“ It’s not possible to live twenty-four hours a day soaked in the immediate awareness of one’s sex. Gendered self-consciousness has, mercifully, a flickering nature. Denise Riley
“ One Saturday morning walking to the farmers' market with my lover she tells me she needs to look like a man on the street. She hates binding her breasts. Hates having breasts, hates not passing. I pre… M.J. Kaufman
“ Instead of saying that all gender is this or all gender id that, let's recognize that the word gender has scores of meanings built into it. It's an amalgamation of bodies, identities, and life experie… Kate Bornstein S. Bear Bergman
“ One day stores will no longer have gender classifications. Instead the consumer decides how and what they want, rather than the social engineering of corporations. The concept of gender will be extinc… Lorin Morgan-Richards
“ Men love war because it allows them to look serious. Because they imagine it is the only thing that stops women laughing at them. In it they can reduce women to the status of objects. That is the grea… John Fowles
“ John [the father] kept saying, You have a penis. That means you’re a boy. One day, Shannon noticed that her son had been in the bathroom an awfully long time and pushed the door open. He had a pair of… Andrew Solomon
“ Watching Paris is Burning, I began to think that the many yuppie-looking, straight -acting, pushy, predominantly white folks in the audience were there because the film in no way interrogates whitenes… Bell Hooks
“ The voices belonged to dragons.Five of them lay on or sprawled over or curled around the various rocks and columns that filled the huge cave where Cimorene stood. Each of the males (there were three)… Patricia C. Wrede
“ The last dragon was apparently still too young to have made up its mind which sex it wanted to be; it didn't have any horns at all. Patricia C. Wrede
“ It is fatal for anyone who writes to think of their sex. It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple; one must be woman-manly or man-womanly. It is fatal for a woman to lay the least stress on an… Virginia Woolf
“ Gender is like a Rubik’s Cube with one hundred squares per side, and every time you twist it to take a look at another angle, you make it that much harder a puzzle to solve. Sam Killermann
“ It reached a point where the paranoia was getting to me. Everywhere I looked, it seemed like people were hanging out, wanting to date, hooking up, wanting to hook up—it was relationships, relationship… Jess C. Scott
“ Sometimes I don't know what I am. But what I would like to be on the outside -- what I want other people to see -- is a girl. Alyssa Brugman
“ I can understand why you would want to be literally out of your own heard, because being inside your own head is unbearable. Alyssa Brugman
“ I can see where this is going, too. Of course, I can, because I am Alex as well. But I want to dress up in gorgeous clothes and strut up and down the runway like they do in the magazines, swishing my… Alyssa Brugman
