Dove Cameron Quotes

If I want to wear a dress, I'll wear a dress.

I know people want me to sort of defend myself, to sit here and be like, 'I'm a boy, but I wear make-up sometimes.' But, you know, to me, it doesn't really matter.

I've always been in this weird indie world, and for a long time, I felt that it was not okay to be girly in that world.

Parents need to be more accepting of who their kids are and less concerned about what society thinks they need to be.

That is the key of this collection, being yourself. Don't be into trends. Don't make fashion own you, but you decide what you are, what you want to express by the way you dress and the way to live.

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

I had no interest in being your basic vanilla girl. I've been lucky enough that I haven't had to play that.

Someday I'm going to go onstage in a dress if I want to.

I like shocking people just because, like, I can wear a dress, too. Not even for people to go, 'Oh she's grown up,' but to show people that I'm actually a girl.

I hear that I dress like a boy and that I should be more girly, which I can understand, but I just focus on what I want to do and enjoy my time with fans who love me for who I am.

If you've got the chance to really speak your mind and do what you feel and express yourself how you want, then this is freedom. Drag is freedom.

I don't think that the next generation should fear just being who they are rather than confirming to an expectation of what they are meant to be.

I want to show the world that if you want to be a bearded lady you are allowed to do it without being discriminated against.

Drag is really about reminding people that you are more than you think you are - you are more than what it says on your passport.

I wear what I want to wear and appear on stage as myself.

I definitely feel that society sets expectations for transgender people to fit in and makes us feel as if we have to dress a certain way so that we blend in with everyone else. But I believe all transgender individuals should be able to wear whatever they want and not worry about fitting in.

It's worth paying attention to the roles that are sort of dictated to us and that we don't have to fit into those roles. We can be anybody we wanna be.

These are my words; this is their world, a world in which we can wear our gender on our sleeves, unabashedly, as we go about the business of thinking out loud.

I think that the major message in 'Shrek: The Musical' is be who you want to be. I think that it is about being your true self in this world.

I'm a tomboy at heart. I always like to say that I'm an ordinary girl doing extraordinary things.

In my planet, fashion, I'm the only straight man.

It's lame to say that I'm a normal girl, but I think I am.

In my own writing, I tend to be very honest, and my goal is to identify something people think but are afraid to say. That's not the general cultural expectation of women.

You don't have to conform to a very specific aesthetic today, whereas 1950s women definitely had to.

Everyone is their own kind of lesbian. To think there's a certain way to dress or present yourself in the world is just one more stereotype we have to fit into.