Stone Butch Blues Quotes

“Nature held me close and seemed to find no fault with me.”
― Leslie Feinberg, Stone Butch Blues

“I’m not saying we’ll live to see some sort of paradise. But just fighting for change makes you stronger. Not hoping for anything will kill you for sure. Take a chance, Jess. You’re already wondering if the world could change. Try imagining a world worth living in, and then ask yourself if that isn’t worth fighting for. You’ve come too far to give up on hope, Jess.”
― Leslie Feinberg, Stone Butch Blues

“When I was really small I thought I’d do anything to change whatever was wrong with me. Now I didn’t want to change, I just wanted people to stop being mad at me all the time.”
― Leslie Feinberg, Stone Butch Blues

“That’s when I began passing as a man. Strange to be exiled from your own sex to borders that will never be home.”
― Leslie Feinberg, Stone Butch Blues

“All the girls and women looked pretty much the same, so did all the boys and men. I couldn't find myself among the girls. I had never seen any adult woman who looked like I thought I would when I grew up. There were no women on television like the small woman reflected in this mirror, none on the streets. I knew. I was always searching.”
― Leslie Feinberg, Stone Butch Blues

“Every day the men around me came to exercise their bodies; I came to exorcise my demons”
― Leslie Feinberg

“You were showing him your muscle?”
I froze, wondering how much she had seen.
She smiled. “Sometimes it’s better to let boys
think they're stronger,” she told me.”
― Leslie Feinberg, Stone Butch Blues