document updated 14 years ago, on Jun 6, 2012

"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