Rain Dove Quotes

I felt alien my whole life, but I didn't feel alien because of my gender. Other people made me aware of my gender.

I think we're struggling with trying to redefine various positions at this point in history. To allow freedom for women, freedom for men, freedom from those sharply defined gender roles.

There is more difference within the sexes than between them.

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.

As far as I'm concerned, being any gender is a drag.

I don't see gender as the most significant fact of human existence.

Men are every bit as gendered as women.

I do believe that it's something that we don't talk about, but when there are clearly defined gender roles, it is much simpler. Because you don't have to think, which people apparently don't like to do.

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.

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.

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

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

The gender question has always obsessed me.

I think our society has sort of built this gender binary, and the way we've said it exists does not really exist in nature.

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.

Within my immediate creative community, I would say gender is something that I've always been interested in and always talked about.

I'm of the opinion that gender is a social construct.

I've never played on my gender.

I don't see gender when I look at the world.

I never had an issue with gender.

I've always seen the world as very gender-neutral.

I am not an expert on that whole issue of gender.

When gender comes down upon us, male or female, it comes as a restriction.

I do think there is a sort of natural balance in nature between men and women, and that it's being thrown off-balance by the social and economic inequities between men and women.

The notion that somehow women are wildly different infuriates me.