Diane Farr Quotes

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.

I was a tomboy.

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.

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

If you're female, and you want to express your femininity, you're actually demonized in the 'Free To Be... You And Me' generation.

No one has ever seen me as feminine.

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.

At heart I am a tomboy.

The demands of having to be 'masculine' are as damaging to men as the demands of having to be 'feminine' are to women. I wish we could all agree just to wash it all away. Begin again.

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

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

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

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.

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

Masculine and feminine roles are not biologically fixed but socially constructed.

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

No lady is ever a gentleman.

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 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.

In Georgia, apparently, men are men and women are women - at least in their folk dance.

For men, being too put-together implies femininity.

Almost all the ideas we have about being a man or being a woman are so burdened with pain, anxiety, fear and self-doubt. For many of us, the confusion around this question is excruciating.