Sara Pascoe Quotes

Some people look gender non-conforming because they want to look that way - they don't want to conform to society's expectations.

The problem with gender is that it prescribes how we should be, rather than recognising how we are.

If you want to do what you want to do, you have to look a certain way.

I'm often uncomfortable with girliness, to be honest.

I was very against pink and purple when I was young, because they were girls' colors. But that was only because I didn't want people to write me off for what I can do. When I got into my 20s, I decided that was stupid.

People try to make women a very specific thing so that we like them.

I'm totally fine with myself. It's the other people I run into out there who are so hung up on gender. The way it trips them up is their problem, not mine.

I've never played on my gender.

I definitely feel that society sets expectations for transgender people to fit in and makes us feel as if we have to dress a certain way so that we blend in with everyone else. But I believe all transgender individuals should be able to wear whatever they want and not worry about fitting in.

I feel that women and men should free themselves up. It took me a while to get over my dysphoria about shopping in the men's section, trying on men's clothes, but when I was thinking about my life and the kind of woman I wanted to be, it was never just this by-the-book feminine thing.

Parents need to be more accepting of who their kids are and less concerned about what society thinks they need to be.

Whether at work, at home or in public, we have been trained to believe that who we are at the core of our being is often unacceptable. As a result, we work diligently to live up to - and sometimes down to - what others have made us out to be, whether or not it is an accurate reflection of who we are.

I am not metrosexual. I am not macho. I am normal. I don't even wear nail paint.

Women spend their lives trying to look good for men. So a woman who feels she's sending the right visual signals is pleased with herself.

I can act like a boy as much as I want, but when I wake up in the morning, I'm still a woman.

I know people want me to sort of defend myself, to sit here and be like, 'I'm a boy, but I wear make-up sometimes.' But, you know, to me, it doesn't really matter.

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?'

I'm definitely more attracted to chaos than to order. The point is, I find the female roles out there very cliche. If we are limited to being only lovers or mothers, we are limiting ourselves.

It's lame to say that I'm a normal girl, but I think I am.

Bras are a ludicrous invention; but if you make bralessness a rule, you're just subjecting yourself to yet another repression.

I do not... look very feminine. Diana, Princess of Wales is feminine... I am... femi-none.

Really, in a way, I took over the male role.

I don't know any women who don't think about what they look like, and I don't know any men who don't think about what women look like.

Gender is probably the most restricting force in American life.

A man must know how to fly in the face of opinion; a woman to submit to it.