John Hawkes Quotes

It's hard to tell whether the ship or airplane - they're all the same, I'm convinced - is male or female; it may shift back and forth.

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

I do say gender fluid, because I experience my gender identity as being fluid because it's on a spectrum.

the term 'androgyny' ... defines a condition under which the characteristics of the sexes, and the human impulses expressed by men and women, are not rigidly assigned. Androgyny seeks to liberate the individual from the confines of the appropriate.

They call me the confuser. Is he a man... is he a woman? Ooh, I'm not sure if I mind.

Well I'm not dumb, but I can't understand why she walked like a woman, but talked like a man.

As a concept [androgyny] raise[s] anxiety levels by conjuring up a conformist, unisex vision, the very opposite of the individuality and uniqueness that feminism actually has in mind.

All genders?' whispered Nudge. 'Aren't there just the two' I shrugged. 'No idea. Maybe they've created others.

Androgyny suggests a spirit of reconciliation between the sexes; it suggests, further, a full range of experience…it suggests a spectrum upon which human beings choose their places without regard to propriety or custom.

Gender fluidity is not really feeling like you're at one end of the spectrum or the other. For the most part, I definitely don't identify as any gender. I'm not a guy; I don't really feel like a woman, but obviously I was born one. So, I'm somewhere in the middle, which - in my perfect imagination - is like having the best of both sexes.

I can have an androgynous quality.

Right at the beginning, I didn't know if Miffy was a boy or girl.

I was always into very androgynous things. Guys, girls... I'm into androgyny in general.

… a hideous hermaphroditical character which has neither the force and firmness for a man, nor the gentleness and sensibility of a woman

If gender is on a spectrum, where one finds oneself is completely unique.

I don't think I look like a boy, but I don't think androgyny is such a bad thing.

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.

It's not about living my life as a boy or a girl - but I'm also not trans - it's just that one day, you wake up feeling masculine, and one day, you wake up feeling feminine. The flickering in between those two states is what's most fertile for me.

I was always a bit boy, a bit girl.

Gender fluidity is not really feeling like you're at one end of the spectrum or the other.

And dare love that, and say so too, And forget the He and She.

Androgyny suggests a spirit of reconciliation between the sexes.

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

An androgynous mind was not a male mind. It was a mind attuned to the full range of human experience, including the invisible lives of women.