Top 68 Feinberg Quotes
#1. I do work half time as a historian of medicine at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine, and I started my career with work in the 19th century.
Alice Dreger
#2. Zeev Feinberg parted from his own obligation and left Yaffa on the sofa, blushing about something he had just wispered to her. Now Zeev wanted to see what the goddess of luck had given his friend, and once again noted that the bitch invariably gives nuts to people who have no teeth.
Ayelet Gundar-Goshen
#3. I once heard [Gerald] Feinberg suggest that many of Manhattan's 1970s social problems could be solved by forbidding anyone who earned less than, say, $10,000 per year to live there. It had not occurred to him, apparently, that this excluded many of the people who worked at the university.
Emanuel Derman
#4. Try to want what you have, instead of spending your strength trying to get what you want." - ABRAHAM L. FEINBERG
Laura Doyle
#5. My right to be me is tied with a thousand threads to your right to be you.
Leslie Feinberg
#6. Are you with women who only bleed monthly on their cycles?
Leslie Feinberg
#7. Joy would not deny the hardship, but would choose to acknowledge and face it no matter what the outcome.
Margaret Feinberg
#8. I think girls and boys should be able to be any way they want to be without getting picked on.
Leslie Feinberg
#9. ...wishing I could do everything in my life once as practice, and then go back and do it again.
Leslie Feinberg
#10. I had been searching for joy in the relatively good times of life, now I had to find joy amidst darkness and agony.
Margaret Feinberg
#11. Joy emanates out of the abiding sense of God's fierce love for us.
Margaret Feinberg
#12. One of the greatest promises to a child of God is that this life is not the end of the story.
Margaret Feinberg
#13. Wide awake to the presence of God, I realized I had been so focused on asking why a good God allowed bad things to happen that I was missing out on the nearness of God all along. In becoming preoccupied with the why, I was missing the who.
Margaret Feinberg
#14. Every day the men around me came to exercise their bodies; I came to exorcise my demons
Leslie Feinberg
#15. Joy means holding on to hope in God regardless of the outcome. Declaring we will give up everything and entrust ourselves more fully and wholly to the One who holds all things together.
Margaret Feinberg
#16. And like an echo, God often uses the repetitive events and themes in daily life to get my attention and draw me closer to himself. - The Sacred Echo
Margaret Feinberg
#17. Surrenderin is unimaginably more dangerous than struggling for survival!
Leslie Feinberg
#18. But if theory is not the crystallized resin of experience, it ceases to be a guide to action.
Leslie Feinberg
#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.
Leslie Feinberg
#20. Gender is the poetry each of us makes out of the language we are taught.
Leslie Feinberg
#22. I cannot live the rest of my life without my husband. But I can live without him for one day.
Linda Feinberg
#23. 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.
Leslie Feinberg
#24. When we fight back with joy, we embrace a reality that is more real than what we're enduring and we awaken to the deepest reality of our identity as beloved, joyful children of God.
Margaret Feinberg
#25. 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.
Leslie Feinberg
#26. 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.
Leslie Feinberg
#27. God's wisdom, true wisdom, is essential to living the life we were designed to live. Apart from God and his wisdom, we can spend a lot of time and energy getting lost, or worse, asking for directions from people who only pretend to know the way.
Margaret Feinberg
#28. 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
Leslie Feinberg
#29. From that moment on I was her butch and she was my femme.
Leslie Feinberg
#30. It's a beauty one isn't born with, but must fight to construct at great sacrifice.
Leslie Feinberg
#31. I felt as though I was rushing into a burning building to discover the ideas I needed for my own life.(239)
Leslie Feinberg
#32. Sometimes you have to poke holes in the darkness until it bleeds light.
Margaret Feinberg
#33. Many of us say we want to experience God, but we don't look for his majesty. [Tweet this] We travel life's paths with our heads down, focused on the next step with our careers or families or retirement plans. But we don't really expect God to show up with divine wonder.
Margaret Feinberg
#36. The wonder of prayer is rediscovered in who we're speaking to. Prayer is a mystical event by which we get to talk to the Creator of all-the One who fashioned our world with a few words-knowing that God not only listens but answers.
Margaret Feinberg
#37. People of all sexes have the right to explore femininity, masculinity-and the infinite variations between-without criticism or ridicule.
Leslie Feinberg
#38. Most of us discover early on that it's safer to hide behind prayers that can't be measured, petitions so nebulous they don't require intervention from God.
Margaret Feinberg
#39. I call them sacred echoes because I noticed that throughout my relationships, daily life, and study, the same scripturally sound idea or phrase or word will keep reappearing until I can no longer avoid its presence. -The Sacred Echo
Margaret Feinberg
#40. God is constantly on the move. I cannot stay where I am and follow God at the same time; responding requires movement.
Margaret Feinberg
#41. I began to feel the pleasure of the weightless state between here and there
Leslie Feinberg
#43. When we fight back with joy, we awaken to the deepest reality of our identity as beloved, delightful children of God.
Margaret Feinberg
#44. More than whimsy, joy is a weapon we use to fight life's battles.
Margaret Feinberg
#45. 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?
Leslie Feinberg
#47. i know the difference between what i can't do and what i refuse to do!
Leslie Feinberg
#48. Never underestimate the power of fiction to tell the truth.
Leslie Feinberg
#49. As we come to the end of ourselves, we open the door to discovering the One who created us anew. The One who can whisper to us who we really are as we pilgrim toward our truest and deepest selves.
Margaret Feinberg
#50. some mistakes in life are not punishable, others teach you a lesson you never forget!
Leslie Feinberg
#51. I wanted to thank you. If it wasn't for you, I'd never have known I had a right to be me.
Leslie Feinberg
#52. You must learn to hush the demons that whisper, 'No one wants to read this. This has already been said. Your voice doesn't matter.' In the rare moments when the voices finally hush, you might hear the angels singing.
Margaret Feinberg
#53. To understand the seriousness of abortion, one must know the physiology of human development. Ignorance of these facts is in part why mothers are willing to have an abortion and the general public allows abortions on demand.
John S. Feinberg
#54. 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.
Leslie Feinberg
#55. People today know a lot more about how to become a Christian than about how to be one.
Margaret Feinberg
#56. 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.
Leslie Feinberg
#57. I live proudly in a body of my own design. I defend my right to be complex
Leslie Feinberg
#58. When journeying with God some of the best parts of any pilgrimage are the detours.
Margaret Feinberg
#59. Prayer might not change things, but it will change my perspective of things. Prayer might not change the past, but inevitably, it changes the present.
Margaret Feinberg
#61. 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
Leslie Feinberg
#62. Strength, like height, is measured by who you're standin next to!
Leslie Feinberg
#63. 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.
Leslie Feinberg
#65. Worry is a subtle way of telling God that He's fallen asleep at the wheel and that things aren't under His authority, but ours.
Margaret Feinberg
#66. 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.
Leslie Feinberg
#67. Everybody's scared, but if you don't let your fears stop you, that's bravery!
Leslie Feinberg
#68. 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?
Leslie Feinberg
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