Raquel Welch Quotes

Male and female represent the two sides of the great radical dualism. But in fact they are perpetually passing into one another. Fluid hardens to solid, solid rushes to fluid. There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman.

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.

The world we live in is made up of polar opposites, black/white, male/female, night/day, and a human being who possesses both masculine and feminine – vulnerability and strength – is intriguing to us, whether they be a singer or actor or dancer, intrigues us, because THAT Is who we really are.

Masculine and feminine aspects exist in all beings.

I think we all have light and dark inside us.

I do believe as human beings we are a great mass of contradictions.

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.

Everything about me is a contradiction, and so is everything about everybody else. We are made out of oppositions; we live between two poles. There's a philistine and an aesthete in all of us, and a murderer and a saint. You don't reconcile the poles. You just recognize them.

I think that there's so many versions of femininity, and in terms of gender as a binary construct, that seems to be being dismantled.

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.

Sharp and mild, dull and keen, well known and strange, dirty and clean, where both the fool and wise are seen: All this am I, have ever been, - in me dove, snake and swine convene!

I love that contradiction of being feminine but playing in the boys' treehouse. My whole life's been like that.

Well, there's a little bit of man in every woman and a little bit of woman in every man.

I am like a woman. I have a woman inside me.

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.

Nobody's all good or bad, and nobody's all light or dark. Every human being has so many different aspects and facets to them. And there can be something noble and something really dark and dangerous going on in a person all at the same time.

Everyone has a little bit of Howard and Chad in them. I think there's Christine in all men as well.

If I were God, I would just be up there scratching my head, thinking, 'What the hell am I supposed to do with this?' For everyone helping an old lady across the street, there's someone else bludgeoning a person to death. And sometimes they're the same. How can He separate us all out?

I identify with women more than men. I guess I have a strong feminine side.

I think everybody has a good and bad side.

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.

What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.

I'm full of contradictions.

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.

Of course, we're all a mass of contradictions.