It's imprecise and insufficient, defining the homosexual as a person whose gender expression is at odds with his or her sex.

I was attracted to girly boys and boyish girls, or girls who later became boys. Boy were always going to be part of the equation.

What is assertive in a man can appear abrasive in a woman, and female leaders risk appearing too feminine or not feminine enough.

So many men in my life have tried to “fix me”; they viewed me as a “fiery” being who is in need of taming

Now why should that man have fainted? But he did,and right across my path by the wall, so that I had to creep over him every time!

Masculinity is part of a binary and requires its opposite, since, in the absence of femininity, masculinity would have no meaning.

It's my choice to be beautiful. It's my choice to be ugly. And it's my choice to decided what those words actually mean.

Usually when you see females in movies, they feel like they have these metallic structures around them, they are caged by male energy.

The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.

The female form provides the solution in which the essence itself is held; she is passio, and acted upon, the male is actio, the mover.

I was thinking: Girls get scared way too often. Girls get stupidly scared. I was not scared.Telling myself not to be scared kind of worked.

I don't know why people persist in believing women are inferior, when it is quite clear that men are the more feeble-minded of the two.

I was used to being perceived as having a good attitude. Self-control, self-effacement, self-denial. People like this, especially in girls.

We speak of the masculine and the feminine, but they are the wrong labels. It is really more a matter of poetry versus intellectualization.

It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple; one must be woman-manly or man-womanly. ... Some marriage of opposites has to be consummated.