Laura Jane Grace Quotes

I don't have the panic I used to have, meeting people who are androgynous, but when you meet someone whose identity is unclear, that throws your own identity into flux because the way we treat each other is very gendered.

I grew up believing I sounded like a boy.

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

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.

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

Gender doesn't exist in my book.

I'm pretty feminine.

I never feel confined by gender, by labels, by expectations, by stereotypes. I'm free to be myself.

I've never played on my gender.

When I was five, long before I understood what the word 'gender' meant, I would always tell my mother that I wished I were a girl.

I don't really embrace femininity.

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

Gender is a way to hide from the simple truth we all tell: 'Hey, I'm here, I have a body.'

Gender is between your ears and not between your legs.

As you get older it's more confusing. Suddenly, there's more pressure to fit in to your assigned gender.

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 don't think gender is aesthetically defining for me.

I think that people are most comfortable when the world is orderly. I think there's the sense that when you begin questioning basic distinctions, such as the distinction between being male and being female, it represents a threat to the social order.

I don't think gender even exists.

I have always fought against being gender specific. I just don't like being identified as female: I'm a person.

No one has ever seen me as feminine.

Believe it or not, I am 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'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.