Angelica Ross Quotes

Any woman who wishes to smash into the world of men isn't very feminine.

You think that being a girl is degrading, but secretly, you'd love to know what it's like, wouldn't you?

I have a few girlfriends, but nearly all my friends are guys. I don't think I ever wore girl clothes. I wore baggy jeans, baggy T-shirts, sweaters, just to avoid the looks that everyone gives you when you're a young female in the world.

I think a woman gets more if she acts feminine.

I can't write - I can't think like a woman... it's not natural, but I've tried.

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

I think the fallacy is to think that Women's Liberation meant that men and women would become interchangeable. That has not happened, and most men and women would not want it to happen.

Being in drag for three months - I now have an idea of what women go through. At least maybe a little.

One is not born a woman, but becomes one.

Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female - whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male.

I look a little bit like Barbie and talk a little bit like Ken. It's easier for me to sit in the middle of the boys' club than to be surrounded by people concerned about getting their hair and nails done.

Masculine and feminine roles are not biologically fixed but socially constructed.

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.

I was raised to be a girl Michelangelo.

Most men are very attached to the idea of being male, and usually experience a lot of fear and insecurity around the idea of being a man. Most women are very identified with their gender, and also experience a tremendous amount of fear and insecurity.

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.

In my experience, men are not necessarily less sensitive or compassionate than women are, and women are not necessarily any less aggressive or competitive than men are - as a matter of fact, often they are more so!

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

Parenting girls makes you quite gender-conscious - it's almost impossible to fight the power of pink. It's not such a terrible thing to want to be a princess when you're five, but it would be nice if there were some other options.

Clearly, we are not programmed at birth to behave a certain way based on our gender. Instead, we are trained throughout our lives to conform to our gender norms.

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

Growing up, I was not told that there were women's areas of preoccupation or male ones.

Men and women are different: we have different tendencies, skills, and behaviors. This should be accepted and fostered, not demonized. Because the end result is simply more effeminate men and more masculine women. Who wants that?

People try to make women a very specific thing so that we like them.

My parents never told me, 'You're supposed to wear pink,' or 'You're meant to do this because you're a girl.'