Marlo Thomas Quotes

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.

I'm not convinced that what are traditionally considered to be male energies or qualities or female energies or qualities really have as much to do with gender as many people think they do.

It would be easier for people to grasp that gender, sex, and sexual orientation are different things if we had as much imagination in real life as we do when we are making our movies.

I may have had the body and emotions of a woman, but I've always had the head of a man. I've lived my life like a man.

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

I hate that femininity in a gay men is a 'stereotype.'

I think we won't be able to understand the operations of trans-phobia, homophobia, if we don't understand how certain kinds of links are forged between gender and sexuality in the minds of those who want masculinity to be absolutely separate from femininity and heterosexuality to be absolutely separate from homosexuality.

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

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.

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.

It's definitely part of it, that the men were having fun and doing the interesting things but also, I don't know, I'm just thinking more about gender and how maybe in some way I am more of a boy than a girl.

It just so happens that some of the things I like are feminine.

We're born man, woman and sexual beings.

In a family of all girls, I was always the 'boy' in my mind - the protector, the masculine one. No one would ever have to worry about me.

I was a tomboy.

I wasn't a masculine kid; I was pretty effeminate.

A lot of people still have the idea that drag goes from one end of the gender spectrum to the other end of the gender spectrum, and they expect drag queens to be masculine out of drag and hyper-feminine in drag. I think that portrays a lot of binary thinking and, ultimately, a lot of misogyny.

If you don't know somebody, whether you're inquiring into their sex or their gender, it's invasive.

I'm quite feminine.

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

I guess all of us have a little bit of both masculinity and femininity, and bridging the gap between those two things is really fertile.

At heart I am a tomboy.

Sexuality is who you want to be with. Gender identity is who you want to be in the world.

I absolutely think it is more acceptable for people who were assigned female at birth to dress in a typically gender non-conforming way. There was a time when people of all genders had long hair and anyone who wanted to wore jewelry - it was more a sign of status than a sign of femininity, per se.

The more people, as you know, are able to be on whatever spectrum of femininity and masculinity they are on at that moment, that opens the door for women to not have to be the opposite of what the supposed traditional male is.