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title: "2 Butch Quotes By Leslie Feinberg"
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> [If I'm not with a butch everyone just assumes I'm straight. It's like I'm passing too, against my will. I'm sick of the world thinking I'm straight. I've worked hard to be discriminated against as a lesbian](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leslie-feinberg/if-i-m-not-with-a-butch-everyone-just-assumes-i-m-straight-it-s-like/)

[Leslie Feinberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leslie-feinberg/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/baf/leslie-feinberg-23918_assuming_if-i-m-not-with-a-butch-everyone-just-as_2022288.jpg)

> [“From that moment on I was her butch and she was my femme.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leslie-feinberg/from-that-moment-on-i-was-her-butch-and-she-was-my-femme/)

[Leslie Feinberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leslie-feinberg/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a64/leslie-feinberg-23918_butch_from-that-moment-on-i-was-her-butch-and_2652319.jpg)

## Other authors on Butch

## More by Leslie Feinberg

> [“Strength, like height, is measured by who you're standing next to.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leslie-feinberg/strength-like-height-is-measured-by-who-you-re-standing-next-to/)

[Leslie Feinberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leslie-feinberg/)

> [People of all sexes have the right to explore femininity, masculinity-and the infinite variations between-without criticism or ridicule.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leslie-feinberg/people-of-all-sexes-have-the-right-to-explore-femininity-masculinity/)

[Leslie Feinberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leslie-feinberg/)

> [You're more than just neither, honey. There's other ways to be than either-or. It's not so simple. Otherwise there wouldn't be so many people…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leslie-feinberg/you-re-more-than-just-neither-honey-there-s-other-ways-to-be-than/)

[Leslie Feinberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leslie-feinberg/)

> [I didn't want to be different. I longed to be everything grownups wanted, so they would love me. I followed all their rules, tried…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leslie-feinberg/i-didn-t-want-to-be-different-i-longed-to-be-everything-grownups/)

[Leslie Feinberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leslie-feinberg/)

> [Are you with women who only bleed monthly on their cycles?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leslie-feinberg/are-you-with-women-who-only-bleed-monthly-on-their-cycles/)

[Leslie Feinberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leslie-feinberg/)

> [My right to be me is tied with a thousand threads to your right to be you.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leslie-feinberg/my-right-to-be-me-is-tied-with-a-thousand-threads-to-your-right-to-be/)

[Leslie Feinberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leslie-feinberg/)

> [surrenderin is unimaginably more dangerous than struggling for survival!](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leslie-feinberg/surrenderin-is-unimaginably-more-dangerous-than-struggling-for/)

[Leslie Feinberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leslie-feinberg/)

> [I reserve my right to be complex.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leslie-feinberg/i-reserve-my-right-to-be-complex/)

[Leslie Feinberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leslie-feinberg/)

> [Gender is the poetry each of us makes out of the language we are taught.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leslie-feinberg/gender-is-the-poetry-each-of-us-makes-out-of-the-language-we-are/)

[Leslie Feinberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leslie-feinberg/)

> [I began to feel the pleasure of the weightless state between here and there](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leslie-feinberg/i-began-to-feel-the-pleasure-of-the-weightless-state-between-here-and/)

[Leslie Feinberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leslie-feinberg/)

> [“Some mistakes in life are not punishable, others teach you a lesson you never forget.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leslie-feinberg/some-mistakes-in-life-are-not-punishable-others-teach-you-a-lesson/)

[Leslie Feinberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leslie-feinberg/)

> [strength, like height, is measured by who you're standin next to!](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leslie-feinberg/strength-like-height-is-measured-by-who-you-re-standin-next-to/)

[Leslie Feinberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leslie-feinberg/)

> [I think girls and boys should be able to be any way they want to be without getting picked on.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leslie-feinberg/i-think-girls-and-boys-should-be-able-to-be-any-way-they-want-to-be/)

[Leslie Feinberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leslie-feinberg/)

> [“But if theory is not the crystallized resin of experience, it ceases to be a guide to action.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leslie-feinberg/but-if-theory-is-not-the-crystallized-resin-of-experience-it-ceases/)

[Leslie Feinberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leslie-feinberg/)

> [We have not always been forced to pass, to go underground, in order to work and live. We have a right to live openly…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leslie-feinberg/we-have-not-always-been-forced-to-pass-to-go-underground-in-order-to/)

[Leslie Feinberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leslie-feinberg/)

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