Janet Mock Quotes

#1. Be stingy with your time and spend it in spaces that fill you up.

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#2. Kindness and compassion are sisters but not twins. One you can buy, the other is priceless.

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#3. My hope is that feminist, racial justice, reproductive rights and LGBT movements build a coalition that centers on the lives of women who lead intersectional lives and too often fall in between the cracks of these narrow mission statements.

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#4. This house was the only home he'd ever had, and he'd shared it with his mother up until two years before, when Dad and Chad moved

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#5. People often describe the journey of transsexual people as a passage through the sexes, from manhood to womanhood, from male to female, from boy to girl.

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#6. When Aaron arrived at my place - a ground-floor studio fitting my full-size bed, desk, and TV - he came bearing gifts: The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron and two red tension balls. "I figure they'll help you relax and write," he said. We watched my favorite relationship

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#7. According to the media, trans women were subject to pain and punch lines. Instead of proclaiming that I was not a plot device to be laughed at, I spent my younger years internalizing and fighting those stereotypes.

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#8. Our visibility shouldn't be subject to such extreme circumstances.

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#9. Trans women of color dangerously fall in between the cracks of racial justice, feminist and LGbt movements.

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#10. My belief system operated on the notion that the good things in my life were a universal hiccup where doom surely loomed.

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#11. This pervasive idea that trans women deserve violence needs to be abolished. It's a socially sanctioned practice of blaming the victim. We must begin blaming our culture, which stigmatizes, demeans, and strips trans women of their humanity.

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#12. Shop for what we wanted, then hunt for garments with blue tags, removing them with the staple remover and restapling the tags to our garments. Sickening,

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#13. He's trying to do info-tainment. He doesn't really want to talk about trans issues, he wants to sensationalize my life and not really talk about the work that I do and what the purpose of me writing this book was about.

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#14. The crux of our conflict lay in the fact that we each couldn't be who we wanted the other to be.

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#15. There in the fresh young darkness close together. Pheoby eager to feel and do through Janie, but hating to show her zest for fear it might be thought mere curiosity. Janie full of that oldest human longing - self-revelation. - ZORA NEALE HURSTON, THEIR EYES WERE WATCHING GOD

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#16. It is not a woman's duty to disclose that she's trans to every person she meets. This is not safe for a myriad of reasons. We must shift the burden of coming out from trans women, and accusing them of hiding or lying, and focus on why it is unsafe for women to be trans.

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#17. What keeps me going is that quest for just being able to be present and be myself. Not for people, but for me.

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#18. I've heard parents say all they want is "the best" for their children, but the best is subjective and anchored by how they know and learned the world.

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#19. Part. These elements, though small and insignificant to passersby, made up my girlhood,

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#20. Those parts of yourself that you desperately want to hide and destroy will gain power over you. The best thing to do is face and own them, because they are forever a part of you.

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#21. Frankly, I'm not responsible for other people's perceptions and what they consider real or fake. We must abolish the entitlement that deludes us int believing that we have the right to make assumptions about people's identities and project those assumptions onto their genders and bodies.

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#22. We have different experiences, but trans women have experiences that do parallel with the whole fabric of what womanhood is. Embracing trans women, listening to their stories, enriches what womanhood is. It expands it and makes it even better.

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