35 quotes found
“No one has the right to demand that your body be something other than what it is.”
“One day, while life is being incredible and interesting, Im going to die.”
“We’re not broken. We’re not in the wrong bodies. We’re not inadequate. We’re not lesser. We’re not unwanted. We’re not fraudulent. We’re not undesirable. That’s all just a set of lies we tell to so...”
“Relinquishing control to another person is like death: it’s only scary until it finally happens.”
“It’s the process of being minimized, invalidated, silenced. It’s the process of being subjected to whatever someone else thinks I owe them. It’s the process of being used, examined, explored, and t...”
“Most days, I’ve got this impermanence thing down just great. It doesn’t bother me; what’s to bother? Most days, I sit comfortably with the knowledge that I’ll die alone, and I feel nothing so stron...”
“All I’m saying is that I want you to be happy. I don’t care how it happens, or what it takes to facilitate it. I don’t care if it happens with me or without me. I don’t care if you use me to get th...”
“Let’s be very clear about this, asshole: I’ve been a woman in Arkansas. I know damn well what it means when a man says to me 'Calm down.' Being raped comes next, and that’s a fact I’m never going t...”
“We’re all just people making decisions and accepting consequences as we march toward an impending and inevitable death.”
“If it’s convenient to love you, you’re lying to someone about who you are or what you need.”
“Fighting makes us feel alive, until it kills us. If it doesn’t kill us, the pain of sitting alone with ourselves, quietly, under constant assault by our own thoughts and memories of war can easily ...”
“There is, in fact, no safeword for chemical burns under one’s fingernails.”
“If you’re lying to everyone you know, including yourself, at every possible turn, is a little upheaval really the worst that could happen to your life right now?”
“There is a certain loveliness, I think, to performing deep cleaning in one’s underwear on a beautiful summer day.”
“One day, while life is being incredible and interesting, I’m going to die.”
