Assigned Male Quotes

#1. I was assigned male at birth, is the way I like to put it, because I think we're born who we are and the gender thing is something someone imposes on you. And so I was assigned male at birth, but I always felt like I was a girl.

Laverne Cox

#2. I grew up as a child living 'Red Dawn.' I was leaping out of spider holes, mowing down Russkies at the age of eight.

C. Thomas Howell

#3. This is Maximilien de Robespierre, barrister-at-law: unmarried, personable, a young man with all his life before him. Today against his most deeply held convictions he has followed the course of the law and sentenced a criminal to death. And now he is going to pay for it.

Hilary Mantel

#4. But if you want to win, you're going to have to fight.

Stieg Larsson

#5. Now, I don't think I'm a stupid guy. I'm just an average guy who does
stupid things.

Chris Thrall

#6. No matter how entrenched in the imagination of the average Christian the image of a male God might be, theological tradition has never assigned sex to God.

Sandra Marie Schneiders

#7. I practice selfless giving not because I'm remarkable but just because I find that its terrifically fun!

Frederick Lenz

#8. Perhaps nothing is so depressing an index of the inhumanity of the male-supremacist mentality as the fact that the more genial human traits are assigned to the underclass: affection, response to sympathy, kindness, cheerfulness.

Kate Millett

#9. Pregnancy humbles husbands. After an initial rush of male pride they quickly recognise the minor role that nature had assigned them in the drama of reproduction.

Jeffrey Eugenides

#10. As a boy, I used to look upon the hieroglyphics as so many wonderful pictures.

Cecil B. DeMille

#11. What makes a person is the ability to look at themselves and deal with their own lives.

Naomi Campbell

#12. During the rule of the Southern Dynasties (A.D. 317-589), one Chinese princess argued that she, like her brother the emperor, was entitled to a harem. Her wishes prevailed, and she was assigned thirty male "concubines."10

Stephanie Coontz

#13. People in a connected world are exposed to the stories of strangers through many channels, including face-to-face encounters, interviews in the media, and memoirs and autobiographical accounts.

Steven Pinker