Marta da Silva Quotes

When I first started designing, all women were dressed like men, and I said, 'Hey, guys, let's be women, put the two together - it's not either/or. Let's celebrate our bodies. Our bodies are different.'

For so many years women have reached out to drag entertainers asking for help or advice with their style, makeup or they just want to be our friends.

Honestly, I like everything, boyish girls, girlish boys, the heavy and the skinny.

I'm comfortable with my femininity, and I don't try to change what I look like just because I'm reporting on football at the end of the night.

If you wear short skirts you get your femininity back.

Not for models. SuicideGirls is a mystery to me because I thought only women ran the site.

Everything that feminism stands for is everything American, white, red and blue democratic. It is all the same stuff. So, I am boggled that I should have to give up this term that encapsulates what I want for my children, for my world, culture, brothers and sister because someone else thinks it means I don't shave my armpits.

I think a woman's body is so much more sensual than a man's. I'm not saying strip off all your clothes, but there are certain photos I like people taking of me, where I'm comfortable. As long as it's tasteful, why not?

I believe all woman look good in dresses; is that a crime?

I am a cisgender woman who has always had a lot of female friends. While many of us have traits in common, none of us will ever be exactly the same. So it's enormously important to me that my female characters be people, and be allowed to be whatever they need to be.

I hope that people look at Brooklyn as kind of a drag utopia, because that's what it's been in my experience - all genders and bodies and ages doing drag.

The way I've always looked at drag has been a little bit different maybe than other people because the drag community that I started doing drag in is full of trans people and women and people of various educational backgrounds, of different ages.

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.

I have a lot of female fans, and I feel like in this day and age, as a drag queen who is a female impersonator, I need to show my love and respect to all those female fans out there, especially my young ones who are learning about how to love themselves and love who they are in every way.

It's important to have transgender representation because we represent the forthcoming generation, and their new perception on the standard of beauty - which I believe is being true to yourself, loving yourself and others.

I think it's really important for all young girls to see themselves represented in fashion so they don't feel alone in the world.

Somebody's sexual preference is, like, who cares?

To me, being a woman in 2016 is allowing myself to contain multitudes. Looking at who's given the space to do so and why.

I, like most women, I dress for other women, I think. If I was going to dress for men, I think in general I would be just wearing, like, a fitted black T-shirt and tight jeans every day.

I am like a woman. I have a woman inside me.

The majority of women in America look like me.

Just because I haven't yet had any project surgery, I'm not going to knock it, because I think women have the right to do whatever they want to their bodies that make them feel good about themselves.

Many, many times I find that whatever is looking good on the screen doesn't always look or feel good on the body. So who do we design for - do we design for the screen, or do we design for women?

After feminism, I suddenly realised: not everyone has to live the same way. Imagine that!

I have a 6-year-old niece who doesn't look like the majority of girls on the covers of magazines. I hope that by the time she's 16, the world will have changed.