Parents have to understand: if your kid isn't you, don't blame the kid.

Gender is between your ears and not between your legs.

I always wanted to shave. It is a very natural process. For my birthday I got a lot of shaving stuff.

When I realised I was transgender I was so afraid of what my transition would do to everyone else in my life and how they would react to it and would I be rejected?

I thought, transgender people are much worse off than I am. That's why they're willing to risk everything to be who they are. But the older I got, the harder it got to stay in my body.

I don't have the luxury of doing things privately.

I came out around 25 publicly.

I had felt uncomfortable as a woman my whole life.

I felt like one of the boys. My friends were boys. In school I related to boys.

A lot of parents never speak to their transgender kids again that's not the case in my family.

People who don't have gender dysphoria aren't going to catch it by watching me dance on television.

Bookish people, who are often maladroit people, persist in thinking they can master any subtlety so long as it's been shaped into acceptable expository prose.

You could never be certain what you would find in a book that had spent time with someone else.

If you know who you are, it reduces your fear of trials

People think I am younger then I really am, because I act so immature.

My gut is telling me you're innocent." His gaze went to the gun and then back to her face. "Relatively innocent.

My father said there were two kinds of people in the world: givers and takers. The takers may eat better, but the givers sleep better.

I do what I do because there's nothing else I can do.

I love Chicago, but I didn't think I had enough soul to be a Cubs fan.

Party domination and State leadership are concepts incompatible with one another.

It is a tiresome way of speaking, when you should despatch the business, to beat about the bush.