Pete Townshend Quotes

I felt alien my whole life, but I didn't feel alien because of my gender. Other people made me aware of my gender.

I identify with women more than men. I guess I have a strong feminine side.

Growing up with three boys in a heavily male-dominated world, I especially needed to express myself as a woman.

I have two children who are daughters, so female issues have always registered high on my scale of awareness.

Men are every bit as gendered as women.

I'm totally fine with myself. It's the other people I run into out there who are so hung up on gender. The way it trips them up is their problem, not mine.

I'm of the opinion that gender is a social construct.

I would gladly admit women are superior to men if only they would stop trying to be the same as us.

I was surrounded by strong women so it had never even occurred to me that women were anything other than equal to men.

Being in drag for three months - I now have an idea of what women go through. At least maybe a little.

I think we're struggling with trying to redefine various positions at this point in history. To allow freedom for women, freedom for men, freedom from those sharply defined gender roles.

I do think the attempt to raise consciousness has succeeded. People are very aware of gender concerns now.

I'm not a feminist.

We talked about Tootsie, the idea in Tootsie is that a man becomes a better man for having been a woman.

There is more difference within the sexes than between them.

As societies continue to loosen their standards regarding what is appropriate female and male behavior, I think we are going to realize we have not only underestimated women, but also men.

I understand I'm supposed to be feminine and dainty, but I'm not. There are two sides to the coin. People are more impressed with things that I do because they almost treat you as if you're handicapped if you're a woman... people can be impressed that I can play a few chords on the guitar.

In the face of patriarchy, it is a brave act indeed for both men and women to embrace, rather than shame or attempt to eradicate, the feminine.

Hedi was and is still misspelled 'Heidi,' and my perception of genders ended up slightly out of focus from an early age.

I figured I could do 'It's A Man's Man's Man's World', because I believe it's the truth.

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.

As far as I'm concerned, being any gender is a drag.

Men are not conditioned to be less powerful than a woman. It will be the wise woman who realizes this and is sensitive to that issue.

I don't see gender as the most significant fact of human existence.

Ah, well, do I wish that we lived in a world where gender didn't figure so prominently? Of course. Do I even think about myself as a woman when I go to make art? Of course not.