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#1

“While money can't buy happiness, it certainly lets you choose your own form of misery.”
― Groucho Marx

tags: money

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#2

“I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.”
― Mark Twain

tags: death, inspirational

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#3

“I'm the one that's got to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life the way I want to.”
― Jimi Hendrix, The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Axis: Bold as Love | Guitar TAB Sheet Music Collection | Note-for-Note Transcriptions for Electric Guitar Players | Classic Psychedelic Rock Solos

tags: death, life

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#4

“You are an anomaly of a man," she said.

"Perhaps because I'm not a man at all." He sat closer now. The sheets wrinkled as he scooted himself toward her.

"Aye. You gender-malcontent. You otherling," she said..."Me too. I am a boy and a girl and a witch all wrapped into one very strange, flimsy, indecisive body. Do you think my body couldn't decide what it wanted to be?"

"I think it doesn't matter because we get to decide what our bodies are or are not," he answered.”
― Rivers Solomon, An Unkindness of Ghosts

tags: gender, intersex, nonbinary, transgender

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#5

“bathroom: (n.) where Americans go to argue about gender while the country goes down the toilet.”
― Sol Luckman, The Angel's Dictionary

tags: bathroom, bathroom-bill, gender, humor, satire, toilet, transgender, transgender-bathroom-bill, transgenderism

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#6

“If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.”
― Dorothy Parker

tags: god, humor, money

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#7

“I am easy as a woman, taut as a man. All my limbs is broke as a man, and fixed good as a woman. I lie down with the soul of woman and wake with the same. I don't foresee no time where this ain't true no more.”
― Sebastian Barry, Days Without End

tags: lgbt, transgender

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#8

“It's a tough world to find yourself in, but an even tougher one to be yourself in”
― Chris Colfer, Stranger Than Fanfiction

tags: coming-of-age, fiction, inspiring, transgender

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#9

“Most people who are would each not be in love with their partner, if they did not have the kind of genitals they have.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

tags: aphorism, aphorisms, aphorist, aphorists, be-in-love, child, children, family, funny, gay, gays, genitals, heterosexual, heterosexuality, hilarious, homosexual, homosexuality, humor, humorous, humour, in-love, joke, jokes, kid, kids, lesbian, lesbians, love, lover, lovers, marriage, marriages, offspring, out-of-love, parent, parenthood, parents, partner, partners, penis, penises, procreate, procreation, relationship, relationships, reproduce, reproduction, satire, sex, sexual-intercourse, spouse, spouses, transgender, unconditional-love, vagina, vaginas

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#10

“No one has the right to demand that your body be something other than what it is.”
― Agnostic Zetetic

tags: body, body-modification, body-shame, cosmetics, expectations, judgment, opinion, relationships, shame, societal-expectations, surgery, trans, transgender

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#11

“It is an awful thing to be betrayed by your body. And it's lonely, because you feel you can't talk about it. You feel it's something between you and the body. You feel it's a battle you will never win . . . and yet you fight it day after day, and it wears you down. Even if you try to ignore it, the energy it takes to ignore it will exhaust you.”
― David Levithan, Every Day

tags: disability, dissonance, dysmorphia, fighting-yourself, imperfection, loneliness, struggling, transgender

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#12

“My body is a political battlefield.
It is a place of war, of death and suffering, of triumph and victory, of damage and repair, of blood and tears and sweat.
It is a place where memories go to find purpose for their existence.
It is a place where humans cast all inhibitions aside to discover what exists at their very core.
It is a place of growth wearing a mask of destruction.
It is a challenge, not for the faint of heart, beckoning us to face it with eyes wide open.

