Leslie Feinberg

“Strength, like height, is measured by who you're standing next to.”

— Leslie Feinberg

People of all sexes have the right to explore femininity, masculinity-and the infinite variations between-without criticism or ridicule.

— 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…

— 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…

— Leslie Feinberg

Are you with women who only bleed monthly on their cycles?

— Leslie Feinberg

My right to be me is tied with a thousand threads to your right to be you.

— Leslie Feinberg

surrenderin is unimaginably more dangerous than struggling for survival!

— Leslie Feinberg

I reserve my right to be complex.

— Leslie Feinberg

Gender is the poetry each of us makes out of the language we are taught.

— Leslie Feinberg

I began to feel the pleasure of the weightless state between here and there

— Leslie Feinberg

“Some mistakes in life are not punishable, others teach you a lesson you never forget.”

— Leslie Feinberg

strength, like height, is measured by who you're standin next to!

— Leslie Feinberg

I think girls and boys should be able to be any way they want to be without getting picked on.

— Leslie Feinberg

“But if theory is not the crystallized resin of experience, it ceases to be a guide to action.”

— Leslie Feinberg

We have not always been forced to pass, to go underground, in order to work and live. We have a right to…

— Leslie Feinberg

everybody's scared, but if you don't let your fears stop you, that's bravery!

— Leslie Feinberg

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…

— Leslie Feinberg

“I know the difference between what I can't do and what I refuse to do.”

— Leslie Feinberg

“Surrendering is unimaginably more dangerous than struggling for survival.”

— Leslie Feinberg

It’s a beauty one isn’t born with, but must fight to construct at great sacrifice.

— Leslie Feinberg

“From that moment on I was her butch and she was my femme.”

— Leslie Feinberg

“I felt as though I was rushing into a burning building to discover the ideas I needed for my own life.”

— Leslie Feinberg

More exists among human beings than can be answered by the simplistic question I'm hit with every day of my life: "Are…

— Leslie Feinberg

I live proudly in a body of my own design. I defend my right to be complex

— Leslie Feinberg

I learned that strength, like height, is measured by who you're standing next to.

— Leslie Feinberg