Adriannne

“As my friend Julian puts it, only half winkingly: “God blessed me by making me transsexual for the same reason God made wheat but not bread and fruit but not wine, so that humanity might share in the act of creation.”
― Daniel Mallory Ortberg, Something That May Shock and Discredit You

“[E]ven our most personal decisions about caring for our bodies have long been influenced and manipulated by larger power structures.”
― James Hamblin, Clean: The New Science of Skin

“And if she cast it in a more dramatic terms than she was willing to do, explained, emphasized, that she had said no, he would still be angry and she would be a rape victim, and that was not what she wanted to be. Those girls went around perpetually fifteen, weak, cutting themselves or wearing unattractive clothes, on the bring of crying when no one expected it. No thank you.”
― Cara Blue Adams

“The women I dated were often my age, that was fine. But the men always had to be older than me because if they were my same age then it became too obvious how much more powerful I was and this was a turnoff for both of us. Men needed a head start for it to be even.”
― Miranda July, All Fours