Christine and the Queens Quotes

I am not an expert on that whole issue of gender.

I think we're struggling with trying to redefine various positions at this point in history. To allow freedom for women, freedom for men, freedom from those sharply defined gender roles.

As far as I'm concerned, being any gender is a drag.

I have never been good at doing impressions of women. Which is understandable. There's a gender issue.

Character is made up of a variety of different things. One of those elements is gender.

I've given up trying to convince the world about the authenticity of my femininity.

You should never be put into a mold based on your gender.

I think our society has sort of built this gender binary, and the way we've said it exists does not really exist in nature.

Within my immediate creative community, I would say gender is something that I've always been interested in and always talked about.

I'm of the opinion that gender is a social construct.

I never had an issue with gender.

When gender comes down upon us, male or female, it comes as a restriction.

I felt alien my whole life, but I didn't feel alien because of my gender. Other people made me aware of my gender.

There is more difference within the sexes than between them.

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.

Gender is a way to hide from the simple truth we all tell: 'Hey, I'm here, I have a body.'

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.

I don't see gender as the most significant fact of human existence.

As you get older it's more confusing. Suddenly, there's more pressure to fit in to your assigned gender.

Men are every bit as gendered as women.

I do believe that it's something that we don't talk about, but when there are clearly defined gender roles, it is much simpler. Because you don't have to think, which people apparently don't like to do.

What I do know is that traditional gender roles are very real and flipping the norm is difficult for even the strongest, funniest, smartest men.

Almost all the ideas we have about being a man or being a woman are so burdened with pain, anxiety, fear and self-doubt. For many of us, the confusion around this question is excruciating.

We have been very conditioned by the cultures that we come from and are usually very identified with the particular gender that we happen to be a member of.

I think that people are most comfortable when the world is orderly. I think there's the sense that when you begin questioning basic distinctions, such as the distinction between being male and being female, it represents a threat to the social order.