Was it love or wasn't it that she felt for Carol? And how absurd it was that she didn't even know. She had heard about girls falling in love, and she knew what kind of people they were and what they l...
Self pity becomes your oxygen. But you learned to breathe it without a gasp. So, nobody even notices you're hurting.
It had all happened in that instant she had seen Carol standing in the middle of the floor, watching her. Then the realization that so much had happened after that meeting made her feel incredibly luc...
Freedom means equality. If you don't believe in equality for all, you don't believe in freedom.
It shook Therese in the profoundest part of her where no words were, no easy words like death or dying or killing Those words were somehow future, and this was present. An inarticulate anxiety, a desi...
The bag I wanted was beyond reason - something to hold my poems, twice as big as the universe and it must be androgynous.
The only thing they have to look forward to is hope. And you have to give them hope. Hope for a better world, hope for a better tomorrow, hope for a better place to come to if the pressures at home ar...
I realize how depraved it was to instill false guilt in an innocent child's conscience, causing a distorted image of life, God, & self, leaving little if any feeling of personal worth.
The photographer frames the shot, writers frame their world.
Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are.
human beings are human beings, just treat everyone like that.
Love is love is love is love is love is love is love is love cannot be killed or swept aside.
If a bullet should enter my brain, let that bullet destroy every closet door.
And what was I if not death's ghostwriter?
Tolerance is certainly an improvement over hate, but it is not the same thing as freedom.
It takes some intelligence and insight to figure out you're gay and then a tremendous amount of balls to live it and live it proudly.
It is exhausting living in a population where people don't speak up if what they witness doesn't directly threaten them.
Do not hope to understand the source of my understanding.
I mean, if I’m going to go to all the trouble of being gay and everything, I might as well tell people.
Trauma or no, I would have been trans no matter what body I'd been born with. Tell the doctors that we exist for the health of humanity, which needs to find wholeness and belief in complexity. Girl in...