Androgyny Quote by Alice Oseman

“The voice belonged to a plump, round-faced woman of the sort that develops a good personality because the alternative is suicide.”

— Ben Aaronovitch

“Mid-range, androgynous voice. I first thought that Solaris was a guy. Then a girl. Maybe. Then I gave up trying to figure out which.…

— Nalo Hopkinson

“All dwarfs have beards and wear up to twelve layers of clothing. Gender is more or less optional.”

— Terry Pratchett

“you are not a man, but a feminine monstrosity with a bass voice!”

— Edwin A. Abbott

“I realized that lacking the feminine, the language had communicated to me in subtle ways that women were nonentities, that women counted mostly as…

— Sue Monk Kidd

“I constructed you to look very male—so male that the females would be attracted to you and help convince you that you were male.”

— Octavia E. Butler

“I don't identify with the words female or male. They are not my words. The space in which I have felt gendered female and…

— Nevo Zisin

“I can't recall a single masculine figure created by a woman who is not, at bottom, a booby.”

— H.L. Mencken

“I thought about writing the character as male, but then I would be forced to portray him as a woman in a man's body.”

— Chris Stocking

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

— Barbara Kellerman

“All men are the same. They just have different faces so that women differentiate them.”

— Marilyn Monroe

“women should act like they had a vocabulary and talk like they were ladies.”

— Sonovia Alexander