Sarah Kay Quotes

Being an actress is the sublimation of feminity.

The woman most in need of liberation is the woman in every man and the man in every woman.

To me, writing is a matter of voice. I think like that. The expression I sometimes use to myself is 'actual song.' That what I do is somewhere on the line between speaking to you as I am now and actual song. And the things I love when I say one of those poems to myself - it's a little bit like singing, it's a little bit like speaking.

I'm a woman, so I'm going to be woman as much as I can.

I had no words for these feelings. And then people started using the word Ms. Suddenly, there was this handle with which I could identify myself and understand why I felt so out of whack with the culture around me.

Objectivity is almost a choice you make. As a burlesque performer, I didn't choose to be objectified.

There's so much to becoming a woman.

After feminism, I suddenly realised: not everyone has to live the same way. Imagine that!

I feel that I'm sort of playing me but more feminine, and to me more feminine means smarter.

When I used to model, the job description is 'shut up and pose.' There are people today who would really like me to go back to that old job description and 'just shut up and pose.'

For me, 'Rent' was all about coming out of myself, finding out who I was, learning the power I could have as a performer.

I wish to present myself in front of the camera, each time under the features of a different woman. I would like to live and apprehend the problems, the conflicts, the feelings and the impulses of women radically different from me.

Me in drag is kind of scary, actually. It's frightening. I actually look pretty good.

Unless we tell stories about ourselves, which is all that theater is, we're in deep trouble.

I've kind of stepped into my femininity.

Not even girls want to be girls so long as our feminine archetype lacks force, strength, and power.

I'm a woman now.

I was brought up in a house full of women; the first time I realised no one was interrupting me was when I was on stage - that's probably the subconscious reason I became an actor.

I actually think 'Sex and the City' helped share how complicated it all is, to be a wife, a mother, and working, and a sexual being.

When I was in my 20s, I wanted to be tough. I discovered that I didn't want to be the woman I was raised to be - a good, traditional wife. When I went out in the world to find a husband, I found that husbands weren't ready to accept the kind of woman I was going to be.

I knew I could never be an actor as a man. It just doesn't work, you know? And so when I was doing drag, I realized I could do that kind of stuff, and then when I was transitioning, I kind of gave up on the whole thing because I didn't think that this time would ever come, you know?

If you've ever been to a poetry slam, you know that the highest scoring emotion is self-righteous indignation: how dare you judge me. So in that way, the poem, 'What Teachers Make,' is an absolutely formulaic slam poem designed to allow me to get up on my soap box and say, 'Let me tell you what really makes me angry.'

I love drag queens... they perform me better than I ever could myself.

My music touches on things I am concerned with in my own life - the idea of a woman's role in society, sexuality, desire, monogamy, fantasy and glamour. That's what keeps me alive, and if I couldn't keep creating that, I'd fall into a bit of heap.

You can still be strong and be feminine.