Quotes About Intersex

#1. While there is no shame in being gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender or intersex - or even straight (but not narrow) - there is most certainly shame and dishonor in being a homophobe, a transphobe and a bigot.

Christina Engela

#2. We now know that sex is complicated enough that we have to admit nature doesn't draw the line for us between male and female, or between male and intersex and female and intersex; we actually draw that line on nature.

Alice Dreger

#3. Given the cultural barriers to intersex conversation, the amazing thing is that we would even expect women and men to have anything to say to each other for more than ten minutes at a stretch.

Barbara Ehrenreich

#4. Illium grinned, unrepentant. "Want to try again? I'll move extra slow - you are both so much older, after all." The last words were a conspiratorial whisper.
Galen glanced at Raphael. "How has he survived this long?"
"No one can catch him.

Nalini Singh

#5. Jesus, Jess, it would be nice if you stayed out of life-and-death scenarios for five minutes.

Amanda Carlson

#6. 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?

Abigail Tarttelin

#7. Bodies are not only biological phenomena but also complex social creations onto which meanings have been variously composed and imposed according to time and space.

Katrina Karkazis

#8. Sometimes I don't know what I am. But what I would like to be on the outside -- what I want other people to see -- is a girl.

Alyssa Brugman

#9. Do you want me to lick you again?

Alyssa Brugman

#10. I was a bartender at a Pizzeria Uno's for nine years. The people I worked with were amazing, but it was quite possibly the most miserable time of my life.

Bobby Moynihan

#11. I could still feel the echo of his hand on mine.

I. W. Gregorio

#12. Oh! To live alone, always alone, in the midst of the crowd that surrounds me, without a word of love ever coming to gladden my soul, without a friendly hand reaching out to me!

Herculine Barbin

#13. We're a group of people whose misunderstanding of each other is only topped by people's misunderstanding of us.

Thea Hillman

#14. When I'm writing, I mean what I'm saying - there's a lot of me in each song.

Imelda May

#15. She did not use it at all well mostly.

Miley Cyrus

#16. I'm never going to be happy, but I could get close now, I think. I could be almost normal. I could have a friend.

Alyssa Brugman

#17. When I was a kid, the high point of the day was to go to the mailbox and see if any mail came for me, and I'm still stuck in that mode.

Jim Beaver

#18. screw that gender essentialism bullshit, men have as much of a right to care about clothes as women. Girls can like sports and cars and guns. So why does it even matter if you identify as a girl, a boy or as neither?

I. W. Gregorio

#19. 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.

Abigail Tarttelin

#20. Honey, there is no one right way to eat cannelloni.

Alyssa Brugman

#21. That's my wish for our community, as it were, that during this very confusing and amazing time, we be gentle with ourselves, and with each other.

Thea Hillman

#22. Why insult the door's purpose by locking it? is a favorite kender expression.

Margaret Weis

#23. The common thread from all those stories was that talking helped, and listening, and time. One day I would find my own place. I couldn't run there, though, because it didn't exist yet; I had to build it myself, out of forgiveness, truth, and terrifying gestures of friendship.

I. W. Gregorio

#24. If there's a place you should be able to put yourself first, it's in your own sexual fantasies.

Alyssa Brugman

#25. I can understand why you would want to be literally out of your own heard, because being inside your own head is unbearable.

Alyssa Brugman

#26. Only as He is faithful will His covenants stand and His promises be honored. Only as we have complete assurance that He is faithful may we live in peace and look forward with assurance to the life to come.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

#27. Love isn't a choice. You fall for the person, not their chromosomes.

I. W. Gregorio

#28. May you hear my feeble voice! It will tell you that here below there is a heart full of the memory of you.

Herculine Barbin