Richard M. Weaver Quotes

Either sex alone is half itself.

I want parents out there to know that it's totally natural for kids to make believe and play games. It does not mean your child is going to be transgendered. And even if it were true, why is it such a horrible thing?

I have always believed that we all have male and female within us.

I don't think gender is aesthetically defining for me.

I always find it amazing that people get mad because they can't figure out my gender. Even though my only job here is to create art, I think being a genderless figure... it shakes people. And when that happens, it makes me feel like I'm doing my job.

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

I do not feel that some things are masculine and others are feminine.

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.

In an ideal world, we would be able to just swap characters' genders around because I don't ever wake up in the morning and think to myself, 'Oh I am such a woman today,' because that is just so ridiculous.

What we really need to look at is gender fluidity and the idea that gender can be customised however you want.

I think the world is kind of catching on that gender roles aren't so necessary and becoming a lot less defined and starting to become a lot more about the individual and character of that person.

I feel like there's no such thing as gender.

Any kind of gender expression is performance for me, regardless of where it is on the spectrum.

Masculinity involves feminine qualities, and femininity involves masculine qualities.

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

I support equality. Everyone should feel free to live out the parts of their personality that correspond to the classic male or female image.

Sometimes there are ways to minimize the importance of gender in life, or to confuse gender categories so that they no longer have descriptive power. But other times gender can be very important to us, and some people really love the gender that they have claimed for themselves.

It seems to me that "Gender trouble" will always be important to try and open up our ideas of what gender is. So, I don't know if it's revolutionary, but maybe it still has something to say to those issues.

We all have a cross-gender character: Every woman has a man that they can play, and every man has a woman that they can play.

I wanted to show a normal young girl whose only difference was that she behaved in the way a boy might, without any sense of guilt on a moral or sexual level.

I grew up in a commune where no one considered me female, particularly.

I was a tomboy as a kid - I was skinny and had cropped hair and was often mistaken for a boy - and up until I was about six, I had my own very fluid ideas of gender in that I believed that, somehow, an individual could choose whether or not s/he wanted to be a boy or a girl.

I was a regular little boy who also enjoyed things that girls did.

Masculine and feminine aspects exist in all beings.

When I was born, there was a very isolated idea of what it meant to be a man or a woman, and you belonged to one gender or the other.