Laura Jane Grace Quotes

I've never played on my 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.

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.

As far as I'm concerned, being any gender is a drag.

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

I never get to forget who I am, my gender identity.

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 never feel confined by gender, by labels, by expectations, by stereotypes. I'm free to be myself.

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

I don't really embrace femininity.

I can act like a boy as much as I want, but when I wake up in the morning, I'm still a woman.

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.

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?'

I was always just so feminine. I don't think anyone who ever met me would describe me as a man.

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

It's my view that gender is culturally formed, but it's also a domain of agency or freedom and that it is most important to resist the violence that is imposed by ideal gender norms, especially against those who are gender different, who are nonconforming in their gender presentation.

I've never felt stigmatized in my profession, nor have I allowed myself to. I don't feel either male or female, I feel I am just me, and I should be able to do whatever I like.

I think we're struggling with trying to redefine various positions at this point in history. To allow freedom for women, freedom for men, freedom from those sharply defined gender roles.

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.

I know how it feels to be a woman because I am a woman. And I won't be classified as just a man.

There is more difference within the sexes than between them.

Gender is a way to hide from the simple truth we all tell: 'Hey, I'm here, I have a body.'

I don't see gender as the most significant fact of human existence.

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.