Andrew Solomon 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.

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

I don't think gender even exists.

I never get to forget who I am, my gender identity.

Gender doesn't exist in my book.

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.

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.

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

As far as I'm concerned, being any gender is a drag.

I've struggled with gender norms my whole life, always feeling like I wasn't black-and-white; I was in this gray area, and gray areas really scare people because you can't define them.

The gender question has always obsessed me.

I feel like so many people invalidate the experience of transgender girls thinking that they aren't regular girls, but I am a normal girl.

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

I grew up believing I sounded like a boy.

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.

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

We need to overcome the stereotype that genders aren't fluid.

The thought of being a boy makes me cringe. I just couldn't do it.

I wish everything was gender neutral. I wish we weren't separated by boundaries like pink and blue and little things like that. I wish we could choose how we express ourselves without hate.

We've been socialised and told that there is a way to describe people, and that way is by their gender or their sex.

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 wanted to show a normal young girl whose only difference was that she behaved in the way a boy might, without any sense of guilt on a moral or sexual level.

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

We all live in a culture that is continually isolating feminine and masculine aspects, even when they're not related to people.