Sofia Richie Quotes

I always shopped in the girls' section during elementary school.

Ninety percent of my clothes are women's.

When I was a kid, I was always mistaken for a girl.

I love wearing men's clothing and underwear.

I wear girls' jeans because I've got girl legs.

My own experience of gender has been about a lot of fluidity. In drag, I like to combine aspects of masculinity and femininity and rewrite the rules for those.

I'm not trying to be a girl by putting on a dress - gender is separated by fabric.

I have a lot of characteristics that would normally be present in a guy and then less that would be present in a woman.

Being perceived as a guy is nothing new or complicated to me. It is what it is.

I wanted to show a normal young girl whose only difference was that she behaved in the way a boy might, without any sense of guilt on a moral or sexual level.

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.

As a little kid, I was convinced that I was a guy.

I always felt like the male from the time I was a child. There wasn't much feminine about me.

I always wear something slightly masculine.

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 want to be a guy, but I want to wear a lot of makeup.

When I was really little, it was very clear to me that I felt like a boy, and my friends were all boys.

Sex and gender are such befuddling mysteries even for those of us who are in the mainstream that you'd think we'd be wary of being judgmental. Yet much of society clings to a view that gender is completely binary, when, in fact, there's overwhelming evidence of a continuum.

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.

Doctors and scientists, being part of that two-sex culture, have done everything they can to try to force people who are in-between into one of the two clear types. Intersex people themselves have also generally wanted to fit into one of the two clear categories; most are not interested in being in a 'third' type.

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.

I was a tomboy right from the time I was a kid and loved to be like that. I'd hate all the girlie things. Well my best friends as a kid have been boys. I get along best with the opposite sex. I guess that's the case with most people though!

For the longest time, I thought I was a boy. I really did. I wore boys' clothes, played tag football.

I grew up as a tomboy, so I'm used to being around guys.

I got to L.A. in 2000, when we were coming off the '90s: women looked like men and the men all looked like women.