High school Quote by Brittney Griner

I know people started suspecting whether I was a woman or a man. All the honour I earned - I lost.

— Dutee Chand

My whole life I've had people telling me that I look like a man, I'm not feminine, I'm too masculine, all that stuff.

— Rhea Ripley

We had a mother who could have been called a feminist. That's just how we were raised. Why do you have to go sulk…

— Ann Wilson

I have always fought against being gender specific. I just don't like being identified as female: I'm a person.

— Toyah Willcox

When I was born, there was a very isolated idea of what it meant to be a man or a woman, and you belonged…

— Javier Bardem

There was no real gender definition in the sense of how you treat people in those days with gender differences. You avoided them. My…

— David C. Driskell

When I came out, initially, I faced some mocking. For the first 10-15 days, sometimes when I was out in public, people would shout…

— Dutee Chand

Everybody told me to be a man. Nobody told me how.

— Laurie Halse Anderson

People call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute.

— Rebecca West

Many of us were raised with the 'be a lady' thing, and all those kind of things that can be used against you and…

— Karen Kilgariff

I had always been pegged for being feminine. People would always say, 'Ooh, that's a pretty little girl.' They would talk about my eyelashes…

— Angelica Ross

When I was in school, martial arts made you a dork, and I became self-conscious that I was too masculine. I was a 16-year-old…

— Ronda Rousey