Jami Attenberg Quotes

I've never wanted to be a woman playing a guy; I love being a woman.

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

I don't know what I am if I'm not a woman.

All my life I've always been so ashamed of being feminine.

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.

Dressing up like a woman does not make me less of a man.

I basically lived like a guy for, certainly, the first decade of my career, and I just wanted to blend in.

I am like a woman. I have a woman inside me.

I am not metrosexual. I am not macho. I am normal. I don't even wear nail paint.

I was always just so feminine. I don't think anyone who ever met me would describe me as a man.

As someone who has always felt at times pretty genderless because of my size, it interests me to challenge ideas of prejudice and femininity, and what it is to be a woman.

I've never felt stigmatized in my profession, nor have I allowed myself to. I don't feel either male or female, I feel I am just me, and I should be able to do whatever I like.

If you feel inside you are a woman, be a woman - no one can take that away from you, man. No one can make that feeling go away. If that's what you need to do to be complete, then no one has the right to tell you you can't do that.

I'm often uncomfortable with girliness, to be honest.

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.

My name, my real name, is Tracy. I always thought I was like a boy named Sue. So I made my friends call me 'Tray.'

I'm not afraid of my femininity and I'm not afraid of my sexuality.

It's definitely part of it, that the men were having fun and doing the interesting things but also, I don't know, I'm just thinking more about gender and how maybe in some way I am more of a boy than a girl.

I am normally the manly-ish girl on the planet.

When I was a little girl - well, like, a teenager - I wanted to be Sam Jackson. I always wanted to be men.

I'm not 'one of the guys.' I don't want to pretend to be one on stage. I'm not going to dress like a guy or carry myself like one.

I'm not convinced that what are traditionally considered to be male energies or qualities or female energies or qualities really have as much to do with gender as many people think they do.

I think of my gender as a part of my complex humanity.

Mentors of mine were under a big pressure to minimize their femininity to make it. I'm not going to do that. That takes away my power. I'm not going to compromise who I am.

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