“He gave me a new German translation of the Bible and opened it to the first page. There I read again and again: 'Und die Erde war Wirrnis und Wüste. Finsternis allüber Abgrund. Braus Gottes brütend allüber den Wassern.' It could have been written about me, I thought. I thought that the beginning had been like this and I kept on hearing these words sound in my heart.” GodCreationIdentityBibleTransgenderGenesisOntologyGermanBiblical Interpretation Book:Lili: A Portrait of the First Sex Change Source: Lili: A Portrait of the First Sex Change
“I knew that I would never in any book find anything about people who were like me...... no poet had yet written about such a being, because it had never occurred to any poet that it could exist.” IdentityRepresentationTransgenderAlonenessGender DysphoriaTransgenderismTransgender Women Book:Man into Woman: The First Sex Change Source: Man into Woman: The First Sex Change
“All other women were allowed to be ugly, to be hideous, to have all kinds of defects and flaws in their appearance. But I had to be pretty; if I did not look good, I had lost any right to exist, to be a woman ......” IdentityInsecurityFemininityTransgenderBeauty StandardsTransgender IssuesGender DysphoriaPrettinessTrans Women Book:Man into Woman: The First Sex Change Source: Man into Woman: The First Sex Change
“I am like someone who is building a bridge. But it is no ordinary bridge. On one bank I stand ...... That is the present and there I have already driven in the first poles. And from this bank I am going to build my bridge, floating in space toward the other bank that I often see not at all and otherwise only see as in a fog. Only now and then I see it quite clearly in my dreams. And then I do not know if this bank means the past or the future. This question then awakes in me: Have I only had a past or have I not had any past at all, or do I only have a future and no past?” PastDreamsIdentityFutureQuestionsOntologyGender IdentityPast And FutureAnalogy Book:Lili: A Portrait of the First Sex Change Source: Lili: A Portrait of the First Sex Change