Agnes Smedley Quotes

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 identify with women more than men. I guess I have a strong feminine side.

I do feel like I'm a tomboy at heart, so I have an easy time working with guys.

I don't believe in categorising a gender, as it makes for discord. People always say, 'That's what men are like' or, 'That's what women do'; I don't really feel that at all. I think that's because I have two fathers, three brothers, a husband and two sons. I'm surrounded by maleness, and I couldn't possibly summarise them into a type.

Nothing is either all masculine or all feminine except having sex.

What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.

Men are every bit as gendered as women.

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

What I do know is that traditional gender roles are very real and flipping the norm is difficult for even the strongest, funniest, smartest men.

I had always been a tomboy - I still am, at heart.

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

I hate men who are in touch with their feminine side.

Men are not supposed to be mysterious. That's what you say about women. But I think men can have a little of it, too.

Basically I'm trying to make men more sensitive and women stronger.

I'm in favour of hipster androgyny: Any trend that permits men to rebel against strict gender rules of appearance is going to make the world a more expressive and sensitive place for all of us.

I was a regular little boy who also enjoyed things that girls did.

I have no objection to a man being a man, however masculine that may be.

When I was born, there was a very isolated idea of what it meant to be a man or a woman, and you belonged to one gender or the other.

I hate female men.

We talked about Tootsie, the idea in Tootsie is that a man becomes a better man for having been a woman.

As societies continue to loosen their standards regarding what is appropriate female and male behavior, I think we are going to realize we have not only underestimated women, but also men.

As a result of 50 years of emancipation, feminine qualities were dying out or being transferred to the males. Pansies of both sexes were everywhere, not yet completely homosexual, but confused not knowing what they were. The result was a herd of unhappy sexual misfits... the women wanting to dominate and the men to be nannied.

What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.

In the face of patriarchy, it is a brave act indeed for both men and women to embrace, rather than shame or attempt to eradicate, the feminine.

I'm more androgynous, because men are supposed to be more spatial, women more literal - I'm a tomboy.