Rhianna Pratchett Quotes

Gender is probably the most restricting force in American life.

Masculine and feminine roles are not biologically fixed but socially constructed.

I do believe that it's something that we don't talk about, but when there are clearly defined gender roles, it is much simpler. Because you don't have to think, which people apparently don't like to do.

What I do know is that traditional gender roles are very real and flipping the norm is difficult for even the strongest, funniest, smartest men.

Playing girls is cool, but its a lot more fun playing boys.

Feminism isn't about hating men. It's about challenging the absurd gender distinctions that boys and girls learn from childhood and carry into their adult lives.

I can't write - I can't think like a woman... it's not natural, but I've tried.

Even in 'Victor/Victoria,' there was talk about what it means to be a woman, what it means to be a man. You didn't get that in the old days, in 'Charley's Aunt' or 'Some Like It Hot.'

Growing up, I was not told that there were women's areas of preoccupation or male ones.

Men and women are different: we have different tendencies, skills, and behaviors. This should be accepted and fostered, not demonized. Because the end result is simply more effeminate men and more masculine women. Who wants that?

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'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.

Why categorise crime as a gender issue? Why should a man or woman be more inclined to believe in certain basic values?

I'm of the opinion that gender is a social construct.

I've never played on my gender.

Don't think of your gender as a handicap.

Often, our laws and policies reflect patriarchal biases that can trap men in stereotypes - for example, the idea of guarding the modesty of a woman serves neither men nor women nor any other gender - instead, it comes from the same strong patriarchal framework that we need to confront and reject.

I always used to play with the boys and loved it. You never asked yourself the question if there should be a difference between a boy or a girl.

We cannot base our judgment on binaries such as a person's gender.

I felt alien my whole life, but I didn't feel alien because of my gender. Other people made me aware of my gender.

You think that being a girl is degrading, but secretly, you'd love to know what it's like, wouldn't you?

Being in drag for three months - I now have an idea of what women go through. At least maybe a little.

School is very conformist, and one of the very first conforming that goes on in preschool and kindergarten is gender.

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

When you write, you are not either sex. But when you're read you are definitely gendered.