Bradley Cooper Quotes

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.

I think once I was in high school - I had boyfriends and stuff like that, but I think when I was younger, I went through a period where I looked like a boy, and people thought I was a boy.

I see myself as quite feminine. But many people seem to think differently about that; sometimes people mistake me for a man. In Paris I often hear 'bonjour monsieur'.

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 never get to forget who I am, my gender identity.

I don't understand when you say I'm a man or I have a deep voice. I know I'm a female, so there's no question for me.

I grew up believing I sounded like a boy.

We need to overcome the stereotype that genders aren't fluid.

When I was five, long before I understood what the word 'gender' meant, I would always tell my mother that I wished I were a girl.

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.

It's my view that gender is culturally formed, but it's also a domain of agency or freedom and that it is most important to resist the violence that is imposed by ideal gender norms, especially against those who are gender different, who are nonconforming in their gender presentation.

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.

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.

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

Hedi was and is still misspelled 'Heidi,' and my perception of genders ended up slightly out of focus from an early age.

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.

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

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

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.