Leslie Feinberg Quotes

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  • My right to be me is tied with a thousand threads to your right to be you.

    Leslie Feinberg (1998). “Trans liberation: beyond pink or blue”, Beacon Pr
  • People of all sexes have the right to explore femininity, masculinity-and the infinite variations between-without criticism or ridicule.

    Sex   People   Criticism  
    Leslie Feinberg (1998). “Trans liberation: beyond pink or blue”, Beacon Pr
  • I reserve my right to be complex.

  • I live proudly in a body of my own design. I defend my right to be complex

    Design   Body   Complexes  
    Leslie Feinberg (1998). “Trans liberation: beyond pink or blue”, Beacon Pr
  • It’s a beauty one isn’t born with, but must fight to construct at great sacrifice.

  • everybody's scared, but if you don't let your fears stop you, that's bravery!

    Bravery   Scared   Ifs  
    Leslie Feinberg (2010). “Stone Butch Blues”, p.168, ReadHowYouWant.com
  • I didn't want to be different. I longed to be everything grownups wanted, so they would love me. I followed all their rules, tried my best to please. But there was something about me that made them knit their eyebrows and frown. No one ever offered a name for what was wrong with me. That's what made me afraid it was really bad. I only came to recognize its melody through this constant refrain: 'Is that a boy or a girl?'

    Girl   Boys   Eyebrows  
    Leslie Feinberg (2010). “Stone Butch Blues”, p.14, ReadHowYouWant.com
  • I think girls and boys should be able to be any way they want to be without getting picked on.

    Girl   Boys   Thinking  
    Leslie Feinberg (2010). “Stone Butch Blues”, p.302, ReadHowYouWant.com
  • Gender is the poetry each of us makes out of the language we are taught.

    Lgbt   Taught   Language  
    Leslie Feinberg (1998). “Trans liberation: beyond pink or blue”, Beacon Pr
  • Are you with women who only bleed monthly on their cycles?

    Cycles  
    Leslie Feinberg (2010). “Stone Butch Blues”, p.12, ReadHowYouWant.com
  • surrenderin is unimaginably more dangerous than struggling for survival!

  • I began to feel the pleasure of the weightless state between here and there

  • You're more than just neither, honey. There's other ways to be than either-or. It's not so simple. Otherwise there wouldn't be so many people who don't fit.

    Simple   People   Honey  
    Leslie Feinberg (2010). “Stone Butch Blues”, p.397, ReadHowYouWant.com
  • I learned that strength, like height, is measured by who you're standing next to.

    Height   Next  
    "Stone Butch Blues".
  • If I'm not with a butch everyone just assumes I'm straight. It's like I'm passing too, against my will. I'm sick of the world thinking I'm straight. I've worked hard to be discriminated against as a lesbian

    Thinking   Sick   World  
    Leslie Feinberg (2010). “Stone Butch Blues”, p.275, ReadHowYouWant.com
  • More exists among human beings than can be answered by the simplistic question I'm hit with every day of my life: "Are you a man or a woman?

    Leslie Feinberg (1998). “Trans liberation: beyond pink or blue”, Beacon Pr
  • We have not always been forced to pass, to go underground, in order to work and live. We have a right to live openly and proudly...when our lives are suppressed, everyone is denied an understanding of the rich diversity of sex and gender expression and experience that exist in human society.

    Sex   Expression   Order  
    Leslie Feinberg (1996). “Transgender Warriors: Making History from Joan of Arc to Dennis Rodman”, Beacon Press (MA)
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