when it comes to their essential faculty as writers, all…

Virginia Woolf said that writers must be androgynous. I'll go a step further. You must be bisexual.

— Rita Mae Brown

Humans, the only self-regarding animals, blessed or cursed with this torturing higher faculty, have always wanted to know why.

— Nadine Gordimer

The cultivation of one set of faculties tends to the disuse of others. The loss of one faculty sharpens others; the blind are sensitive…

— Judith Ellen Foster

Let's call a spade a spade: when people look at me, they say, 'Oh, she's the androgynous one.' I'll tell you what type of…

— Katherine Moennig

Through the 13th century, paintings of Angels exhibit a predominantly masculine appearance. Over the next 300 years, their images become more delicate, gentle, and…

— David Connolly

Never be afraid to try something new. Remember, amateurs built the ark; professionals built the Titanic. Never, btw, ask that androgynous paper clip anything.…

— Louis Menand

Monsieur Saint Laurent was pathologically shy, and he made the Saint Laurent woman in his own image. Like her, I am shy. And to…

— Carine Roitfeld

I think there's a level at which you think that there's a reason that you're being singled out, that you're being chosen. As a…

— Matt Reeves

Ardent, intelligent, sweet, sensitive, cultivated, erudite. These are the adjectives of praise in an androgynous world. Those who consider them epithets of shame or…

— Carolyn Heilbrun

Those that think my clothes are androgynous also still believe that women should look like Barbie dolls. That's precisely the problem, the deep-rooted assumptions…

— Ann Demeulemeester

I was more feminine. I was a girly-girl until I moved to New York. Then I got really into the androgynous look of the…

— Chloe Sevigny

I won't get out of bed for less than $10,000 a day…

— Linda Evangelista

“. . . the less androgynous the person, the likelier he or she was to be incapable of action if the appropriate action was…

— Carolyn Heilbrun

There is hardly an American male of my generation who has not at one time or another tried to master the victory cry of…

— Gore Vidal

I've got the long hair and kind of androgynous look. It's love-hate; it's sexy, but not sexy. So it's either you get it or…

— Carrot Top