• "girls can wear jeans and cut their hair short
  wear shirts and boots
  because it's okay to be a boy
  but for a boy to look like a girl is degrading
  because you think being a girl is degrading" -Cement Garden (movie), later included in a Madonna song [pic]
• "We as women are trained to see ourselves as cheap imitations of fashion photographs, rather than seeing fashion photographs as cheap imitations of women." —Naomi Wolf
• "We are all born naked, and the rest is drag." -RuPaul
• "One is not born a woman; one becomes one." -Simone de Beauvoir
• "There is no original or primary gender a drag imitates, but gender is a kind of imitation for which there is no original." -Judith Butler, summarizing her theory of gender performativity.
• "Men worry about their identity and their sexuality to the extent that they seem to need constant reassurance that they are in fact male." -GQ Style Guy
• "The worst thing is for a child to be afraid of their own body." -XXY