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

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.

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!

You don't understand anything until you learn it more than one way.

Freedom goes hand-in-hand with mutual respect.

There are a lot of bad republicans; there are no good democrats.

Human beings are the only creatures on earth that allow their children to come back home.

For me, the big chore is always the same: how to begin a sentence, how to continue it, how to complete it.

She smiled, a moving childish smile that was like all the lost youth in the world.

Who longs in solitude to live, Ah! soon his wish will gain: Men hope and love, men get and give, and leave him to his pain.

Is That All There Is?

What you did in the past is how you got to today. What you do today is how you will get to the future.

I don't think there's a thing I own that I will ever get the benefit of except through doing things with it.