Natasha Henstridge Quotes

I grew up as a tomboy, so I'm used to being around guys.

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.

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.

Mum is the girliest of them all, but she ended up with me, the tomboy.

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.

I have a lot of characteristics that would normally be present in a guy and then less that would be present in a woman.

I was a tomboy and most of my close friends were male.

I have a few girlfriends, but nearly all my friends are guys. I don't think I ever wore girl clothes. I wore baggy jeans, baggy T-shirts, sweaters, just to avoid the looks that everyone gives you when you're a young female in the world.

I was a tomboy as a kid - I was skinny and had cropped hair and was often mistaken for a boy - and up until I was about six, I had my own very fluid ideas of gender in that I believed that, somehow, an individual could choose whether or not s/he wanted to be a boy or a girl.

What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.

I'm more androgynous, because men are supposed to be more spatial, women more literal - I'm a tomboy.

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.

I have never been a girlie girl and have always been a boys' girl with an equal amount of friends who were boys and girls.

I'm the tomboy so I got to be a little butch.

I see myself as quite feminine. But many people seem to think differently about that; sometimes people mistake me for a man. In Paris I often hear 'bonjour monsieur'.

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 wasn't like a girly girl. I was a tomboy.

Nothing is either all masculine or all feminine except having sex.

It's definitely part of it, that the men were having fun and doing the interesting things but also, I don't know, I'm just thinking more about gender and how maybe in some way I am more of a boy than a girl.

What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.

It just so happens that some of the things I like are feminine.

I was very much a tomboy. I just couldn't do the pink ballet tutus.

I'm not convinced that what are traditionally considered to be male energies or qualities or female energies or qualities really have as much to do with gender as many people think they do.

I was a tomboy.