When it comes to your inner critic, my advice is to not take advice from someone who doesn't like you. That's like returning to the perpetrator for healing after you've been abused. — Patrick Califia Copy Share Image
If your relationship with someone is based on your desire for them to change into something radically different, there's no real closeness there, no… — Patrick Califia Copy Share Image
As an activist, you gotta pick something that's particularly interesting to you and go for it - because there's no shortage of things to… — Patrick Califia Copy Share Image
This is one of the reasons we need to transition: people can't validate an identity they can't see. — Patrick Califia Copy Share Image
A lot of people who are depressed, I think, are suffering from blocked creativity. — Patrick Califia Copy Share Image
Boy lovers and the lesbians who have young lovers... are not child molesters. The child abusers are priests, teachers, therapists, cops and parents who… — Patrick Califia Copy Share Image
When it comes to your inner critic, my advice is to not take advice from someone who doesn't like you. That's like returning to… — Patrick Califia Copy Share Image
Prejudice usually can't survive close contact with the people who are supposed to be so despicable, which is why the propagandists for hate always… — Patrick Califia Copy Share Image
When you're hurting another person, past a certain point you're cracking them open and whatever's inside them gets all over you. So you should… — Patrick Califia Copy Share Image
By coming out to ourselves, we free up the energy we spent keeping a part of ourselves hidden. — Patrick Califia Copy Share Image
“I’m very fond of the concept of choice as the basis for sexual preference. This point of view is unpopular in an era in… — Patrick Califia Copy Share Image
The scars are a way of reminding me that the past is real. They are honorable. — Patrick Califia Copy Share Image
“I am not so much fun Anymore; Couldn’t carry the role of ingenue In a bucket, you say, laughing. And I want to punch… — Patrick Califia Copy Share Image