Gender Construction Quotes

One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.

One is not born a woman, but becomes one.

There is no gender identity behind the expressions of gender... identity is performatively constituted by the very 'expressions' that are said to be its results.

... that gender is a choice, or that gender is a role, or that gender is a construction that one puts on, as one puts on clothes in the morning, that there is a 'one' who is prior to this gender, a one who goes to the wardrobe of gender and decides with deliberation which gender it will be today.

Cosmetic surgery processes the bodies of woman-made women, who make up the vast majority of its patient pool, into man-made women.

Men were only made into 'men' with great difficulty even in primitive society: the male is not naturally 'a man' any more than the woman. He has to be propped up into that position with some ingenuity, and is always likely to collapse.

I'm very empathic to the construction of masculinity within our culture and how we build these identities up.

On ne na:"t pas femme: on le devient. One is not born a woman: one becomes a woman.

We are born male. We must learn to be men.

I want to say that the way in which we understand gender actually changes the way we live gender.