“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
“Yes, I am as one who tries to sail against the current up over a waterfall, and I feel that the current has grabbed me and overpowered me ...... I no longer know where it leads me ...... perhaps towards complete destruction ...... and yet I cannot get off the boat now that I am halfway, the decision has been made ...... there is no turning back.” DestinyFateTransitionTransgenderNo Turning BackNo Going BackTrans Woman 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
“That I, Lili, am vital and have a right to life I have proved by living for 14 months. It may be said that 14 months is not much, but they seem to me like a whole and happy human life.” LifeHappinessDeathFulfillmentWorthLife Is ShortTransgenderShortness Of LifeTransgenderismTransgender Women Author:Lili Elbe
“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