Dad Quote by Janet Mock

My dad treated me like a boy because he grew up with four brothers. He didn't baby me. He was never, like, "You're a…

— Kid Sister

I was gender-nonconforming in high school in terms of the way I dressed, in terms of the way I cut my hair.

— Asia Kate Dillon

Everything that I was ridiculed for as a child - being too feminine or wearing a dress - has made my life fabulous now.

— Bianca Del Rio

My mother's rules had to do with feminine deportment, so I never played hard enough to break a toy or muddy my dress. My…

— Bharati Mukherjee

Literally, over a weekend, Friday to Monday, I went from a C.I.A. officer to changing diapers and putting the kid in a Bjorn and…

— Tom King

And then, going to high school, I saw how popular girls had to behave to get the boys. I knew I couldn't fit into…

— Madonna Ciccone

There was nothing girlish about me. I wore clothes hand-stitched by my mother... I had only one ear pierced and preferred loose shirts and…

— Divyanka Tripathi

Stern and critical, my father couldn't accept how feminine and dainty I was in comparison to my rough-and-tumble brother.

— Janet Mock

As a child, I was prancing around in my mother's high heels and a ra-ra skirt, singing 'Material Girl' into my hairbrush.

— Natalie Dormer

My personal style really started in my teens when I gained purchasing power to actually buy my own damn clothes. For so long, my…

— Janet Mock

I was a boy, suddenly treated like the men and expected to act like them.

— Robbie Fowler

The old G's, or the gangsters, turned me away from the street because they knew my dad, and they had a lot of respect…

— Ed Reed