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“I wiped my face with my sleeve. Jack, who'd been watching everything with big, worried eyes, opened his man purse and handed me a little travel Kleenex package. 'Thank you,' I sniffled.
'Just keep it. You'll probably cry more later,' he said, patting my shoulder.”
― P.C. Cast, Kristin Cast, Tempted

“I think we were all a little stunned and hadn't quite grasped the fact that we were actually going to Italy to speak before the Vampyre High Council. Or at least I was going to speak. Ah, hell. I was going to have to speak in front of the Vampyre High Council. Or maybe I'd get up there, in front of all those old, powerful vamps and have raging diarrhea and poo myself. Yep. That would certainly make an impression on the Council. "Unique" would just be one of the words they'd call me.”
― P.C. Cast, Kristin Cast, Tempted

“The vehement pathologizing of transgender encapsulates the entire discussion surrounding the "cause" of alternate sexual and gender expression in animals. Phenomena such as homosexuality or gender mixing are never seen as neutral or expected variations along a sexual and gender continuum (or continua), but rather as abnormal or exceptional conditions that require explanation. At the root of this perception is the idea that homosexuality and transgender are dysfunctional behaviors or conditions because they do not lead to reproduction.”
― Bruce Bagemihl, Biological Exuberance: Animal Homosexuality and Natural Diversity

“The scientific discourse surrounding animal homosexuality has been preoccupied with finding an *explanation* for the phenomenon, often at the expense of providing comprehensive descriptive information about, or acknowledgement of, the actual extent and diversity of same-sex activity throughout the animal kingdom. Rather than being seen as a part of a spectrum of natural variation in sexual and gender expression, homosexuality and transgender are viewed as exceptions or anomalies that somehow stand outside the natural order and must therefore be "explained" or "rationalized".”
― Bruce Bagemihl, Biological Exuberance: Animal Homosexuality and Natural Diversity