Top 42 Quotes About Androgyny
#1. As to sex, the original pleasure, I cannot recommend too highly the advantages of androgyny.
Jan Morris
#2. I was born and raised in Manhattan; I didn't realize that I, in all my androgyny, was a freak to the rest of this country.
IO Tillett Wright
#4. The clarity of gender makes possible the human dialectic. Let the lines of balanced tension go slack and the structure dissolves into the ooze of androgyny and narcissism.
Bill Vaughan
#5. I was always into very androgynous things. Guys, girls ... I'm into androgyny in general.
Evan Rachel Wood
#6. What was so interesting about the glam era was that it was about bisexuality and breaking down the boundaries between gays and straights, breaking down the boundaries between masculinity and femininity with this androgyny thing.
Todd Haynes
#7. The term 'androgyny' ... defines a condition under which the characteristics of the sexes, and the human impulses expressed by men and women, are not rigidly assigned. Androgyny seeks to liberate the individual from the confines of the appropriate.
Carolyn Heilbrun
#9. Homosexuality appeared as one of the forms of sexuality when it was transposed from the practice of sodomy onto a kind of interior androgyny, a hermaphrodism of the soul. The sodomite had been a temporary aberration; the homosexual was now a species
Michel Foucault
#10. I think the gender story will become less fraught with hard edges - and not that we'll have androgyny, but that men and women will move more fluidly into each other's domains.
Elizabeth Lesser
#11. I think that androgyny is so amazing. Men's shows I can look at and say, 'I would wear that.' But there's things I see at Nina Ricci, and I'm like, 'They need to make that in men's,' or 'I want those pants.' Everything is inspiring.
Mark Indelicato
#12. In a sense I portray myself in a very androgynous way, and I love androgyny.
Lady Gaga
#13. There is a certain androgyny to my appeal.
Ellen Barkin
#14. To recommend that women become identical to men, would be simple reversal, and would defeat the whole point of androgyny, and for that matter, feminism: in both, the whole point is choice.
Carolyn Gold Heilbrun
#15. Nothing is more attractive than universal appeal. That is what makes androgyny the peacekeeping persuasion.
Bauvard
#16. Homosexuality, like androgyny, might be an instinctive racial response to overpopulation, crowding, and stress. Both flourish when empire reaches its apogee.
Edward Abbey
#17. As a concept [androgyny] raise[s] anxiety levels by conjuring up a conformist, unisex vision, the very opposite of the individuality and uniqueness that feminism actually has in mind.
Gloria Steinem
#18. Androgyny is not trying to manage the relationship between the opposites; it is simply flowing between them.
June Singer
#19. Androgyny refers to a specific way of joining the 'masculine' and 'feminine' aspects of a single human being.
June Singer
#20. I'm in favour of hipster androgyny: Any trend that permits men to rebel against strict gender rules of appearance is going to make the world a more expressive and sensitive place for all of us.
Russell Smith
#21. I grew up at a time with androgyny in the 1980s; it was easy to pass under the radar as a gay may.
Alexis Arquette
#22. Androgyny suggests a spirit of reconciliation between the sexes ...
Carolyn Heilbrun
#23. My style is scruffy with a touch of androgyny.
Sadie Frost
#24. I experimented with fashion as it being more like art, allowing what I wore to express what I was feeling on the inside. Androgyny, rock culture, and grunge - they definitely had an effect on the things that made me feel cool and comfortable.
Ruby Rose
#25. Ever since I was little, I showed traits of both masculine and feminine energies. Androgyny was never something that I thought about or tried for.
Shamir
#26. My heart was closed. Cold.
I was self-conscious and cynical.
Tablo
#27. The goal should not be getting married at the right age but to find love which will stay forever
Subhasis Das
#28. Your mind must always go, even while you're shaking hands and going through all the maneuvers. I developed the ability long ago to do one thing while thinking about another.
Richard M. Nixon
#30. According to some, heroic deaths are admirable things. I've never been convinced by this argument, mainly because, no matter how cool, stylish, composed, unflappable, manly, or defiant you are, at the end of the day you're also dead. Which is a little too permanent for my liking.
Jonathan Stroud
#31. I hate it when people try to act cool. I hope they all get gonorreah and die.
Mark Hoppus
#32. You are priests, not social or political leaders. Let us not be under the illusion that we are serving the Gospel through an exaggerated interest in the wide field of temporal problems.
Pope John Paul II
#33. It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple; one must be woman-manly or man-womanly ... Some marriage of opposites has to be consummated.
Virginia Woolf
#34. All your renown is like the summer flower that blooms and dies; because the sunny glow which brings it forth, soon slays with parching power.
Dante Alighieri
#35. 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
#36. Until civil rights are enjoyed by all of us, we're simply not civilized.
Rupert Friend
#37. When we want to let go of a situation no matter what it is we must be able to "bless" it. When you bless something you sanction it giving it your approval and endorsement freeing it to go forward with your cooperation and support.
Sue Augustine
#38. Don't feel stupid if you don't like what everyone else pretends to love.
Emma Watson
#39. The work of television is to establish false contexts and to chronicle the unraveling of existing contexts; finally, to establish the context of no-context and to chronicle it.
George W. S. Trow
#40. The audience will always forgive you for being wrong and exciting, but never for being right and dull.
Burt Reynolds
#41. There are always three sides to every memory ... yours, theirs, and the truth, which lies somewhere in between the two
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#42. It was a rotten time to try to be a man in America. Until Blue came along I'd never even spent time around a man. Hell, I'd never even seen one. Where were all the men in this once great land?
Sol Luckman
