Appearances Quotes in The Danish Girl

How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)

Quote #7

Einar was a man with suspicious stains on his clothes. (13.25)

Early on, Einar is happy with his own identity. Well, if not happy, he's at least satisfied. But he begins to get more and more concerned with how he looks to other people, and he wants to look like a woman to them so he can feel more like a woman himself.

Quote #8

"He came to see me, and the first thing I noticed—how could I not?—was that he had breasts bigger than many teenage girls. […] I discovered he was both male and female." (16.37)

It is lucky that Greta is able to find a doctor who once met a man similar to Einar—a man who looked female and wanted to continue on a surgical path to look more like a woman.

Quote #9

"Do I look like Lili?" Einar said. "Do I look like a woman to you?" (17.73)

Einar is being defensive here, but deep inside, he desperately wants the answer to be yes. He wants to look like a woman all the time now, and in order to do that, he needs to shed his Einar suit.