Kate Bornstein Quotes

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• I know I'm not a man-about that much I'm very clear, and I've come to the conclusion that I'm probably not a woman either, at…
• There's no such thing as hurting someone for their own good. There's only hurting someone for your own good.
• Disney will never make a movie about my life story, and that's a shame--I'd make a really cute animated creature.
• Drag queen is a gender like no other, and with practice I'd learned to rise to it.
• There's a simple way to look at gender: Once upon a time, someone drew a line in the sans of culture and proclaimed with great…
• I love the idea of being without an identity, it gives me a lot of room to play around; but it makes me dizzy, having…
• It doesn't really matter what a person decides to do, or how radically a person plays with gender. What matters, I think, is how aware…
• Your life's work begins when your great joy meets the world's great hunger.
• The choice between two of something is not a choice at all, but rather the opportunity to subscribe to the value system which holds the…
• I was a lonely, frightened little fat kid who felt there was something deeply wrong with me because I didn't feel like I was the…
• Let's stop 'tolerating' or 'accepting' difference, as if we're so much better for not being different in the first place. Instead, let's celebrate difference, because…
• Is it a boy or a girl ?”. There is a great answer to that one going around : “We don’t know ; it hasn’t…
• …gender is not sane. It's not sane to call a rainbow black and white.
• I have this idea that every time we discover that the names we're being called are somehow keeping us less than free, we need to…
• I see fashion as a proclamation or manifestation of identity, so, as long as identities are important, fashion will continue to be important. The link…
• The first question we usually ask new parents is : “Is it a boy or a girl ?”. There is a great answer to that…
• It's easy to fictionalize an issue when you're not aware of the many ways in which you are privileged by it.
• No matter how your world falls apart-and honey, that's what happens: we all build ourselves a world, and then it falls apart-but no matter how…

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