Born Quote by Laverne Cox Download Open image “We are born as who we are, the gender thing is something that is imposed on you.” — Laverne Cox ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Born Gender Inspirational Who we are
When gender comes down upon us, male or female, it comes as a restriction. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
The problem with gender is that it prescribes how we should be, rather than recognising how we are. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Clearly, we are not programmed at birth to behave a certain way based on our gender. Instead, we are trained throughout our lives to… — Naveen Jain Copy Share Image
Being a male is a matter of birth. Being a man is a matter of choice. — Edwin Louis Cole Copy Share Image
One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman. No biological, psychological, or economic fate determines the figure that the human female presents in… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
The gender thing doesn't exist; it's a social construct you don't have to fit into. — Rain Dove Copy Share Image
Bodies have a sex, but gender is a thing we made up, like your star sign or nationality. It doesn't really say anything about… — Sara Pascoe Copy Share Image
Gender is not something that one is, it is something one does, an act… a doing rather than a being. — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
Gender is not something that one is, it is something one does, an act... a "doing" rather than a "being". There is no gender… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
I think transwomen, and transpeople in general, show everyone that you can define what it means to be a man or woman on your… — Laverne Cox Copy Share Image
What took time for my mom was getting the pronouns right and calling me by a different name. Laverne was my middle name before… — Laverne Cox Copy Share Image
So often, trans roles don't even go to trans actors. Most of the fabulous trans roles that have won people Oscars, we didn't get… — Laverne Cox Copy Share Image
I believe that when we love someone, we respect them, and we listen to them; we feel that their voice matters. And- we let… — Laverne Cox Copy Share Image
It is revolutionary for any trans person to choose to be seen and visible in a world that tells us we should not exist. — Laverne Cox Copy Share Image
I just have to be myself. I'm not perfect, and I'm going to make mistakes; I might say the wrong thing. I have to… — Laverne Cox Copy Share Image
I'm so grateful that I had the luxury of transitioning in private. Because when you transition in the public eye, the transition becomes the… — Laverne Cox Copy Share Image
When people have points of reference that are humanizing, that demystifies difference. — Laverne Cox Copy Share Image
“Everything that you're going through now is for a reason. You just have to survive so that one day you can thrive.” — Laverne Cox Copy Share Image
Just me existing, as an openly black transgender woman from a working-class background, thriving, is a political act. My brother always reminds me that… — Laverne Cox Copy Share Image
By doing the work to love ourselves more, I believe we will love each other better. — Laverne Cox Copy Share Image
“We are not what other people say we are. We are who we know ourselves to be, and we are what we love. That's… — Laverne Cox Copy Share Image
My mother says I didn't open my eyes for eight days after I was born, but when I did, the first thing I saw… — Elizabeth Taylor Copy Share Image
I always thought if I was born 2000 years earlier, I would be a monk, probably carving a monastery or some giant pantheon buildings. — Jenova Chen Copy Share Image
The real world out there isn't nearly as nice as some people prefer it to be, so don't swallow everything your high-born teachers tell… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Anybody looking for a quiet life has picked the wrong century to born in. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I was born and raised in Orlando, where the economy and culture has been powerfully shaped by tourism, and so I've long been interested… — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
I know that in the rap game you've got a lot of people, that come from poverty, was born in poverty and if it… — Jon Connor Copy Share Image
Nothing old is ever reborn but neither does it totally disappear. And that which has once been born, will always reappear in a new… — Alvar Aalto Copy Share Image
I have lifted my plane . . . for perhaps a thousand flights and I have never felt her wheels glide from the Earth… — Beryl Markham Copy Share Image
If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Must I go bound while you go free Must I love a manwho doesn't love me Must I be born with so little art… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
I'm not against gay people. I have a relative who is also gay. We can't help it if they were born that way. — Manny Pacquiao Copy Share Image
