Nico Santos Quotes

Nothing is either all masculine or all feminine except having sex.

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 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.

I don't think any gay dude is gangsta, period.

Girls can wear jeans, cut their hair short, wear shirts and boots, 'cause it's okay to be a boy, but for a boy to look like a girl is degrading.

It's definitely part of it, that the men were having fun and doing the interesting things but also, I don't know, I'm just thinking more about gender and how maybe in some way I am more of a boy than a girl.

I am normally the manly-ish girl on the planet.

It just so happens that some of the things I like are feminine.

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.

I was a tomboy.

I may have had the body and emotions of a woman, but I've always had the head of a man. I've lived my life like a man.

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.

Dressing up like a woman does not make me less of a man.

Art is feminine... Look, if you're handsome and young and beautiful, well, people are always going to say that you're gay.

Where I grew up, the one unmistakable sign of homosexuality was to betray some interest in your appearance.

If a straight man dresses well, chances are he's not straight.

I grew up in a house full of women - I have four sisters. I'm more feminine than some gay men.

My whole family thinks I'm gay, I guess it's always been that way. Maybe it's 'cause of the way that I walk, Makes them think I like... boys.

A man who reads effeminate may well be consistently heterosexual, and another one might be gay. We can't read sexuality off of gender.

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

I am not metrosexual. I am not macho. I am normal. I don't even wear nail paint.

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

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

As someone who has always felt at times pretty genderless because of my size, it interests me to challenge ideas of prejudice and femininity, and what it is to be a woman.

People have often asked if I'm gay because I don't go out of my way to spit and scratch and give people attitude.