Kate Bornstein Quotes
The choice between two of something is not a choice at all, but rather the opportunity to subscribe to the value system which holds the two presented choices as mutually exclusive alternatives.
There's no such thing as hurting someone for their own good. There's only hurting someone for your own good.
It's easy to fictionalize an issue when you're not aware of the many ways in which you are privileged by it.
‘Is it a boy or a girl?’ There is a great answer to that one going around: ‘We don’t know; it hasn’t told us yet’.
Disney will never make a movie about my life story, and that's a shame--I'd make a really cute animated creature.
Drag queen is a gender like no other, and with practice I'd learned to rise to it.
When you're a Scientologist it's like the movie Goodfellas, where the gangsters hang out with only other gangsters. We only hung out with each other, so we knew we were saving the world.
There are Easter eggs in every book I've ever written. I think in the first one I called Scientology "Diabology," but I was scared, so I didn't tell many people what it really meant.
I love the idea of being without an identity, it gives me a lot of room to play around; but it makes me dizzy, having nowhere to hang my hat.
The current transgender movement is composed of a great number of factions, divided by those old favorites of class, race, age, language, region, and nationality.
I know and know of more than a few MTF's (male-to-female trannies) who've developed strange cancers. Myself, I've got a nice little case of Chronic Lymphocitic Leukemia (CLL).
When we talk about my gender as though it were a performance, we let the audience - with all their expectations, prejudices, and presumptions - completely off the hook. - Scott Turner Schofield