Weyes Blood Quotes

I feel like I think like a woman because I grew up with my mother and my sister, so I've just been programmed to think like a girl.

This idea that males are physically aggressive and females are not has distinct drawbacks for both sexes.

One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.

One is not born a woman, but becomes one.

Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female - whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male.

Once upon a time, growing up male gave little boys a sense of certainty about the natural order of things. We had short hair, wore pants, and played baseball. Girls had long hair, wore skirts, and, no matter how hard they tried, always threw a baseball just like a girl.

I grew up with a lot of boys. I probably have a lot of testosterone for a woman.

I was raised to be a girl Michelangelo.

I was raised with three bothers, no sisters. I've always been a tomboy.

I grew up with three older brothers, so I'm very much a tomboy in real life.

I grew up around lots of men - my father, my brothers, my uncles - so I wasn't intimidated by them.

I considered myself one of the boys. My brothers didn't spoil me at all, not at all. I was very tomboyish. It wasn't as if I was like a princess or anything like that.

You think that being a girl is degrading, but secretly, you'd love to know what it's like, wouldn't you?

School is very conformist, and one of the very first conforming that goes on in preschool and kindergarten is gender.

I wanted to be a boy when I was young because boys got to do all the good stuff. So I became very aggressive and very competitive at a young age.

My father always defined my gender to my brothers. He'd say, 'This is your sister; you must take care of her.'

Because if you say men and women are the same and if male behaviour is the norm, and women are always expected to act like men, we will never be as good at being men as men are.

When all the girls were getting all made up and getting into all that girl stuff in junior high I was out playing softball or touch football with the guys.

Many differences are rooted in biology and reinforced through culture, so it's important to acknowledge that. Because if you say men and women are the same and if male behaviour is the norm, and women are always expected to act like men, we will never be as good at being men as men are.

I'm saying that the depth of exploration of the male psyche and the female psyche is uneven. I see further, deeper renderings of what it means to be a man.

I look a little bit like Barbie and talk a little bit like Ken. It's easier for me to sit in the middle of the boys' club than to be surrounded by people concerned about getting their hair and nails done.

As a result of 50 years of emancipation, feminine qualities were dying out or being transferred to the males. Pansies of both sexes were everywhere, not yet completely homosexual, but confused not knowing what they were. The result was a herd of unhappy sexual misfits... the women wanting to dominate and the men to be nannied.

When I was born, some of our relatives came to our house and told my mother, 'Don't worry, next time you will have a son.'

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.