Quotes About Androgynous

#1. I'm utterly androgynous, and I truly love it. It's been part of my identity for so long. I've never been that pretty girl, and I wouldn't want to be.

Erin O'Connor

#2. My friends would howl if I claimed I was androgynous - I'm not tall enough!

Sophie McShera

#3. Nina Simone had such an androgynous voice; the first time I listened to her I thought it was a man, and I'm sure a lot of people listening to me think I'm a woman. Her voice is kinda like the poster child for me.

Shamir

#4. I would predicate that in all great works of genius masculine and feminine elements in the personality find expression, whether this androgynous nature is played out sexually or not.

May Sarton

#5. Even when we are screaming and throwing things, we are friends. Who is the man and who is the woman? Sometimes neither of us knows. The marriage is androgynous
like the closest friendships. It will keep.

Erica Jong

#6. I don't get out of bed for less than $50 a day. I want to make that clear to America. This is a new age of androgynous supermodels. We don't get out of bed for less than $50 a day.

Andrej Pejic

#7. My style has always been very free, easy, relaxed, and slightly androgynous.

Erin Wasson

#8. I don't have the panic I used to have, meeting people who are androgynous, but when you meet someone whose identity is unclear, that throws your own identity into flux because the way we treat each other is very gendered.

Alice Dreger

#9. Ardent, intelligent, sweet, sensitive, cultivated, erudite. These are the adjectives of praise in an androgynous world. Those who consider them epithets of shame or folly ought not to be trusted with leadership, for they will be men hot for power and revenge, certain of right and wrong.

Carolyn Heilbrun

#10. As you know, I'm androgynous. I can wear a jacket that most guys wouldn't put on. But you make it in guys' sizes, and suddenly they're wearing them. I think styles should get back to getting people to wear things that look so good that they don't care.

Steven Tyler

#11. As Baudelaire said it so beautifully, Emma Bovary is an androgynous character. She cannot be reduced to a gender or a sociological type. She represents something bigger than herself. That was the genius of Flaubert: the ability to combine the general and the particular.

Sophie Barthes

#12. Through the 13th century, paintings of Angels exhibit a predominantly masculine appearance. Over the next 300 years, their images become more delicate, gentle, and feminine, until Angels are shown as androgynous or even distinctly female.

David Connolly

#13. On one hand I am this weird androgynous tomboy where I'm strangely low maintenance and have a five-minute makeup regimen. On the other I'm obsessed with all things beauty, from skin care to makeup.

Rachel Zoe

#14. I like a sort of androgynous look, but I also love feminine shapes.

Dakota Johnson

#15. If I'm androgynous, I'd say I lean toward macho-androgynous.

John Travolta

#16. I was always into very androgynous things. Guys, girls ... I'm into androgyny in general.

Evan Rachel Wood

#17. Women's liberationists spread the word that the only peaceful family is one in which either the wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.

Emmett Tyrrell

#18. When it comes to their essential faculty as writers, all writers are androgynous beings.

Nadine Gordimer

#19. I have, in the past, been attracted to really strong and dominant men. But on the other side, I have been attracted to very androgynous men. I don't typically fall for your average jock. I just like people that are a little atypical.

Lisa Marie Presley

#20. My style very much leans towards the masculine, but I think I am feminine in it - I like the feminine body in masculine shapes. The androgynous look suits me.

Charlotte Rampling

#21. If I am who I am, I'm provocative, candid, and androgynous; there's nothing I can do that will make any fan think, 'I didn't expect that from her.'

Halsey

#22. I've got the long hair and kind of androgynous look. It's love-hate; it's sexy, but not sexy. So it's either you get it or you don't.

Carrot Top

#23. Virginia Woolf said that writers must be androgynous. I'll go a step further. You must be bisexual.

Rita Mae Brown

#24. I can't hear myself. I can stare at my double chin all I want, but hearing this androgynous voice, you can't even tell what sex I am.

Jennifer Lawrence

#25. The fans, the vampire groupies, love the idea of this androgynous, preternatural figure stalking the night, and craving aesthetic pleasure just as he craves blood, wearing only the best velvet clothes, and savoring red roses.

