Gender Presentation Quotes

My first performance poem was about how sometimes I was teased for being manly, or a tomboy or whatever. It was saying how just because I looked a certain way and displayed myself a certain way didn't mean that I wasn't also a feminine human...a woman if you will.

Then there's the in-between, not a lipstick lesbian, not a butch dyke. I think that is what I'd be, a sweatpants lesbian.

The whiskers sticking up from underneath his pancake makeup, and yet he was a beautiful lady.

Drag threatens people because it exposes and mocks identity. Because most people believe that they are what it says they are on their driver's license. But the truth is we are all born naked, and the rest is drag.

Why must she dress that way? I think she's confused about her gender.

In the 18th century, if women wanted to travel and they dressed as a man, people would not look twice. Your clothes said everything. Also there were masters and servants swapping clothes. You could be anything, your clothes told everything!

Make-up? What happened? You look almost female." "Thanks. You look almost straight.

I've still never gotten used to myself in drag.

I'm wary of the word glam because I think that became the all-inclusive term with for any bloke with lipstick on, which is fine, you know, and that's what it is when it comes down to the public level.

Well I loved the idea of playing a girl who dresses up like a dude.

Well I'm not dumb, but I can't understand why she walked like a woman, but talked like a man.

I like that I have a boyish figure, because I love wearing men's suits.

Women should look like women. A piece of cardboard has no sexuality.

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.

These are my words; this is their world, a world in which we can wear our gender on our sleeves, unabashedly, as we go about the business of thinking out loud.

I felt like I had to be conscious of myself as a girl for the first time. I had to be more feminine. I had to look a certain way. And it's something that you want to suffer in silence, but I would go onto movie sets and they would bring out bras that were basically binders, because there were continuity problems between months.

A girl should never disguise the fact that she's a girl. It's a lot easier to convince a man that you're a fascinating female if you look the part.

I wear menswear all the time. I don't do anything to make myself look more feminine. I naturally look and am more feminine.

Missy is really a man. She's a cross dresser. She hangs out with Sammartino. They shave each other's back.

You can't be a full tranny every day of the week that's an exaggerated part of my personality.

People ask me, 'Have you done much drag?' And I say, 'I don't think of it as drag. I'm playing a woman!'

I am a professional transvestite, so I can run about in heels and not fall over.

I'm often mistaken for a man.

There is no original or primary gender a drag imitates, but gender is a kind of imitation for which there is no original.

I'm a tomboy! Even though I look all-girlie and act girlie, in reality at home I am such a tomboy. I like to mess around and hang out with my brothers, that is the most fun for me!