Abigail Tarttelin Quotes

#1. Tonight, there's no one here to force myself to feel okay for, to smile or hold it together for, and I feel pretty bad.

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#2. Maybe golden people tarnish fast.

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#3. It's an arbitrary thing if you're born with an XX or XY chromosome, but it can determine your experience of the world. It's about whether you are physically intimidating vs. being physically intimidated. It determines whether you are the one to take an active role in sex and society.

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#4. Sometimes things aren't what you think they are, and even when things seem really bad, it can work out.

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#5. So I got dressed up kind of Girl With The Dragon Tattoo-y goth. As I head out, I say bye to Mum and Dad, and Mum says, 'You look cool', just as Dad says, 'You look terrifying.

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#6. It takes strength to be proud of yourself and to accept yourself when you know that you have something out of the ordinary about you.

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#7. The boy I love is a broken idea.

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#8. Settling for not-so-bad sounds okay. But, you know, it's hard when you tried so much to make life really good.

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#9. It is obvious, by the sounds of the dizzy, hysterical laughter that you start to exhale when you're an adult and you have very few friends and only rarely have fun, that they are caught in a bubble of their own awesomeness and won't be leaving the living room any time soon.

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#10. Someone dehumanises you by violating your child and every human thought you had for them is broken, undermined, then gone.

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#11. I have heard it said that children are getting older. I think adults are getting younger.

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#12. In the end, how [is] anyone any different from a 'normal' person? If you love someone, you love them. It doesn't matter where they came from or if they're a boy or a girl, or if you fight, or if they're weird, or if they find it difficult to communicate with you; you just fucking love them.

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#13. I personally believe that gender equality underlines every other equality, and certainly the issue of sexuality. For instance, if we didn't distinguish between gender, in terms of giving different genders disparate values and attributes, what problem would we have with two men loving each other?

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#14. #ToTheGirls2016 Value yourself, your voice, your body, your opinions, your dreams, your pride, your ego. You have a RIGHT to take up space.

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#15. The thing is, sometimes you have to be brave and say who you are and how you feel. Even if you don't know how you're going to do it. You just have to take a deep breath, and decide to start.

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