Dick Bruna Quotes

It's hard to tell whether the ship or airplane - they're all the same, I'm convinced - is male or female; it may shift back and forth.

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

All genders?' whispered Nudge. 'Aren't there just the two' I shrugged. 'No idea. Maybe they've created others.

Am I a boy or a lady, I don't know which?

You've got your mother in a whirl, she's not sure if your a boy or a girl.

I can have an androgynous quality.

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.

… a hideous hermaphroditical character which has neither the force and firmness for a man, nor the gentleness and sensibility of a woman

I've struggled with gender norms my whole life, always feeling like I wasn't black-and-white; I was in this gray area, and gray areas really scare people because you can't define them.

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

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

The only time it gets weird is which bathroom do I go into sometimes.

I was always a bit boy, a bit girl.

To you I am neither man nor woman. I come before you as an author only.

I don't think about being male or female, I just behave naturally. I think in terms of excellence in science, not gender.

It's hard to tell whether the ship or airplane - they're all the same, I'm convinced - is male or female; it may shift back and forth.

It's hard to tell these days what gender people are. You don't know if they're gay, if they're straight, or Bruce Jenner.

No one's female and male, we all have so many different traits. It's just a lie that these certain traits are male and these certain traits are female.

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.

There is a certain androgyny to my appeal.

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 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 had always been a really peculiar child. My mom would tell you I grew up roughing it with the boys and playing with action figures and toy cars and stuff, but I also had an Easy Bake Oven... I find it amazing that in a really weird way, people are mad that they can't figure out my gender.

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

I am very gender fluid and feel more like I wake up every day sort of gender neutral. I cop a fair bit of flack for going from 'such a babe to such a boy.'