Nadezhda Tolokonnikova Quotes

I do not feel that some things are masculine and others are feminine.

I think the world is kind of catching on that gender roles aren't so necessary and becoming a lot less defined and starting to become a lot more about the individual and character of that person.

Some people look gender non-conforming because they want to look that way - they don't want to conform to society's expectations.

I'm really proud that MTV has joined the conversation about breaking down binaries.

I absolutely think it is more acceptable for people who were assigned female at birth to dress in a typically gender non-conforming way. There was a time when people of all genders had long hair and anyone who wanted to wore jewelry - it was more a sign of status than a sign of femininity, per se.

Masculinity involves feminine qualities, and femininity involves masculine qualities.

And dare love that, and say so too, And forget the He and She.

I don't think about being male or female, I just behave naturally. I think in terms of excellence in science, not gender.

The more people, as you know, are able to be on whatever spectrum of femininity and masculinity they are on at that moment, that opens the door for women to not have to be the opposite of what the supposed traditional male is.

I never saw a ­distinction between a man and a woman. My ­grandparents and my mother were great examples of men and women, and they taught me ­equality. So I would fight with boys and wear my cousin's clothes. I would do whatever I wanted, and that's where I still stand today.

Either sex alone is half itself.

I was a tomboy as a kid - I was skinny and had cropped hair and was often mistaken for a boy - and up until I was about six, I had my own very fluid ideas of gender in that I believed that, somehow, an individual could choose whether or not s/he wanted to be a boy or a girl.

Masculine and feminine aspects exist in all beings.

Being a parent of a boy who wants to wear sparkles and grow his hair long - especially when you don't know where it's all going to go - it's hard stuff. I'm not being politically incorrect in acknowledging that, am I?

I want parents out there to know that it's totally natural for kids to make believe and play games. It does not mean your child is going to be transgendered. And even if it were true, why is it such a horrible thing?

Hardly nobody gets to live two genders in their life.

Gender is between your ears and not between your legs.

A gender-equal society would be one where the word 'gender' does not exist: where everyone can be themselves.

I have always believed that we all have male and female within us.

I don't think gender is aesthetically defining for me.

I always find it amazing that people get mad because they can't figure out my gender. Even though my only job here is to create art, I think being a genderless figure... it shakes people. And when that happens, it makes me feel like I'm doing my job.

To recommend that women become identical to men, would be simple reversal, and would defeat the whole point of androgyny, and for that matter, feminism: in both, the whole point is choice.

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.

If gender is on a spectrum, where one finds oneself is completely unique.