Andrej Pejic Quotes

I can't write - I can't think like a woman... it's not natural, but I've tried.

Dressing up like a woman does not make me less of a man.

It would be hypocritical of me to use being female in some ways, and diss being female in other ways. It's part of the programme.

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

I have a few girlfriends, but nearly all my friends are guys. I don't think I ever wore girl clothes. I wore baggy jeans, baggy T-shirts, sweaters, just to avoid the looks that everyone gives you when you're a young female in the world.

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.

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.

What I do know is that traditional gender roles are very real and flipping the norm is difficult for even the strongest, funniest, smartest men.

I'm not 'one of the guys.' I don't want to pretend to be one on stage. I'm not going to dress like a guy or carry myself like one.

Almost all the ideas we have about being a man or being a woman are so burdened with pain, anxiety, fear and self-doubt. For many of us, the confusion around this question is excruciating.

Character is made up of a variety of different things. One of those elements is gender.

You should never be put into a mold based on your gender.

The gender question has always obsessed me.

I'm totally fine with myself. It's the other people I run into out there who are so hung up on gender. The way it trips them up is their problem, not mine.

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

I never had an issue with 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.

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

Being perceived as a guy is nothing new or complicated to me. It is what it is.

I know people want me to sort of defend myself, to sit here and be like, 'I'm a boy, but I wear make-up sometimes.' But, you know, to me, it doesn't really matter.

Being in drag for three months - I now have an idea of what women go through. At least maybe a little.

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.

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.

We talked about Tootsie, the idea in Tootsie is that a man becomes a better man for having been a woman.