Young M.A Quotes

The fact that I was a girl never damaged my ambitions to be a pope or an emperor.

When gender comes down upon us, male or female, it comes as a restriction.

I have never been good at doing impressions of women. Which is understandable. There's a gender issue.

Sexuality and gender don't change anyone's performance on the court.

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

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

Character is made up of a variety of different things. One of those elements is gender.

I was always watching the boys and how they interacted. It comes with being a feminist, just somebody who thinks a lot about gender and how it plays out in society.

If women talk in ways expected of them or project a feminine demeanor, it's seen as weak. But if they talk in ways associated with men or bosses, then they're seen as too aggressive. Whatever they do violates one or the other expectation: either you're not talking as you should as a woman or as boss.

The gender question has always obsessed me.

I think our society has sort of built this gender binary, and the way we've said it exists does not really exist in nature.

A man in a dress can get away with a lot.

Within my immediate creative community, I would say gender is something that I've always been interested in and always talked about.

I am not an expert on that whole issue of gender.

When people say, "Oh, she plays like a dude," it's usually dudes who are the ones saying it. They're saying, "Oh, she's as good as us." Of course, that's a stupid statement.

I've been a feminist since the day I was born. I wanted to play football. I didn't want to play with dolls; I wanted to play with boys and didn't understand why I couldn't.

The problem with gender is that it prescribes how we should be, rather than recognising how we are.

What worries me is that the debate about gender differences still seems to polarize nature vs. nurture, with some in the social sciences and humanities wanting to assert that biology plays no role at all, apparently unaware of the scientific evidence to the contrary

Even in 'Victor/Victoria,' there was talk about what it means to be a woman, what it means to be a man. You didn't get that in the old days, in 'Charley's Aunt' or 'Some Like It Hot.'

I've always been very vocal, but there have been moments where I've found it difficult to negotiate things that are about gender.

I've given up trying to convince the world about the authenticity of my femininity.

Jeanne d'Arc was frowned upon for her masculine attire.

You should never be put into a mold based on your gender.

I don't think it's a good thing to talk about women's issues being exactly the same as the issues of trans women because I don't think that's true.

Growing up, I was not told that there were women's areas of preoccupation or male ones.