Valerie Solanas Quotes

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.

Once upon a time, growing up male gave little boys a sense of certainty about the natural order of things. We had short hair, wore pants, and played baseball. Girls had long hair, wore skirts, and, no matter how hard they tried, always threw a baseball just like a girl.

A lot of kids are bullied because of their sexual identity or expression. It's often the effeminate boys and the masculine girls, the ones who violate gender norms and expectations, who get bullied.

Are you woman enough to be my man?

A man who reads effeminate may well be consistently heterosexual, and another one might be gay. We can't read sexuality off of gender.

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.

I don't burn any calories trying to be masculine; I just happen to be from that world.

Nothing is either all masculine or all feminine except having sex.

I kind of dated a woman-ish, but there's just something about a man that's just masculine, and just there's things that women don't have that men do.

I'm not looking for a boyish girl. I'm looking for a boy. And I'm not looking for a girlish boy either.

By the way, only a real man can accept his feminine side." "I don't know who fed you that line of garbage, but I can promise she's laughing at you right now.

I'm trying to illuminate how perilously narrow we draw the concepts of masculinity and sexuality in our male culture.

I had always been a tomboy - I still am, at heart.

I hate men who are in touch with their feminine side.

Just because I'm in favor of gay rights doesn't mean that I'm gay or doesn't mean I'm some kind of 'sissy' or something. That's the language that you hear in locker rooms.

I was always just so feminine. I don't think anyone who ever met me would describe me as a man.

I'm feminine, but I wouldn't say that I'm girly in any way at all.

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

I have no objection to a man being a man, however masculine that may be.

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 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.

As a result of 50 years of emancipation, feminine qualities were dying out or being transferred to the males. Pansies of both sexes were everywhere, not yet completely homosexual, but confused not knowing what they were. The result was a herd of unhappy sexual misfits... the women wanting to dominate and the men to be nannied.

I'm more androgynous, because men are supposed to be more spatial, women more literal - I'm a tomboy.

I don't think any gay dude is gangsta, period.