Agender Quotes

“But it does seem like I’m always the one who has to speak up and tell everyone how I’m different. I have to find a way to help them understand me, even though I don’t really understand them either. Having a gender? Why? Feeling like your body and who you are inside line up all the time? How? Identifying with other folks of your assigned gender as a kid, when I identified with things like extra-fluffy cumulus clouds and nebulas? What does that even feel like? I get nervous trying to explain myself sometimes. I get tired. I grow sharp edges where I didn’t think I had any. And I definitely get to the point where I just want to bury myself in baking and not deal with any of it.”
― A.R. Capetta, The Heartbreak Bakery

“I'm perfectly natural the way I am. Why can't you humans ever understand that I might not want to be afflicted with gender?”
― Carolyn Ives Gilman, Halfway Human

“I do not try to look sexy or cute. Pain pushes even gender out of the way, even vanity, even the hopes of looking like someone else. In some ways, pain returns me to childhood, my eyes to the naked, peaceful orbs of animals.”
― Sonya Huber, Pain Woman Takes Your Keys, and Other Essays from a Nervous System

“What terrible shame overcomes me when I discover the male or female in myself!”
― Unica Zürn, The Man of Jasmine & Other Texts

“There were things that Pumpkin Head—now not Pumpkin Head anymore—had to do to be a girl. He had to be careful how he dressed, and how he acted. He had to be careful how he talked, and he always had to be calm. He was very frightened of what would happen if he didn't stay calm. For his face was really just a wonderful plastic one. The real Pumpkin Head was still inside, locked in, waiting to come out.”
― Al Sarrantonio, 13 Horrors of Halloween

“How good I would feel if I could be something that called itself neither man nor woman.”
― Unica Zürn, The Man of Jasmine & Other Texts

“Humans are more than a gender. Humans can be genderless.”
― Humanityisdiversity.org