Anne Rice

#26. I was a girly-girl until I moved to New York. Then I got really into the androgynous look of the early-'90s club scene. I had really short hair and started blurring the line a bit. But for me, grade school was about Benetton, Esprit, and Guess jeans.

Chloe Sevigny

#27. Those that think my clothes are androgynous also still believe that women should look like Barbie dolls. That's precisely the problem, the deep-rooted assumptions about what is feminine.

Ann Demeulemeester

#28. Putting women in military combat is the cutting edge of the feminist goal to force us into an androgynous society.

Phyllis Schlafly

#29. As far as influences, I listen to a lot of people like Nina Simone and other androgynous voices, almost to make me feel like I'm not alone.

Shamir

#30. Monsieur Saint Laurent was pathologically shy, and he made the Saint Laurent woman in his own image. Like her, I am shy. And to protect myself, I adopted something of an androgynous look, just as his women did.

Carine Roitfeld

#31. When laced into his clothing, Laurent's dangerous grace lent him an almost androgynous quality. Or perhaps it was more accurate to say that it was rare to associate Laurent with a physical body at all: you were always dealing with a mind.

C.S. Pacat

#32. I can have an androgynous quality.

Lara Stone

#33. I do feel like I'm at ease in my own skin when I find an androgynous balance.

Evangeline Lilly

#34. I'm more androgynous, because men are supposed to be more spatial, women more literal - I'm a tomboy.

Portia Doubleday

#35. Chris Hedges said that Michael Jackson's memorial service was a variety show with a coffin, that MJ transformed himself through surgery and perhaps female hormones from a brown-skinned African American male to a chalk-faced androgynous ghoul with no clear sexual identity.

Chris Hedges

#36. It's hard because I think I fall into this in-between space where there's something that's innately feminine about me, and there's also something that's kind of androgynous. I carry myself somewhere in between, and I think my music lends itself to that as well.

Halsey

#37. It sounds cliche, but I'm mostly androgynous in what I wear. I'll wear a lot of tomboy clothes but still dress glam if I have a red carpet event. It's a bit of a mix, but mostly androgynous.

Ruby Rose

#38. Final Fantasy VII awoke American gaming to the possibilities of narrative dynamism and the importance of relatively developed characters - no small inspiration to take from a series whose beautifully androgynous male characters often appear to be some kind of heterosexual stress test.

Tom Bissell

#39. Androgynous fashion, long hair, the Pill, a new interest in the inner psychological life - an unabashed sloppiness, if you will - really marks the sixties. It was when Britain went girlie. And what do girls do? Girls shop.

Andrew Marr

#40. An androgynous mind was not a male mind. It was a mind attuned to the full range of human experience, including the invisible lives of women.

Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

#41. Hinduism, the predominant religion (in India), believes in the existence of multiple gods, many of whom are androgynous (having both female and male characteristics). Many Hindu sects are devoted to the worship of specific deities, such as Rama, Vishnu, and Shiva.

James Peoples

#42. I'm naturally androgynous. I don't wear makeup or skirts.

Shamir

#43. Mid-range, androgynous voice. I first thought that Solaris was a guy. Then a girl. Maybe. Then I gave up trying to figure out which. It would become obvious at some point, or not.

Nalo Hopkinson

#44. I do very emphatically believe there is an enormous amount of the androgynous in any all-or-nothing prose writer, or even a would-be one.

J.D. Salinger

#45. The bag I wanted was beyond reason - something to hold my poems, twice as big as the universe and it must be androgynous.

Eileen Myles

#46. God is not something I think about but something I experience as an energy, a Presence. I do find it easier to pray to a female Presence or an androgynous Presence.

Olympia Dukakis

#47. In a sense I portray myself in a very androgynous way, and I love androgyny.

Lady Gaga

#48. I feel like my style is very much androgynous. It's rock, chic, like casual wear, but then on the flip side to that, being that it's so androgynous, it'll either be skinny jeans and a leather jacket, or if I'm doing a red carpet or event, I'll completely flip that and be wearing a suit or a dress.

Ruby Rose

#49. A great mind must be androgynous.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge