"My most prized possession was my lanyard of……" — Janet Mock
"My most prized possession was my lanyard of Lip Smackers I tore it out of the confines of the paper package, which read “all the flavor of being a girl.”.. In the car, I draped the black lanyard around my neck with a single green plastic balm dangling. I proudly dangled my girlhood in all its fruitiness. It cost only $2.99."
—
Janet Mock
★
★
★
★
★
0.0 avg (0 ratings)
17 Quotes by Janet Mock
Janet Mock has 17 quotes on this site.
A few more worth reading:
-
Sometimes people try to destroy you, precisely because they recognize your power - not because they don't see it, but…
-
We have different experiences, but trans women have experiences that do parallel with the whole fabric of what womanhood is.…
-
I believe that telling our stories, first to ourselves and then to one another and the world, is a revolutionary…
-
This pervasive idea that trans women deserve violence needs to be abolished. It’s a socially sanctioned practice of blaming the…
-
Your disrespect for me is apparent. You never respected me when I think about it and you never liked me.…
-
Self-definition and self-determination is about the many varied decisions that we make to compose and journey toward ourselves, about the…
-
According to the media, trans women were subject to pain and punch lines. Instead of proclaiming that I was not…
-
Femininity in general is seen as frivolous. People often say feminine people are doing “the most”, meaning that to don…
-
It is not a woman’s duty to disclose that she’s trans to every person she meets. This is not safe…
-
Becoming is the action that births our womanhood, rather than passive act of being born (an act none of us…
-
Be stingy with your time and spend it in spaces that fill you up.
-
My hope is that feminist, racial justice, reproductive rights and LGBT movements build a coalition that centers on the lives…
See all 17 quotes by Janet Mock »
More All Quotes
This quote is filed under All Quotes,
one of 128,558 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
-
Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally…
— Hannah Arendt
-
No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our…
— Hannah Arendt
-
The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all…
— Hannah Arendt
-
The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes…
— Hannah Arendt
-
Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of…
— Hannah Arendt
-
We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and…
— Hannah Arendt
-
I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is…
— Pietro Aretino
-
We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace.
— Jean-Bertrand Aristide
-
The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela,…
— Jean-Bertrand Aristide
-
As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we…
— Jean-Bertrand Aristide
-
Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
— Aristophanes
-
A friend to all is a friend to none.
— Aristotle
See all 128,558 All Quotes »