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

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

And how delightful other people's emotions were!-much more delightful than their ideas, it seemed to him. One's own soul, and the passions of one's friends-those were the fascinating things in life.

First, you need to realize everything you thought you knew about yourself, about me, is a lie.

I do look for the good in everyone. I also give them a chance to be their best, and I try to cope with my disappointment when they're not

If you make more appointments with quality people, you will have less disappointments with non-quality people.

I fully support a national health care program for the U.S.

I think subconsciously because of my upbringing, I was very aware of values and morals and that's why I experienced the occasional guilt with my habits.

Those who succeed and do not push on to greater failure are the spiritual middle-classers.

It may be romantic to search for the salves of society's ills in slow-moving rustic surroundings, or among innocent, unspoiled provincials, if such exist, but it is a waste of time.

A fluent writer always seems more talented than he is. To write well, one needs a natural felicity and an acquired difficulty.

I am not Captain Save-A-Ho; I can only save one at a time, and that's me!