Eddie Izzard Quotes

I hate female men.

Hedi was and is still misspelled 'Heidi,' and my perception of genders ended up slightly out of focus from an early age.

I see myself as quite feminine. But many people seem to think differently about that; sometimes people mistake me for a man. In Paris I often hear 'bonjour monsieur'.

A lot of kids are bullied because of their sexual identity or expression. It's often the effeminate boys and the masculine girls, the ones who violate gender norms and expectations, who get bullied.

I've been harassed. I've been stalked. I've had every public pre-transition photo of me compiled alongside my deadname with the purpose of never letting me be my true gender.

There are cis women who are being attacked and called men because they are wearing makeup and because they are too tall, and they might have an Adam's apple. Once cis women start to realize it's not just harmful to trans women, then we'll start to come together more and attack this together. It sucks, but we're all under the patriarchy.

Women should look like women. A piece of cardboard has no sexuality.

Those that think my clothes are androgynous also still believe that women should look like Barbie dolls. That's precisely the problem, the deep-rooted assumptions about what is feminine.

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

Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot.

One out of forty American men wears women's clothing. We've had more than forty presidents. One of these guys has been dancing around the Oval Office in a prom dress.

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

It's my view that gender is culturally formed, but it's also a domain of agency or freedom and that it is most important to resist the violence that is imposed by ideal gender norms, especially against those who are gender different, who are nonconforming in their gender presentation.

It's very hard as a tall woman to remove your deliberately pronounced feminine aspects and look more masculine.

I think once I was in high school - I had boyfriends and stuff like that, but I think when I was younger, I went through a period where I looked like a boy, and people thought I was a boy.

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?

The industry is quite chauvinistic generally. Expectations of women, girls, what they should look like, how they should be, what they should say, what they should wear, how their hair should be, what colour their skin should be.

I'm often mistaken for a man.

Men are just jealous because they can't wear makeup.

When a man gets up to speak, people listen then look. When a woman gets up, people kook; then, if they like what they see, they listen.

When I was a kid, I was always mistaken for a girl.

People think you can't be clever if you have breasts.

For the longest time, I thought I was a boy. I really did. I wore boys' clothes, played tag football.

The trouble with women umpires is that I couldn't argue with one. I'd put my arms around her and give her a little kiss.

Inherent differences between men and women, we have come to appreciate, remain cause for celebration, but not for denigration of the members of either sex or for artificial constraints on an individual’s opportunity.