Rain Dove Quotes

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.

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

There is more difference within the sexes than between them.

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

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.

Ah, well, do I wish that we lived in a world where gender didn't figure so prominently? Of course. Do I even think about myself as a woman when I go to make art? Of course not.

I even felt like I liked guys better than women - that men were relevant and women weren't. It took me a while to realize I'd been socialized to have a slighting view of my own gender.

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.

Physical, emotional, psychological and social differences [between the sexes] exist and dare not be disregarded.

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.'

I've given up trying to convince the world about the authenticity of my femininity.

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've never played on my gender.

Women are penalized both for deviating from the masculine norm and for appearing to be masculine. When women try to establish their competence, they are scrutinized for evidence that they lack masculine (instrumental) characteristics as well as for signs that they no longer possess female (expressive) ones. They are taken to fail, in other words, both as a male and as a female.

I don't want to play sex roles any more. I'm tired of being known as the girl with the shape.

So sometime the expectation of the female by a high expectation. Because peoples think that female were weak in term of, like, of the physically and compared to the men.

In my youth there were words you couldn't say in front of a girl; now you can't say 'girl.'

I'm an only child, so I never had sisters to tell me what I should like based on my gender. I liked what the boys were doing and thought: 'Why let them have all the fun?'

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.

In this society, if a man is called a woman, that's the biggest insult he could get. Is that because women are considered something less?

Some boys accepted me, some didn't. And my family had comments made to them. Brazil is still a very macho society, and sports are mainly for boys, so people would say to them: 'What is this girl doing? Why is she always out there in the soccer games with the boys?'