Nancy Scherm

“But you can only lie about who you are for so long without going crazy.”
― Ellen Wittlinger, Parrotfish

“We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.”
― May Sarton

“In fact, the word transition seems to me to be used incorrectly. Most people use it to mean going from one identity to another, such as with surgery or the use of hormones. I understand it to mean that the person has the other identity already and the transition involves the perceptions of society aligning with that identity. In this “word flip” it is not the person who is transitioning but society, which is transitioning its perceptions of that person.”
― Lori B. Girshick