A biography for Rain Dovehasn’t been written yet.
“Gender is a shackle.”
“Fortunately, unlike my teachers and classmates, my parents never forced gender roles or even a ended identity on me. I grew up on a farm, so all that mattered was working hard.”
“You don't see Victoria's Secret women running around with even short hair. That's too crazy for them.”
“During my career path, I've experienced first-hand what people deem as beautiful. It's not me. It's not most people. It's limited and small.”
“What it means to look like a woman or man changes regionally - from mannerisms to clothes to posture to makeup to even your vocals - so I just observe, and I replicate.”
“I identify with my body, but I don't identify it as male or female; I just identify it as a vehicle to help me bring my awareness around the world.”
“I've been told I'd make a great parts model.”
“You could ask a lot of people in my childhood, and they'd say I was very prudish about showing off skin.”
“I always had this attitude of, 'They don't get to tell me how I live my life.'”
“The gender thing doesn't exist; it's a social construct you don't have to fit into.”
“I feel more comfortable in men's clothing, and I'm a lot of more convincing as a boy than as a gendered female. But with women's clothing, I feel more empowered.”
“There's something so empowering about knowing I can pick up an axe and split a piece of wood.”
“The me that is me is not my body. It's an awareness and an experience.”
“Victoria's Secret should highlight real women that actually purchase their clothing. I would love for them to start featuring more real bodies and diverse women. Victoria's Secret has the ability to tell people, 'It's okay,' when they wake up in the morning. They have the ability to change lives.”
“To be existing at all is beautiful simply because of how complicated and unexplainable being alive really is.”
“My body is sometimes this thing I look at and think, 'What strange, alien thing grew around my consciousness?' It's like this weird fungus that's just there.”
“Part of the beauty of Victoria's Secret modeling is that they are called 'Angels' for a reason - because they're aesthetics are supposed to be unobtainable. But so are mine. No one could ever be me. Look exactly as I do. Be exactly as I am.”
“I went out to California; I was pursuing my degree in genetic engineering and civil law at U.C. Berkeley, and I had to pay my way through school. I eventually got a scholarship, which was great, but in the beginning, it was very hard.”
“Some people say there's a reason that Victoria's Secret wouldn't put me or any woman who doesn't fit within a certain spectrum on the runway.”
“The way woman is defined by marketable modeling and commercial standards... It makes me feel alien to myself.”