George R. R. Martin Quotes

I originally thought I'd grow up to be a woman. I didn't question that when I was little.

What is masculine and what is feminine, anyway?

Gender fluidity is not really feeling like you're at one end of the spectrum or the other. For the most part, I definitely don't identify as any gender. I'm not a guy; I don't really feel like a woman, but obviously I was born one. So, I'm somewhere in the middle, which - in my perfect imagination - is like having the best of both sexes.

I don't have the panic I used to have, meeting people who are androgynous, but when you meet someone whose identity is unclear, that throws your own identity into flux because the way we treat each other is very gendered.

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

When I was a little girl - well, like, a teenager - I wanted to be Sam Jackson. I always wanted to be men.

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

For a long time after childhood ended and before I expressed my femininity through androgyny, I really didn't like looking in the mirror much because I just felt like I wasn't attractive.

I would not want to play a girl who masquerades as a boy for the rest of my life.

I never get to forget who I am, my gender identity.

I don't know what I am if I'm not a woman.

I have a lot of stories about being mistaken for a guy.

I grew up believing I sounded like a boy.

I've always known exactly who I am. I was a girl trapped in a boy's body.

I was never going to become a beautiful, passable woman, and I was never going to be a man. It's a quandary. But the trans condition is a beautiful mystery; it's one of nature's best ideas.

The thought of being a boy makes me cringe. I just couldn't do it.

For my entire life, I've wrestled with my gender identity.

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

Me feeling ambiguous about my gender identity has been a lifelong feeling, certainly.

What is male and what is female? I don't always feel female.

Some days I feel like a girl. Some days I feel like a boy. I don't know which I am.

I think it's really difficult for folks that aren't transgender to really wrap their mind around the feeling of having a gender identity that differs from their sex assigned at birth. But for me, it felt like a constant feeling of homesickness.

My first performance poem was about how sometimes I was teased for being manly, or a tomboy or whatever. It was saying how just because I looked a certain way and displayed myself a certain way didn't mean that I wasn't also a feminine human...a woman if you will.

"Gender trouble" is old. I mean, you know, in New York, it is old. I mean it's sweet. I mean people are really kind about it but it's like a former love affair you had and you're done.