Abusers Quote by Patrick Califia

If your relationship with someone is based on your desire for them to change into something radically different, there's no real closeness there, no…

— Patrick Califia

As an activist, you gotta pick something that's particularly interesting to you and go for it - because there's no shortage of things to…

— Patrick Califia

This is one of the reasons we need to transition: people can't validate an identity they can't see.

— Patrick Califia

A lot of people who are depressed, I think, are suffering from blocked creativity.

— Patrick Califia

When it comes to your inner critic, my advice is to not take advice from someone who doesn't like you. That's like returning to…

— Patrick Califia

Prejudice usually can't survive close contact with the people who are supposed to be so despicable, which is why the propagandists for hate always…

— Patrick Califia

When you're hurting another person, past a certain point you're cracking them open and whatever's inside them gets all over you. So you should…

— Patrick Califia

By coming out to ourselves, we free up the energy we spent keeping a part of ourselves hidden.

— Patrick Califia

“I’m very fond of the concept of choice as the basis for sexual preference. This point of view is unpopular in an era in…

— Patrick Califia

The scars are a way of reminding me that the past is real. They are honorable.

— Patrick Califia

“I am not so much fun Anymore; Couldn’t carry the role of ingenue In a bucket, you say, laughing. And I want to punch…

— Patrick Califia

Responsibility without power is a really bad deal.

— Patrick Califia