like a boy for a long time. Now, finally, I feel like a woman.

I love wearing men's clothing and underwear.

For the longest time, I thought I was a boy. I really did. I wore boys' clothes, played tag football.

Everyone covering 'Stage Beauty' asks me: 'What's it like to wear a dress?'

At my school, which was all boys, I played almost exclusively lady parts. When I say lady parts, I mean parts that were ladies. To actually play lady parts would be weird, even by English standards.

I get the male thing. I like being that for a woman. But I also like being a woman, too. I like being girly.

Number one, I don't understand a transgender. I don't understand. Is it a guy dressed up like a girl, or a girl dressed up like a guy?

I was born a girl; it just took me a little while to become one fully.

I don't understand when you say I'm a man or I have a deep voice. I know I'm a female, so there's no question for me.