Band Quote by Gina Schock

Every conversation we have as a band is about gender in some way, and it's been like that from the beginning.

— Lauren Mayberry

I was raised in a musical family - 5 girls and 1 boy - so all of us girls don't do gender. We were…

— Suzi Quatro

It was never a case of male and female when I was growing up. I played with my cousins, my friends. From a young…

— Nikita Parris

I've never played on my gender.

— Susie Wolff

I understand why some women/girls/ladies don't want to be women-identified 'cuz it totally complicates your band identity and no one seems to pay much…

— Tobi Vail

We never thought of ourselves as a girl band. We dressed like blokes.

— Keren Woodward

We were the first all-girl band that wrote and played our own stuff. You know, the odds were really against us because rock has…

— Charlotte Caffey

One thing I learned is that I don't want to be in an all-girl band again. Besides, most of my friends are guys, anyway.

— Kim Shattuck

I'm sure that a lot of women and men feel differently about it, but for me this isn't about being the girl in the…

— Lauren Mayberry

“How come when girls play with gender it’s a sign of strength and when boys play with gender it’s a sign of weakness? I…

— Lori Duron

Musically, I have more things in common with tons of bands that have no female members.

— St. Vincent

People put stock in someone being in a 'girl group,' but we don't say that a band is a 'man group.'

— Emily Robison