Gender Fluidity Quotes

“My mother said the bizarre name Raccoona had surely been inspired, at least on a subliminal level, by the masks raccoons don't wear but simply have - the ones given them by nature..... [S]he pointed out that Le Guin had suspected all along that Raccoona and Tiptree were two authors that came from the same source, but in a letter to Alice she wrote that she preferred Tiptree to Raccoona: 'Raccoona, I think, has less control, thus less wit and power.'

Le Guin, Mother said, had understood something deep. 'When you take on a male persona, something happens.'

When I asked her what that was, she sat back in her chair, waved her arm, and smiled. 'You get to be the father.”
― Siri Hustvedt, The Blazing World

“They burned down the market on the day Vivek Oji died.”
― Akwaeke Emezi, The Death of Vivek Oji

“I walked into a hipster coffee shop and asked for a cup of 'gender fluid'. The cashier just pointed to the barista.”
― Michael Rectenwald, Springtime for Snowflakes: Social Justice and Its Postmodern Parentage

“Hate to be the one to break this to you, nature boy, but hardly anything is real," I laugh. "Gender, the idea that there are two shores directly across from each other. The lake has a ton of hidden shores, but you don't know that if you're stuck standing on the land.”
― Ryan La Sala, The Honeys

“She got the feeling that she might drown in gender fluids if she stepped inside, or that her own gender, not all that solid to begin with, might deliquesce like fungi and stain the pink counter stool, but that it might be good for her, just what she needed. She stared at the bright fruit painted on the side of the building and wondered if she should cut her bangs.”
― Jen Beagin, Big Swiss

“Ben shook his head.
Sitting down he asked, “So, you are Marty, right?”
He got an incredulous look in response along with a cautious, “Yeah.”
“You look way different dressed like that and without any make up on and stuff. Like a pretty guy almost, no offense.”
Marty widened her eyes incredulously. “Umm...I have a confession here I obviously need to make. We're in public, so don't you dare punch me, or try to jump me later. I got witnesses who'll be able to verify I was here with you and that you threatened me.”
Ben's brows furrowed. “What? Why would I do that?”
“Hello, my name is Marty.” Marty extended her hand across the table. “I'm a guy.”
― Leona Windwalker, Ben's Beginning

“masculinity is aromatic and may be derived from flattening or freshly-shaved haircut. it is sexy in the way that it touches and the way that it questions and the way that it challenges who can house it.”
― Aimee Herman, Meant to Wake Up Feeling

“masculinity is double-jointed and vegetarian. masculinity is sleep-deprived and well-traveled and an immigrant and a soldier”
― Aimee Herman, Meant to Wake Up Feeling

“if breasts were detachable, would you leave them behind”
― Aimee Herman, Meant to Wake Up Feeling

“If I can be any gender I want to be, can I also be any race I want to be? Can I be a white guy today and a black woman tomorrow? Or is that racist?”
― Oliver Markus Malloy, American Fascism: A German Writer's Urgent Warning To America

“And then I found out that gender can have fluidity , which is quite different from ambiguity. If ambiguity is a refusal to fall within a prescribed gender code, then fluidity is the refusal to remain one gender or another. Gender fluidity is the ability to freely and knowingly become one or many of a limitless number of genders, for any length of time, at any rate of change. Gender fluidity recognizes no borders or rules of gender.”
― Kate Bornstein, Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women and the Rest of Us

“The ultimate purpose of the struggle for gender fluidity and equality ought to be to turn gender irrelevant in society, not to obsess over it for eternity.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Heart Force One: Need No Gun to Defend Society