Virginia Woolf Quotes

A man is attractive when he is slightly disturbing like a woman, a woman when she's a little disturbing like a man.

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

Male and female represent the two sides of the great radical dualism. But in fact they are perpetually passing into one another. Fluid hardens to solid, solid rushes to fluid. There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman.

I was a tomboy, not a girlie girl.

I go feminine, I go masculine. I am both, actually. I think the male side is a bit stronger in me, and I have to tone it down sometimes. I'm not like a normal woman, that's for sure.

I don't feel like a very feminine woman sometimes. I feel manly. When I was in my twenties I would say I was a masculine girl and now I realise the whole idea of femaleness is a construct. I'm a boyish girl, who talks over people and I do a boyish job.

I guess all of us have a little bit of both masculinity and femininity, and bridging the gap between those two things is really fertile.

Well, there's a little bit of man in every woman and a little bit of woman in every man.

I had always been a tomboy - I still am, at heart.

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

I'm feminine, but I wouldn't say that I'm girly in any way at all.

I identify with women more than men. I guess I have a strong feminine side.

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.

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

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

I've always wanted to be a man for a day.

I was a tomboy.

I believe gender is a spectrum, and I fall somewhere between Channing Tatum and Winnie the Pooh.

What was so interesting about the glam era was that it was about bisexuality and breaking down the boundaries between gays and straights, breaking down the boundaries between masculinity and femininity with this androgyny thing.

I have no hips, and I feel like my body's like a teenage boy's. But I can have the hair long, put on makeup, wear a dress, and do the exact opposite as well.

A lot of people still have the idea that drag goes from one end of the gender spectrum to the other end of the gender spectrum, and they expect drag queens to be masculine out of drag and hyper-feminine in drag. I think that portrays a lot of binary thinking and, ultimately, a lot of misogyny.

No one has ever seen me as feminine.

At heart I am a tomboy.

The real female should be partly male and the real male should be partly female anyway.

I am not metrosexual. I am not macho. I am normal. I don't even wear nail paint.