Torrey Peters

Everybody benefits when digital books are accessible.

— Torrey Peters

Often people detransition because life as a trans person is very difficult.

— Torrey Peters

When I'm open to beauty's true power, I believe it changes me for the better.

— Torrey Peters

I think that something can be boring and still hurt your pride.

— Torrey Peters

It was really interesting to talk about the things I cared about in logger slang.

— Torrey Peters

In reading, you become these characters that are different from you.

— Torrey Peters

People are going to make mistakes no matter what because that's what being human is.

— Torrey Peters

I have a lot of sympathy for people who detransition.

— Torrey Peters

For me, there's always been a question of being trans and doing trans. Whether or not you're living as a trans woman,…

— Torrey Peters

A lot of writing is everybody being revealed, but the reader should feel like only they are being revealed.

— Torrey Peters

When I start working early, I write things that I wouldn't if all my defences were up; I discover the emotional core…

— Torrey Peters

I used to feel ashamed to want a family, because I'd read lots of queer theory that says, 'The family is the…

— Torrey Peters

One of the things that is very uncomfortable to talk about with other trans women is that not everybody's transition is the…

— Torrey Peters

I don't have any tech skills; I don't have any coding skills. If I'd been trying to get a job as a…

— Torrey Peters

I don't think a lot of the experiences of transness are unique to being trans - there are all sorts of people…

— Torrey Peters

We're actually all constantly, even in minor ways, making choices to confirm or affirm the gender that we want to have.

— Torrey Peters

I am going to lose my fanbase and say that Jonathan Franzen's 'Crossroads' is very good. One of my favourite writers is…

— Torrey Peters

Why can't we talk about regret when it comes to transition in the same way that we talk about regret with everything…

— Torrey Peters

As a writer, I'm not just competing with other prose writers, I'm competing with TV. So I think a lot about the…

— Torrey Peters

My mom promised herself that when she could afford a fur coat, she'd buy one, to take pleasure in what had been…

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I love my friends. I think they're wonderful people, but I'm still constantly baffled by the choices that they make. I'm sure…

— Torrey Peters

There are black trans writers, there are Latina trans writers who are all capable of telling their own story. They don't need…

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The ways that I began to relate to other women as a woman wasn't around 'We're so fierce,' or something like that,…

— Torrey Peters

When I was transitioning, I assumed that cis woman had it down somehow, that they'd had this childhood and they understood what…

— Torrey Peters

I'm obsessed with this book 'Independent People,' by Halldor Laxness.

— Torrey Peters

Weird, for me, is a good term. Freaky and weird, I think of them as positive descriptors.

— Torrey Peters

If I'm given a platform, I have to take it and try to share it as best I can.

— Torrey Peters

A lot of writers write for an audience that's going to understand them.

— Torrey Peters

No group of people who share a political identity march in lockstep.

— Torrey Peters

Certainly, not all trans people like my writing.

— Torrey Peters

The things trans people feel are things cis people feel.

— Torrey Peters

Franzen and I are both Midwesterners, so there's a shared sensibility there.

— Torrey Peters

I think hanging out is the best incubation for cultural creation.

— Torrey Peters

I actually think that trans lives are pretty understandable.

— Torrey Peters

The times that I personally considered detransition haven't been where I was like, 'Did I miscategorise these feelings?'

— Torrey Peters

Motherhood is the hardest thing for a trans woman to get, if she didn't have a family when she transitioned.

— Torrey Peters

One did not waltz around in fur in the '90s without the risk of being shamed or even spray-painted.

— Torrey Peters

I think I'm okay at talking about trans issues. I'm okay at it. But I think I'm good at fiction. And I'm…

— Torrey Peters

It doesn't matter if you're trans or not, if some guy is after a woman and all they can talk about is…

— Torrey Peters

If you're a femme woman in a hardware store and someone won't let you pick up a hammer, the work of gendering…

— Torrey Peters