Leslie Feinberg Quotes

Gender is the poetry each of us makes out of the language we are taught.

My right to be me is tied with a thousand threads to your right to be you.

You're more than just neither, honey. There's other ways to be than either-or. It's not so simple. Otherwise there wouldn't be so many people who don't fit.

surrenderin is unimaginably more dangerous than struggling for survival!

I reserve my right to be complex.

It’s a beauty one isn’t born with, but must fight to construct at great sacrifice.

I think girls and boys should be able to be any way they want to be without getting picked on.

More exists among human beings than can be answered by the simplistic question I'm hit with every day of my life: "Are you a man or a woman?

I live proudly in a body of my own design. I defend my right to be complex

I began to feel the pleasure of the weightless state between here and there

everybody's scared, but if you don't let your fears stop you, that's bravery!

I learned that strength, like height, is measured by who you're standing next to.

Are you with women who only bleed monthly on their cycles?

Everybody’s scared, but if you don’t let your fears stop you, that’s bravery.