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

    Girl   Guy   Androgyny  
    "A Guided Tour of Evan Rachel Wood: A Woman We Love" by Julian Sanction, www.esquire.com. April 17, 2011.
  • Three, community built on androgynous identity will mean the end of transsexuality as we know it. Either the transsexual will be able to expand his/her sexuality into a fluid androgyny, or, as roles disappear, the phenomenon of transsexuality will disappear and that energy will be transformed into new modes of sexual identity and behavior.

  • The clarity of gender makes possible the human dialectic. Let the lines of balanced tension go slack and the structure dissolves into the ooze of androgyny and narcissism.

    Men   Lines   Narcissism  
  • We don't have a clue what it is to be male or female, or if there are intermediate genders. Male and female might be fields which overlap into androgyny or different kinds of sexual desires. But because we live in a Western, patriarchal world, we have very little chance of exploring these gender possibilities.

    Desire   Males   Female  
    "Eve Experts". Real World Multimedia, realworldmultimedia.com, 2004.
  • As a concept [androgyny] raise[s] anxiety levels by conjuring up a conformist, unisex vision, the very opposite of the individuality and uniqueness that feminism actually has in mind.

  • Homosexuality appeared as one of the forms of sexuality when it was transposed from the practice of sodomy into a kind of interior androgyny, a hermaphroditism of the soul. The sodomite had been a temporary aberration; the homosexual was now a species.

    The History of Sexuality vol. 1, pt. 2, ch. 2 (1976) (translation by Robert Hurley)
  • A lot of men do have a fear of my ultra-femininity. Sometimes people say I look like a drag queen, that I look scary, but I think that's a fear of my confidence. Most women in contemporary culture pare down their femininity, so there's a slight androgyny about them, and I think men have got used to seeing that.

    Queens   Men   Thinking  
  • Androgyny is not trying to manage the relationship between the opposites; it is simply flowing between them.

    June Singer (1989). “Androgyny: The Opposites Within”, Sigo Pr
  • 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.

    Simple   Men   Choices  
  • What was so interesting about the glam era was that it was about bisexuality and breaking down the boundaries between gays and straights, breaking down the boundaries between masculinity and femininity with this androgyny thing.

    Gay   Interesting   Eras  
    Source: www.avclub.com
  • My style is scruffy with a touch of androgyny.

    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • There is a certain androgyny to my appeal.

    "Ellen Barkin on 'Another Happy Day,' Sam Levinson, and Being a 'Broad'". Interview with Kevin Sessums, www.thedailybeast.com. November 15, 2011.
  • A man who from the beginning has long been soaked in the languid atmosphere of a woman, the scent of her hands, her bosom, her knees, her hair, her lithe and flowing clothes, Sweet bath, suavely Scented with ointments, has acquired a delicacy of skin, a refinement of tone, a kind of androgyny without which the toughest and most virile of geniuses remains, when it comes to artistic perfection, an incomplete being.

    Women   Hair   Hands  
    "Les paradis artificiels". Book by Charles Baudelaire, 1860.
  • Androgyny suggests a spirit of reconciliation between the sexes; it suggests, further, a full range of experience…it suggests a spectrum upon which human beings choose their places without regard to propriety or custom.

    Sex   Spirit   Range  
  • I was inspired by the androgyny of Yohji Yamanoto's designs to translate the clothing's dualities onto screen and image. I was playing with a multitude of influences for the S/S 2012 campaign, inspired by the modernist literature and architecture that is in itself a fusion of political and architectural mantras, both dreamy and concrete.

  • As to sex, the original pleasure, I cannot recommend too highly the advantages of androgyny.

    Sex   Pleasure   Gender  
    Jan Morris (1989). “Pleasures of a tangled life”, Vintage
  • Homosexuality, like androgyny, might be an instinctive racial response to overpopulation, crowding, and stress. Both flourish when empire reaches its apogee.

    Stress   Might   Empires  
  • the term 'androgyny' ... defines a condition under which the characteristics of the sexes, and the human impulses expressed by men and women, are not rigidly assigned. Androgyny seeks to liberate the individual from the confines of the appropriate.

    Sex   Men   Individual  
    Carolyn G. Heilbrun (1974). “Toward a recognition of androgyny”, HarperCollins Publishers
  • I think the gender story will become less fraught with hard edges - and not that we'll have androgyny, but that men and women will move more fluidly into each other's domains.

    Moving   Men   Thinking  
    Source: www.huffingtonpost.com
  • In a sense I portray myself in a very androgynous way, and I love androgyny.

  • Androgyny suggests a spirit of reconciliation between the sexes.

    Sex   Spirit   Gender  
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