Miranda

“How did she live without any human touch to her skin?...Somehow they existed without it, many people do. Yet one has to wonder about the toll it takes, the lack of being touched or held. So many people are not.”
― Elizabeth Strout, Tell Me Everything

“Trans women in real life are different from trans women on television. For one thing, when you take away the mystification, misconceptions and mystery, they're at least as boring as everyone else.”
― Imogen Binnie, Nevada

“It's possibly the hardest thing about being trans: making people understand that your life has been dominated by something that, for them, has never even been a problem, something that, quite frankly, they never even heard of.”
― Jennifer Finney Boylan, Cleavage: Men, Women, and the Space Between Us

“It was in front of the mirror that I learned to look at myself without seeing myself. To be an automaton.”
― Alana S. Portero