#androgyny

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

#gender #gender-identity #marriage

There is a certain androgyny to my appeal. ↗

— Ellen Barkin

#appeal #certain

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

— Evan Rachel Wood

#androgynous #androgyny #general #guys #i

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 Heilbrun

#become #both #choice #defeat #feminism

Androgyny is not trying to manage the relationship between the opposites; it is simply flowing between them. ↗

— June Singer

#between #flowing #manage #opposites #relationship

Androgyny refers to a specific way of joining the 'masculine' and 'feminine' aspects of a single human being. ↗

— June Singer

#aspects #being #feminine #human #human being

... All who have brought about a state of sex-consciousness are to blame, and it is they who drive me, when I want to stretch my faculties on a book, to seek it in that happy age ... when the writer used both sides of his mind [the male and female sides of his mind] equally. One must turn back to Shakespeare then, for Shakespeare was androgynous; and so were Keats and Sterne and Cowper and Lamb and Coleridge. Shelley perhaps was sexless. Milton and Ben Jonson had a dash too much of the male in them. So had Wordsworth and Tolstoy. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#keats #mind #shakespeare #writing #age

Nothing is more attractive than universal appeal. That is what makes androgyny the peacekeeping persuasion. ↗

— Bauvard

#funny #humor #funny

I see fashion as a proclamation or manifestation of identity, so, as long as identities are important, fashion will continue to be important. The link between fashion and identity begins to get real interesting, however, in the case of people who don't fall clearly into a culturally-recognized identity. ↗

— Kate Bornstein

#gender #queer #men

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

— Lady Gaga

#androgyny #i #i love #love #myself