Susan Stryker Quotes

#1. There is nothing so secular that it cannot be sacred, and that is one of the deepest messages of the Incarnation.

Madeleine L'Engle

#2. I am the O'Malley and I will not take your shit.

Caris O'Malley

#3. Those called penny bags. Each of them got a brand-new penny on the bottom. The light reflecting off the penny supposed to confuse the flies, so they don't come around and bother the food, although every time I see a fly, they confused enough already. Know what I mean?" Queenie chuckled.

Laura Lane McNeal

#4. When people struggling against an injustice have no hope that anything will ever change, they use their strength to survive; when they think that their actions matter, that same strength becomes a force for positive change.

Susan Stryker

#5. Jude gave Chubs a long look of appraisal. "You had day-of-the-week underwear growing up, didn't you?"
Chubs merely pushed the glasses up the bridge of his nose. "I don't see how that's any of your business.

Alexandra Bracken

#6. He wished I wasn't alive. But truth is, I kind of did too. Until I looked at Lily. Until I talked to her. I don't think I could have survived this life without that girl.

Krista Ritchie

#7. Sadness was so claustrophobic.

Kiran Desai

#8. Quality control starts and ends with training.

Kaoru Ishikawa

#9. Not only did the angry villagers hound their monsters to the edge of town, they reproached her for being vulnerable to the torches.

Susan Stryker

#10. The devil smiles when we are up to our ears in work, but he trembles when we pray.

Corrie Ten Boom

#11. Because most people have great difficulty recognizing the humanity of another person if they can't recognize that person's gender, the gender-changing person can evoke in others a primordial fear of monstrosity, or loss of humanness.

Susan Stryker

#12. I know for sure that nothing is guaranteed. Life always changes. I know for sure that I'm open to all possibilities always ... let's just say my life is never boring.

Gayle King

#13. I often wonder if I was destined to be a composer. I think I decided and I followed my star.

Peter Sculthorpe

#14. Sad as they were at his moral decay, the friends were not a little jealous of the good time Danny was having.

John Steinbeck

#15. When did we see each other face-to-face? Not until you saw into my cracks and I saw into yours. Before that, we were just looking at ideas of each other, like looking at your window shade but never seeing inside. But once the vessel cracks, the light can get in. The light can get out.

Matthew Quick

#16. Nobody "becomes" a character. You can't act unless you are who you are.

Marlon Brando

#17. The number one thing small business needs is to get more customers. Spend more time serving existing customers and getting new ones. The challenge for small business is knowing where customers are and reaching them effectively.

Brad D. Smith