Joey Soloway Quotes

I had always been a really peculiar child. My mom would tell you I grew up roughing it with the boys and playing with action figures and toy cars and stuff, but I also had an Easy Bake Oven... I find it amazing that in a really weird way, people are mad that they can't figure out my gender.

I consider myself a boy in a dress.

I'd be happy to be taken as a woman - and that's what I was initially trying to do when I started throwing on dresses and stuff. But that wasn't going to happen because everyone kept calling me sir. So I thought I'd change the method and just start wearing what I wanted to wear.

My own experience of gender has been about a lot of fluidity. In drag, I like to combine aspects of masculinity and femininity and rewrite the rules for those.

Virginia Woolf said that writers must be androgynous. I'll go a step further. You must be bisexual.

A transvestite spends her entire life trying to look as feminine as possible and I have clearly spent mine celebrating my masculinity.

I am very gender fluid and feel more like I wake up every day sort of gender neutral. I cop a fair bit of flack for going from 'such a babe to such a boy.'

I didn't know there were options like gender neutral or gender fluid. I later realized you could be a girl and dress like a guy.

I guess professionally I've left my gender open to artistic interpretation.

I'm naturally androgynous. I don't wear makeup or skirts.

I feel like I'm a boy, but I don't feel like I should've been born with different parts of my body or anything like that. I feel like it's just all in how I dress and how I talk and how I look and feel, and that makes me happy.

I believe gender is a spectrum, and I fall somewhere between Channing Tatum and Winnie the Pooh.

Given the hipness of transsexualism with people like Caitlyn Jenner and Jazz Jennings, there might be a third category, especially among children, and that is fashion.

I was never going to become a beautiful, passable woman, and I was never going to be a man. It's a quandary. But the trans condition is a beautiful mystery; it's one of nature's best ideas.

More and more - especially the younger generation - are functioning outside the binary concept of gender. That's just next-generation stuff.

I was always a bit boy, a bit girl.

Male? Female? It's not always relevant to some people. They are who they are - they might not fit into a specific box.

I was gender-nonconforming in high school in terms of the way I dressed, in terms of the way I cut my hair.

I spent so many years not understanding my own gender identity, not having the language to talk about it, and not feeling safe in many environments to talk about it.

Some days I feel like a girl. Some days I feel like a boy. I don't know which I am.

I always dressed as a man when I was at school. I loved wearing a tie and a shirt, and I was always wearing suits. Annie Lennox was my hero. I was always playing men in high school.

Being pretty... I'm just confused about it. I mean, I love getting my nails done, but I also like dressing like a boy. I think I feel most myself when I'm mixing femininity and masculinity. Like, fifty-fifty.

I quite like androgyny.

I grew up in a commune where no one considered me female, particularly.

I was the kid growing up who would play with G.I. Joes in a pink dress and then run off to play with my Barbies. It doesn't mean that I'm less girly, it just means that I have this other side of me. It's kinda cool to be a little bit of both, I think.