quotes by Leslie Feinberg

"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

"Gender is the poetry each of us makes out of the language we are taught."
— Leslie Feinberg (Trans Liberation: Beyond Pink or Blue)

"I felt as though I was rushing into a burning building to discover the ideas I needed for my own life.(239)"
— Leslie Feinberg (Stone Butch Blues: A Novel)

"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"
— Leslie Feinberg (Stone Butch Blues: A Novel)

"I began to feel the pleasure of the weightless state between here and there"
— Leslie Feinberg (Stone Butch Blues: A Novel)

"Deep down, my insides seethed. i knew i was stone, too. It was a home alarm system that didn't seem to have an on-off switch. Once installed, the sirens went off and the gates shut, even if the intruder was loving. Would I finally fine a woman who loved me and lose her because of that? If that was true, life seemed too hard to bear."
— Leslie Feinberg (Stone Butch Blues: A Novel)

"'How do you find an apartment in this city?' I asked. 'You want an apartment? Go find someone who's got a rent-controlled apartment and kill them.' He wasn't smiling as he handed me a copy of the Village Voice and took my money."
— Leslie Feinberg (Stone Butch Blues: A Novel)