Ruth Bradley Quotes

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

Bodies have a sex, but gender is a thing we made up, like your star sign or nationality. It doesn't really say anything about who you are. The destruction of gender binary would free everybody.

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.

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

I grew up in a commune where no one considered me female, particularly.

I was a regular little boy who also enjoyed things that girls did.

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

I want parents out there to know that it's totally natural for kids to make believe and play games. It does not mean your child is going to be transgendered. And even if it were true, why is it such a horrible thing?

Hedi Slimane told me I was boyish in his eyes. For him femininity and masculinity are the same thing, the difference is not so interesting, he said.

Gender is between your ears and not between your legs.

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.

I think that there's so many versions of femininity, and in terms of gender as a binary construct, that seems to be being dismantled.

I do not feel that some things are masculine and others are feminine.

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

What we really need to look at is gender fluidity and the idea that gender can be customised however you want.

Transgender doesn't need to imply loud.

My definition of gender expands beyond just two genders.

Any kind of gender expression is performance for me, regardless of where it is on the spectrum.

I think people are really starting to rebel against that. And I think there's going to be more and more gray areas. Hopefully that means we'll see more stories with characters that could be interchangeable with men.

Either sex alone is half itself.

There is a certain androgyny to my appeal.

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.

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.

Being a parent of a boy who wants to wear sparkles and grow his hair long - especially when you don't know where it's all going to go - it's hard stuff. I'm not being politically incorrect in acknowledging that, am I?

Hardly nobody gets to live two genders in their life.