Audre Lorde Quotes

Masculine and feminine aspects exist in all beings.

To recommend that women become identical to men, would be simple reversal, and would defeat the whole point of androgyny, and for that matter, feminism: in both, the whole point is choice.

As a concept [androgyny] raise[s] anxiety levels by conjuring up a conformist, unisex vision, the very opposite of the individuality and uniqueness that feminism actually has in mind.

Androgyny suggests a spirit of reconciliation between the sexes; it suggests, further, a full range of experience…it suggests a spectrum upon which human beings choose their places without regard to propriety or custom.

Either sex alone is half itself.

Well, there's a little bit of man in every woman and a little bit of woman in every man.

I quite like androgyny.

Nature chooses who will be transgender; individuals don't choose this.

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.

Hedi Slimane told me I was boyish in his eyes. For him femininity and masculinity are the same thing, the difference is not so interesting, he said.

Androgyny is not trying to manage the relationship between the opposites; it is simply flowing between them.

I have always believed that we all have male and female within us.

I was always into very androgynous things. Guys, girls... I'm into androgyny in general.

I think of my gender as a part of my complex humanity.

What interested me, was that as we age, those seemingly unbreakable barriers that define us, our gender, they begin to crack, to blur; they're not absolutes anymore.

I love the idea that we're going to be genderless and boundaryless in the future.

I don't think I look like a boy, but I don't think androgyny is such a bad thing.

There were definitely songs in the past that were me dealing with living this gender dysphoria, and sometimes they were really direct and no one picked up on it - but oftentimes, they were more veiled in metaphor.

I do say gender fluid, because I experience my gender identity as being fluid because it's on a spectrum.

I spent so many years not understanding my own gender identity and not having the language for it, and not having those conversations, that now I'm so eager to talk about it. Then I learn more about myself and other people.

Bodies have a sex, but gender is a thing we made up, like your star sign or nationality. It doesn't really say anything about who you are. The destruction of gender binary would free everybody.

I think the world is kind of catching on that gender roles aren't so necessary and becoming a lot less defined and starting to become a lot more about the individual and character of that person.

Being a woman is an option, being trans is an option, and they're options that appeal to me. We need to listen to people - not labels, not semantics.

I guess all of us have a little bit of both masculinity and femininity, and bridging the gap between those two things is really fertile.