Drag Quotes

“I went to school in drag, in art school and my day was completely different because everybody thought I was a chick. You should see me as a chick. So I went as a girl, as like an experiment and it worked really well and everyone was really nice to me but I couldn't talk obviously...you know train conductors were really cool to me on my commute...HA! I looked hot as a chick!”
― Gerard Way

“It's a good thing I was born a girl, otherwise I'd be a drag queen.”
― Dolly Parton

“The fact that you can still stand for God even when some people try to push you to fall, is a proof that you were not DRAGGED Up, but you were BROUGHT Up!”
― Israelmore Ayivor

“I put on some make-up, turn on the 8-track, and I'm pulling the wig down from the shelf - suddenly I'm Miss Punk Rock Star of Stage and Screen and I ain't ever turning back!”
― John Cameron Mitchell, Hedwig and the Angry Inch

“Day drag." Ashley answered simply. "The sun turns vampires into dust and drag queens into this." He motioned with his hand down his body.”
― Kyle Adams, A Dirty Drag Collection

“Ego loves identity. Drag mocks identity. Ego hates drag.”
― RuPaul

“Wild horses wouldn't draw it from you?”
― Stevenson, Robert Louis

“He’d use this opportunity to impress Rick and show him that he did, in fact, have more to offer than just being a sexy skanktart. To show that he wasn’t just a brainless bimfoon, that’s when a bimbo breeds with a buffoon, resulting in a true, hot mess.”
― Kyle Adams, Dirty Drag 3: Beyond The Drag

“You were brought to where you are standing now because the decisions you took some time back have held you by your hands and dragged you this far.”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Shaping the dream

“Being booed off stage is just an applause from ghosts!”
― Sharon Needles

“One square yard of drag will slow a falling body almost twenty percent.”
― Dan Brown, Angels & Demons

“Burlesque involves stripping... It's also historically been a way of satirizing or commenting on politics, making people laugh, showing off your sexuality or your body- it's hella queer.”
― Ray Stoeve, Between Perfect and Real

“Well, God's not real... and I am so, do that with that.”
― Trixie Mattel

“The fates lead her who will; who won't they drag.”
― Tom Spanbauer, In the City of Shy Hunters

“Drag is armor, darling. No matter how you look at it. Once I become Bambi, nobody can hurt me. Not my family, not the drunk assholes at the bar, nobody. A good lace-front wig and the right contouring are as strong a bulletproof vest as I’ve ever needed.”
― Jeffery Self, Drag Teen

“Drag intends to make a parody of what society believes to be the domain of either gender, in order to make us realise how tenuous and ridiculous such constructs are. The drag queen may have all the accessories and paraphernalia which society uses to determine femininity, but the result is not feminine at all. Drag is a creatively subversive performance, inviting the audience to question frameworks of gender.”
― Az Hakeem, TRANS: Exploring Gender Identity and Gender Dysphoria

“Drag for me has always been my superhero costume.”
― RuPaul, GuRu

“Barry prided himself on his ability to keep his lives separate. . . He was Bianca on two Saturday nights a month, and otherwise, he pushed her out of sight, even though he thought about her, shopped for her, planned for her eventual return. Barry went to faculty meetings and family reunions and church, Bianca always lingering on the edge of his mind. She had her role to play and Barry had his. You could live a life this way, split. As long as you knew who was in charge.”
― Brit Bennett, The Vanishing Half

“Never let hatred give you an escort. It will drag your attention from all fortunes along the way.”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Frontpage: Leadership Insights from 21 Martin Luther King Jr. Thoughts

“Drag really is all about dipping into pop culture and then reshaping it into something else.”
― RuPaul, GuRu

“This costume she's been so desperate for me to wear. It's all right here, covering me up. [...] I'm in drag right now. I'm a homo right now. This is worse than a Halloween costume because its not funny.”
― M-E Girard, Girl Mans Up

“I ran anyway. And clutched his fingers as though he could drag me into a world where other kinds of games were possible. Hope lit my heart.”
― Holly Black, The Stolen Heir

“My childhood was a drag show!”
― Nuno Roque

“- Dragul meu, țin să-ți mărturisesc că atunci când nu ești lângă mine, am cel mai frumos sentiment din lume!
- Draga mea... cum așa?!
- Păi, nu este dorul cel mai frumos sentiment din lume?”
― Ana Truța

“As kids we were warned
against playing with gender
as if it were a plastic bag
THIS IS NOT A TOY
but here are some pictures
of you in drag
getting ready to head out to a party
or maybe that was the party”
― Mark Bibbins, 13th Balloon

“Feminists rejected the fetishised image of woman in pursuit of a woman's right to full human status, physical freedom and independence. [...] To understand the meaning of these clothes for men it is illuminating to look at [...] pornography. [...] [In one scenario] the young man was forced by the dominating woman to don the undergarments despite his protestations. [...] [In another scenario] the 'women's' clothing is used to degrade and humiliate a strong and independent woman who would never have worn such garments in her everyday life. If the very same kind of garments can be used by both men and women in rituals of sexual humiliation it would suggest that these clothes represent not 'women' but the crippling, restrictive and inferior role which has been assigned to woman in the gender role system.”
― Sheila Jeffreys, Anticlimax: A Feminist Perspective on the Sexual Revolution

“When it's time to go onstage,
know that you're not ready but
this is not about being ready,
it's not even about being fierce,
or fearless, it's about being free.”
― Dean Atta, The Black Flamingo

“But in that time the RuPaul idea was born, and people outside of my world were inspired to talk about me and androgyny and drag in a way that was unprecedented. Not long after that, the questions came: Why you? Drag had been around forever. Why had I been able to crack the code after so many false starts and almosts?”
― RuPaul, The House of Hidden Meanings: A Memoir

“Drag should be a delight for all the senses, Lady Lady always said.”
― Holly Stars, Murder in the Dressing Room

“Not long after that, the questions came: Why you? Drag had been around forever. Why had I been able to crack the code after so many false starts and almosts?
But I knew they would never understand the delicate choreography I’d done to make it all work. I’d mastered the art of naughty-lite: two spoonfuls of Diana Ross, a pinch of Cher, a shake of Dolly Parton, all sealed with Walt Disney’s family-friendliness. Before, I had been blurry—confusing, a thing that only some people could understand. Finally, I had snapped into focus, just in time for the whole world to see.
The eighties, with all its excess and opulence, had also been marred by darkness: the heaviness of crack cocaine, the AIDS epidemic, the crashes of S&Ls in the markets. There was a yearning for levity in the culture, the very same irreverence and sense of play that had animated me my whole life.
A window opened. I stepped through it.”
― RuPaul, The House of Hidden Meanings