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“Sex is f-king, everything else is gender.”

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Kate Bornstein, born on March 15, 1948, is an American author, performance artist, and genderqueer activist. Her works explore gender identity, gender expression, and gender politics, having a profound impact on gender studies. more

“We grew up creating this whole world view for ourselves because it's not there in the culture. What am I? And I have to build this world view in the absence of books, radio and television, anything, even conversation, Mom or Dad or brother or sister or friends. I have to build a world view of who I am or I go stark, raving mad. Every transsexual in the past has had to do this.”

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Author:Kate Bornstein

“The hardest thing in the world is to stand alone. Your friends will not understand, will resent you, will want you to just stop it and let life go back to where it was. But you have to follow the quiet turning of your own considered conscience. It's a hard road.”

World Want Hard Quiet Conscience Hardest Hardest Thing Resent Stand Alone Resent You

Author:J. Michael Straczynski

“You don't know where you belong... You need something to swear to, As you fol-low blindly along; You just need to belong somehow.”

Knows Needs Lows Swear Where You Belong

Author:Cyndi Lauper

“Secrets stolen from deep inside....the drum beats out of time”

Secret Beats Stolen Deep Inside Drum Beats

Author:Cyndi Lauper

“Mix sheer hypocrisy with mediocrity, You play it safe every time.”

Play Safe Hypocrisy Mediocrity Sheer

Author:Cyndi Lauper

“It takes forever if you go by inertia.”

Ifs Forever Inertia

Author:Jane Siberry

“If you give in to intimidation, you'll go on being intimidated”

Ifs Giving Goes On Intimidated Intimidation

Author:Aung San Suu Kyi

“It is imperative for many branches of fundamentalist christianity to constantly feel conspired against...so they cite humanist manifestos and theosophical societies and concoct these vast and dark organizations that exist nowhere but in the minds of those who conceive these theories.”

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Author:J. Michael Straczynski

“The woman who needs to be liberated most is the woman in every man, and the man who needs to be liberated most is the man in every woman”

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Author:Magnus Hirschfeld

“I feel bad that people think that "feminism" is a dirty word. I don't understand that at all, I'm proud to be labeled a feminist. I consider myself a person who has throughout my entire life stood up for myself. It's never been my ambition to be someone who takes a backseat to anything. I'm not a male basher at all. I divide people into assholes and non-assholes, and that's genderless. I encounter sexism everyday.”

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Author:Janeane Garofalo

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