Daya Quotes

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.

No one knows 'men' as such, any more than anyone knows 'women,' and if they do generalise they're probably trying to hide their own ignorance. You might know one 'man,' yes, or even lots of individual 'men'.

In the end, I do think it's insulting to men and women to insist that they fit a certain profile. I never understood that.

There is more difference within the sexes than between them.

I'd like to get to the point where I can be just as mediocre as a man.

If I were a guy, it would be, you know, just a different set of problems I have to carry along.

What works for a man, still does not work for a woman - both in terms of how they see themselves and how we see them.

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

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.

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

We are people, individuals comprising a variety of sexes, races, shifting sexualities and all the rest of it. Every convention that tries to reinforce this difference is a step back. Notions of gender pointlessly separate men from women, but also mothers from daughters and fathers from sons.

I don't think I could keep my position as a well-standing man in the world if I thought there were roles for men and women.

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

I think our whole family just never limited ourselves to what anybody expected of us based on our gender. I never grew up that way.

The gender question has always obsessed me.

I find when I'm perceived as male in society, there is an enormous amount of pressure, but it comes with respect, so it's a balance.

I'm of the opinion that gender is a social construct.

I've never played on my gender.

I'm saying the excessive focus on what gender a person is, rather than what they do, does a disservice to women.

I don't see gender when I look at the world.

I never had an issue with gender.

I've always seen the world as very gender-neutral.

The demands of having to be 'masculine' are as damaging to men as the demands of having to be 'feminine' are to women. I wish we could all agree just to wash it all away. Begin again.

One of the main problems of our time is that men are deprived of their human qualities that are wrongly called feminine, and women are deprived of their human qualities that are wrongly called masculine.

All sorts of articles and letters appear in the papers about women. Profound questions are raised concerning them. Should they smoke? Should they work? Vote? Marry? Exist? Are not their skirts too short, or their sleeves? Have they a sense of humor, of honor, of direction? Are spinsters superfluous? But how seldom similar inquiries are propounded about men.