The only war is within. When you are ready to fight it, the field awaits.”
― Agnostic Zetetic

tags: battle, battlefield, body, body-shame, challenge, destruction, field, growth, humanity, inhibition, internal, lgbt, overcoming, politics, pride, spiritual-warfare, survival, trans, transgender, triumph, war

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#13

“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

tags: 1970, inspirational, stories, writing

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#14

“If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
― Toni Morrison

tags: books, writing

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#15

“We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.”
― Anais Nin

tags: anais-nin, qoutes-on-writing, writing

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#16

“You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.”
― Saul Bellow

tags: imagination, inspiration, writing

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#17

“How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.”
― Henry David Thoreau

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#18

“Do you dwell on everyone’s junk when you meet them? Like, all you do all day long is think about dicks and janes? Is that your thing, Bailey? You can’t stop thinking about what’s in everyone’s pants?”
― Brie Spangler, Beast

tags: beast, lgbtq, transgender

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#19

“The first draft of anything is shit.”
― Ernest Hemingway

tags: attributed-no-source, writing

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#20

“Even when we are confused about someone’s gender, and don’t have a greater awareness of what it means to be trans, we have a choice to respond with kindness rather than cruelty.”
― C. N. Lester

tags: gender, genderqueer, lgbtq, sociology, transgender

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#21

“Being a writer is a very peculiar sort of a job: it's always you versus a blank sheet of paper (or a blank screen) and quite often the blank piece of paper wins.”
― Neil Gaiman

tags: writing

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#21

“You should write because you love the shape of stories and sentences and the creation of different words on a page. Writing comes from reading, and reading is the finest teacher of how to write.”
― Annie Proulx

tags: reading, words, writing

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#23

“I write to give myself strength. I write to be the characters that I am not. I write to explore all the things I'm afraid of. ”
― Joss Whedon

tags: writing

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#23

“I am not trapped in the wrong body; I am trapped in a world that makes very little space for bodies like mine.”
― Ivan E. Coyote, Tomboy Survival Guide

tags: conformity, societal-norms, transgender

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#24

“If I am in a state of becoming, it has no endpoint. I imagine replacing the memories of everyone I've ever spoken to with the impression that they have only ever seen me as a being clothed in light. In the early part of the twentieth century, homophobes and eugenicists joined forces to study what they called inversion, an early term for homosexuality, gender nonconformity, and transness. They believed they could read and police queerness on the body.

Maybe this is why I don't want to make myself legible. I want to erase the meanings that have been ascribed to my breath, to my sweat, to my hair and fat and skin. I trace the green veins in my neck that branch down into my breasts as feathers. I am painting myself as the bird that, to the world outside this room, does not exist. I draw myself clothed in wings and tell myself that even the angels are sexless.”
― Zeyn Joukhadar, The Thirty Names of Night

tags: freedom, transformation, transgender

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#27

“The easy road would have been to stay on the same path, the one that led only to death and decay. Instead, I took the road less travelled; I journeyed towards new life; towards transformation.”
― Alex Clare-Young, Transgender. Christian. Human.

tags: journey, new-life, transformation, transgender

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#27

“I wish I knew how to quit you.”
― Annie Proulx, Brokeback Mountain

tags: infatuation, love-quotes, obsession, true-love

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#28

“Men and women are performative and somatic fictions, convinced of their natural reality.”
― Beatriz Preciado

tags: female, gender, male, man, performativity, transgender, woman

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#29

“It could've been easy to say I was hurt because I'm trans, because someone singled me out for my identity, but there's something weird about that - something off, about suggesting that my identity is the thing that brought me any sort of pain. It's the opposite. Being trans brings me love. It brings me happiness. It gives me power.”
― Kacen Callender, Felix Ever After

tags: lgbtqia, transgender

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#30

“How are you supposed to be believed about the harm that you experience when people don't even believe that you exist?

The assumption is that being a masculine man or a feminine woman is normal, and that being "us" is an accessory. Like if you remove our clothing, our makeup, and our pronouns, underneath the surface we are just men and women playing dress-up.”
― Alok Vaid-Menon, Beyond the Gender Binary

tags: gender-equality, gender-non-conformity, lgbtqia, non-binary, transgender

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