J. K. Simmons Quotes

My real name is Amethyst. It sounds like a stage name. My mom is kind of crazy.

My name, my real name, is Tracy. I always thought I was like a boy named Sue. So I made my friends call me 'Tray.'

Countries are either mothers or fathers, and engender the emotional bristle secretly reserved for either sire.

Parents can make us distrust ourselves. To them, we seem always to be works-in-progress.

I went to football training when I was five because I think my father thought he had two boys.

A lot of my personality was informed by feeling very different in the world I grew up in, feeling that I didn't fully belong, that my parents didn't belong.

I grew up as an only child. I think it might just be that my dad really didn't care that I was a girl. "You're gonna do certain things 'cause I want you to, and that's the way it is."

When I went back home, I was constantly being reminded, I'm an African woman, and so there are certain things I shouldn't do, certain ambitions that I should not entertain. That was a problem for me because I had never thought of myself as an African woman, never thought of myself as a woman to begin with. For me the limit was my capacity, my capability.

A good name will wear out; a bad one may be turned; a nickname lasts forever.

Would it upset men if they found out we weren't different? Are we? Aren't we? Damned if I know.

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

I'm not a woman! Let's make that very clear! Oh I don't know, maybe I am. I am an American woman. Or 65 percent of me is.

Consolation for those moments when you can't tell whether you're the divinest genius or the greatest fool in the world.

It's easy to confuse a woman for a philosophy

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

To be a woman is something so strange, so confusing and so complicated that only a woman could put up with it.

No, Groucho is not my real name. I am breaking it in for a friend.

I had an Indian face, but I never saw it as Indian, in part because in America the Indian was dead. The Indian had been killed in cowboy movies, or was playing bingo in Oklahoma. Also, in my middle-class Mexican family indio was a bad word, one my parents shy away from to this day. That's one of the reasons, of course, why I always insist, in my bratty way, on saying, Soy indio! - "I am an Indian!"

Men and women are not "equal" if "equal" means "exactly the same." Our many puzzlements and indeed unhappinesses come from trying to figure out what the differences really mean, or should mean, or should not mean.

Mercy is not a proper Indian name."..........."Rash Coyote Who Runs With Wolf. We could shorten it to Dinner Woman.

Why must she dress that way? I think she's confused about her gender.

Quit calling me Grey. It makes me sound like I’m a boy. Like Dorian Gray.” “Dorian who?” I sighed. “Just think up something else. Plain old Nora works too, you know.” “Sure thing, Gumdrop.” I grimaced. “I take that back. Let’s stick with Grey.

The problem with gender is that it prescribes how we should be, rather than recognising how we are.

As the mother of a son, I do not accept that alienation from me is necessary for his discovery of himself. As a woman, I will not cooperate in demeaning womanly things so that he can be proud to be a man. I like to think the women in my son's future are counting on me.

I hear so many things about who I am supposed to be I hardly know what to believe. I am willing to tell all, but what Is it? Doubtless all these myths and legends will be straightened out eventually, but It may take years.