Leslie Feinberg > Quotes

“Gender is the poetry each of us makes out of the language we are taught.”
― Leslie Feinberg, Trans Liberation: Beyond Pink or Blue

“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

“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

“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

“I began to feel the pleasure of the weightless state between here and there”
― Leslie Feinberg, Stone Butch Blues

“strength, like height, is measured by who you're standin next to!”
― Leslie Feinberg, Stone Butch Blues

“surrenderin is unimaginably more dangerous than struggling for survival!”
― Leslie Feinberg, Stone Butch Blues

“everybody's scared, but if you don't let your fears stop you, that's bravery!”
― Leslie Feinberg, Stone Butch Blues

“i know the difference between what i can't do and what i refuse to do!”
― Leslie Feinberg, Stone Butch Blues

“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.”
― Leslie Feinberg, Transgender Warriors : Making History from Joan of Arc to Dennis Rodman

“some mistakes in life are not punishable, others teach you a lesson you never forget!”
― Leslie Feinberg, Stone Butch Blues