Tilda Swinton quote

[rm]

From an interview in the current issue of BlackBook, after being asked how her self-image changed when she became a mother:

TS: .... It also made me feel more like a woman than I ever thought I would, since I was a boy, really, for most of my life.

How were you a boy? What do you mean by that?

TS: Well, I was. I never was a girl, to be honest. I was a boy when I was growing up and I was sort of waiting to become a woman.

Can you go back, once you've become a woman, to being a boy?

TS: Oh. yes, because the wonderful thing is that you can be everything once you're a woman. Once you're a woman, you've got a free pass.

It is the cadence of her answers I like as much as anything.

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[kill.livejournal.com]

My grandfather used to tell stories about when he was a little girl. This reminds me of that, though it's so different.

[patashoqua.livejournal.com]

Mine too! My grandfather used to tell me he had been a beautiful little girl with golden curls until one day his nanny stopped to flirt with a sailor and some gypsies stole him from his perambulator and he was replaced with a horrible little boy with bushy black eyebrows.

[rm.livejournal.com]

Man, I wish my family were wacky in a cool way.

[schpahky.livejournal.com]

I love love love Tilda Swinton.

She has spoken about her boyness in other interviews but this is a very lovely way of putting it.

In a way I wish I'd read this when I was 15.