"…gender is not sane. It's not sane to……" — Kate Bornstein
"…gender is not sane. It's not sane to call a rainbow black and white."
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18 Quotes by Kate Bornstein
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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…
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There's no such thing as hurting someone for their own good. There's only hurting someone for your own good.
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Disney will never make a movie about my life story, and that's a shame--I'd make a really cute animated creature.
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Drag queen is a gender like no other, and with practice I'd learned to rise to it.
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There's a simple way to look at gender: Once upon a time, someone drew a line in the sans of…
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I love the idea of being without an identity, it gives me a lot of room to play around; but…
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It doesn't really matter what a person decides to do, or how radically a person plays with gender. What matters,…
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Your life's work begins when your great joy meets the world's great hunger.
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The choice between two of something is not a choice at all, but rather the opportunity to subscribe to the…
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I was a lonely, frightened little fat kid who felt there was something deeply wrong with me because I didn't…
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Let's stop 'tolerating' or 'accepting' difference, as if we're so much better for not being different in the first place.…
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Is it a boy or a girl ?”. There is a great answer to that one going around : “We…
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