"I have this idea that every time we……" — Kate Bornstein
"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 come up with new names for ourselves, and that the names we give ourselves must no longer reflect a fear of being labeled outsiders, must no longer bind us to a system that would rather see us dead."
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Kate Bornstein
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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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No cord or cable can draw so forcibly, or bind so fast, as love can do with a single thread.
— Robert Burton
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Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.
— Luc de Clapiers
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If ever household affections and loves are graceful things, they are graceful in the poor. The ties that bind the…
— Charles Dickens
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It is strangely absurd to suppose that a million of human beings, collected together, are not under the same moral…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Friendship above all ties does bind the heart; And faith in friendship is the noblest part.
— Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery
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Religion divides us, while it is our human characteristics that bind us to each other.
— Hermann Bondi
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All authority belongs to the people... In questions of power let no more be heard of confidence in man, but…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Free government is founded in jealousy, and not in confidence; it is jealousy, and not confidence, which prescribes limited constitutions,…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Teach us to pray that we may cause The enemy to flee, That we his evil power may bind, His…
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Therefore, a prudent ruler ought not to keep faith when by so doing it would be against his interest, and…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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Society is held together by our need; we bind it together with legend, myth, coercion, fearing that without it we…
— James A. Baldwin
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Most of us have lost that sense of unity of biosphere and humanity which would bind and reassure us all…
— Gregory Bateson
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