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“For now, I had to be hard and white. In the frosty days, in the winter, the ground is white, then the sun rises,, and the frosts melt...”
― Jeanette Winterson, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

“I could not smash the ice that separated me from myself, I could only let it melt.”
― Jeanette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

“If I could imagine myself as God, I’d become him!”
― Arkady Strugatsky, Hard to Be a God

“Certain people... they turn you into what you were before.”
― F.C. Yee, The Shadow of Kyoshi

“What I want does exist if I dare to find it.”
― Jeanette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

“Camp sees everything in quotation marks. It's not a lamp, but a 'lamp'; not a woman, but a 'woman'.”
― Susan Sontag, Notes on ‘Camp’

“But whatever its origins, when we look hard and clearly at the extent and elaboration of measures designed to keep women within a male sexual purlieu, it becomes an inescapable question whether the issue we have to address as feminists is not simple "gender inequality," nor the domination of culture by males, nor mere "taboos against homosexuality," but the enforcement of heterosexuality for women as a means of assuring male right of physical, economical, and emotional access.”
― Adrienne Rich, Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence

“Where do my tears go? Why is it that I can’t cry now when I need to? Yet I knew that later my tears would be unexpectedly triggered by the scent of lilacs, or the low hum of a cello.”
― Leslie Feinberg, Stone Butch Blues

“Sometimes I cry when no one else is around – I am grieving, but it’s too early to burn the body.”
― Avni Doshi, Burnt Sugar

“I had learned a lot in three weeks. I realized that the world could do more than just judge me, it wielded tremendous power over me.”
― Leslie Feinberg, Stone Butch Blues

“People said that he was very nice, but I confess that his utter grotesqueness made me uneasy; perhaps in the same way that the sight of monkeys eating their own excrement turns some people’s stomachs. They might not mind so much if monkeys did not- so grotesquely- resemble human beings.”
― James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room