Rachael

“There's no such thing as hurting someone for their own good. There's only hurting someone for your own good.”
― Kate Bornstein, A Queer and Pleasant Danger: The True Story of a Nice Jewish Boy Who Joins the Church of Scientology and Leaves Twelve Years Later to Become the Lovely Lady She is Today

“Let’s stop “tolerating” or “accepting” difference, as if we’re so much better for not being different. Instead, let’s celebrate difference, because in this world it takes a lot of guts to be different and to act differently.”
― Kate Bornstein, Hello Cruel World: 101+ Alternatives to Suicide for Teens, Freaks, and Other Outlaws

“There are more and more visibly weird and freaky people in the world these days, and it’s high time we stop carrying forward the junior high school dynamic of excluding them all from our lives or worse . . . nailing them to some cross.”
― Kate Bornstein, Hello Cruel World: 101+ Alternatives to Suicide for Teens, Freaks, and Other Outlaws

“It's easy to fictionalize an issue when you're not aware of the many ways in which you are privileged by it.”
― Kate Bornstein, Gender Outlaws: The Next Generation