Top 33 Leslie Feinberg Quotes
#1. I began to feel the pleasure of the weightless state between here and there
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#3. I've been going to the library, looking up our history. There's a ton of it in anthropology books, a ton of it, Ruth. We haven't always been hated. Why didn't we grow up knowing that?
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#4. i know the difference between what i can't do and what i refuse to do!
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#5. Never underestimate the power of fiction to tell the truth.
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#6. some mistakes in life are not punishable, others teach you a lesson you never forget!
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#7. I wanted to thank you. If it wasn't for you, I'd never have known I had a right to be me.
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#8. People of all sexes have the right to explore femininity, masculinity-and the infinite variations between-without criticism or ridicule.
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#9. This is what courage is. It's not just living through the nightmare, it's doing something with it afterward. It's being brave enough to talk about it to other people. It's trying to organize to change things.
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#10. But very quickly I discovered that passing didn't just mean slipping below the surface, it meant being buried alive. I was still me on the inside, trapped in there with all my wounds and fears. But I was no longer me on the outside.
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#11. I live proudly in a body of my own design. I defend my right to be complex
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#12. If I'm not with a butch everyone just assumes I'm straight. It's like I'm passing too, against my will. I'm sick of the world thinking I'm straight. I've worked hard to be discriminated against as a lesbian
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#13. Strength, like height, is measured by who you're standin next to!
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#14. 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.
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#15. I kept yelling at them that you were a human being, that you mattered, and it was like they weren't even listening to me. I couldn't do anything to help you and I couldn't make them take care of you the way I wanted, you know?"
I nodded. I did know. And now I knew that Duffy did too.
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#16. Everybody's scared, but if you don't let your fears stop you, that's bravery!
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#17. 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?
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#18. Are you with women who only bleed monthly on their cycles?
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#19. I want to understand about change--I don't just want to be at the mercy of it. I feel like I'm waking up inside. I want to know about history. I have all this new information about people like me down through the ages, but I don't know anything about the ages.
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#20. But if theory is not the crystallized resin of experience, it ceases to be a guide to action.
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#21. Surrenderin is unimaginably more dangerous than struggling for survival!
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#22. Every day the men around me came to exercise their bodies; I came to exorcise my demons
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#23. ...wishing I could do everything in my life once as practice, and then go back and do it again.
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#24. I think girls and boys should be able to be any way they want to be without getting picked on.
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#25. My right to be me is tied with a thousand threads to your right to be you.
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#26. We have not always been forced to pass, to go underground, in order to work and live. We have a right to live openly and proudly ... when our lives are suppressed, everyone is denied an understanding of the rich diversity of sex and gender expression and experience that exist in human society.
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#27. The loneliness became more and more unbearable. I ached to be touched. I feared I was disappearing and I'd cease to exist if someone didn't touch me.
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#28. Who was I now - woman or man? That question could never be answered as long as those were the only choices; it could never be answered if it had to be asked.
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#29. I remembered Duffy's challenge. Imagine a world worth living in, a world worth fighting for. I closed my eyes and allowed my hopes to soar
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#30. From that moment on I was her butch and she was my femme.
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#31. It's a beauty one isn't born with, but must fight to construct at great sacrifice.
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#32. I felt as though I was rushing into a burning building to discover the ideas I needed for my own life.(239)
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#33. Gender is the poetry each of us makes out of the language we are taught.
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