Miranda

“I compare it to a sense of homesickness for a place you've never been. The moment you stepped onto the supposedly unfamiliar shores, though, you'd have a sense of overwhelming gratitude, and solace, and joy. Home, you might think, I'm finally home.”
― Jennifer Finney Boylan, Cleavage: Men, Women, and the Space Between Us

“Dysphoria, which I didn’t even have a name for, took up so much mental space and created so much physical displeasure already at only nine friggin years old there was hardly any room for anything else”
― Alana S. Portero

“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

“The real question is why it matters to people. Do we really need proof, like in our genes, or brains, or anything else, to be who we are? Why do we need certification of it, or whatever? The only person who can tell you who you are is you.”
― Jennifer Finney Boylan, Cleavage: Men, Women, and the Space Between Us