Mahira Khan Quotes

I've never played on my gender.

I'm an only child, so I never had sisters to tell me what I should like based on my gender. I liked what the boys were doing and thought: 'Why let them have all the fun?'

Ah, well, do I wish that we lived in a world where gender didn't figure so prominently? Of course. Do I even think about myself as a woman when I go to make art? Of course not.

Playing girls is cool, but its a lot more fun playing boys.

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.

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

My parents never told me, 'You're supposed to wear pink,' or 'You're meant to do this because you're a girl.'

Don't think of your gender as a handicap.

I've always seen the world as very gender-neutral.

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

People put stock in someone being in a 'girl group,' but we don't say that a band is a 'man group.'

I'm known for being annoyingly gender-focused. It's always been my platform.

You think that being a girl is degrading, but secretly, you'd love to know what it's like, wouldn't you?

Being in drag for three months - I now have an idea of what women go through. At least maybe a little.

School is very conformist, and one of the very first conforming that goes on in preschool and kindergarten is gender.

We all live in a culture that is continually isolating feminine and masculine aspects, even when they're not related to people.

When you write, you are not either sex. But when you're read you are definitely gendered.

No one knows 'men' as such, any more than anyone knows 'women,' and if they do generalise they're probably trying to hide their own ignorance. You might know one 'man,' yes, or even lots of individual 'men'.

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.

I do think the attempt to raise consciousness has succeeded. People are very aware of gender concerns now.

The business of fiction is the study of the human condition, and gender is something that many humans are obsessed with, thus making it rather difficult to ignore when studying the human condition!

There is more difference within the sexes than between them.

Masculine and feminine roles are not biologically fixed but socially constructed.

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've never thought in terms of 'men do this' and 'women do that.'