Elizabeth Hand Quotes

Gender is between your ears and not between your legs.

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.

I always find it amazing that people get mad because they can't figure out my gender. Even though my only job here is to create art, I think being a genderless figure... it shakes people. And when that happens, it makes me feel like I'm doing my job.

Masculinity involves feminine qualities, and femininity involves masculine qualities.

We all have a cross-gender character: Every woman has a man that they can play, and every man has a woman that they can play.

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.

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

Most of my friends are women - I quite fancied being a woman in a way.

I have always believed that we all have male and female within us.

I don't think gender is aesthetically defining for me.

I think of my gender as a part of my complex humanity.

What interested me, was that as we age, those seemingly unbreakable barriers that define us, our gender, they begin to crack, to blur; they're not absolutes anymore.

I don't know what I am if I'm not a woman.

I'm really proud that MTV has joined the conversation about breaking down binaries.

I think the world is kind of catching on that gender roles aren't so necessary and becoming a lot less defined and starting to become a lot more about the individual and character of that person.

When I was five, long before I understood what the word 'gender' meant, I would always tell my mother that I wished I were a girl.

I was a weird but definite kid, and there were essentially no gender roles for me to fit into.

I guess all of us have a little bit of both masculinity and femininity, and bridging the gap between those two things is really fertile.

I feel like there's no such thing as gender.

The gender thing doesn't exist; it's a social construct you don't have to fit into.

I absolutely think it is more acceptable for people who were assigned female at birth to dress in a typically gender non-conforming way. There was a time when people of all genders had long hair and anyone who wanted to wore jewelry - it was more a sign of status than a sign of femininity, per se.

I had always been a tomboy - I still am, at heart.

People who don't have gender dysphoria aren't going to catch it by watching me dance on television.

I always felt like the male from the time I was a child. There wasn't much feminine about me.

I'm in favour of hipster androgyny: Any trend that permits men to rebel against strict gender rules of appearance is going to make the world a more expressive and sensitive place for all of us.