Asia Kate Dillon Quotes

I believe in assigned sex but not necessarily gender. Gender is a learned construct that is detrimental to both sexes.

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 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.

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

If you don't know somebody, whether you're inquiring into their sex or their gender, it's invasive.

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

To say that gender is performative is a little different because for something to be performative means that it produces a series of effects. We act and walk and speak and talk in ways that consolidate an impression of being a man or being a woman.

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

If you come from a normal family, you immediately start playing the role of a boy, a girl a man or a woman, but I'm sure you'll agree with me that those are only roles, limited roles, at that.

One is not born a woman, but becomes one.

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.

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

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.

There is more difference within the sexes than between them.

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

We act as if that being of a man or that being of a woman is actually an internal reality or something that is simply true about us, a fact about us, but actually it's a phenomenon that is being produced all the time and reproduced all the time, so to say gender is performative is to say that nobody really is a gender from the start.

No lady is ever a gentleman.

I think a woman gets more if she acts feminine.

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

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

I'm from the generation that had the boys' door and the girls' door when you went to school, and you got in big trouble if you went in the wrong one.

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.

As a kid, you get to the stage where you realise the gender barriers that exist in society and what you're supposed to do and not supposed to do.