Asia Kate Dillon Quotes

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

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.

The gender question has always obsessed me.

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.

I've never played on my gender.

I am not an expert on that whole issue of gender.

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

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.

There is more difference within the sexes than between them.

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.

As far as I'm concerned, being any gender is a drag.

I don't see gender as the most significant fact of human existence.

It just so happens that some of the things I like are feminine.

Men are every bit as gendered as women.

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.

Almost all the ideas we have about being a man or being a woman are so burdened with pain, anxiety, fear and self-doubt. For many of us, the confusion around this question is excruciating.

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.

Character is made up of a variety of different things. One of those elements is gender.

I was really raised in a gender-neutral household. I always knew I was a girl, but it never occurred to me that there was a limitation.

I've given up trying to convince the world about the authenticity of my femininity.

You should never be put into a mold based on your gender.

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

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.

Gender doesn't exist in my book.