Binary Quotes

“Bye Bye Binary!”
― Miss Vera

“For every woman who burned a bra, there's a man burning to wear one.”
― Miss Vera

“Bisexuality has the potential to subvert the structure of the gender binary, since bisexuality is perceived as a type of desire that doesn't distinguish between people based on their genders.”
― Shiri Eisner, Bi: Notes for a Bisexual Revolution

“The path to God has become binary: you find God as a monastic or clergy, or you find God as a layperson. There is precious little in between. Oblation comes close but is still only one thread when there used to be an entire tapestry.”
― Sierra Simone, Saint

“There are never just two choices. That is a lie to keep you from thinking too deeply.”
― Rachel Hartman, Tess of the Road

“In the end, it all comes down to 0 and 1”
― Vineet Goel

“Yes to fingerfucking the dialectic! Or to using the dialectic as a method of fingerfucking the binary!”
― Wayne Koestenbaum, Our Deep Gossip: Conversations with Gay Writers on Poetry and Desire

“Just like an organic to be so binary in their logic. A thing can be a thing and also not a thing, you know.”
― Daniel José Older, Last Shot: A Han and Lando Novel

“You can count in binary on your fingers up to 1023.”
― Peter van der Linden, Expert C Programming: Deep C Secrets

“Binary paths belong in bygone past, all things civilized are non-binary.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Handcrafted Humanity: 100 Sonnets For A Blunderful World

“Jerome described her as a waitress-translator, and Sylvie wondered why the women always have these hyphenated jobs? The men are all philosophers, artists, filmmakers."

Kraus, Chris. Torpor (S.182)”
― Chris Kraus, Torpor

“When it comes to monosexual identities, gender-based discrimination not only is encouraged but also constitutes the basis on which monosexual identities are created and withheld. In this way bisexuality exposes inconsistencies within the system”
― Shiri Eisner, Bi: Notes for a Bisexual Revolution

“Trans folks are often expected to embrace a narrative that makes cis people comfortable--something simple and linear that upholds their binary understanding of gender transition.”
― Zena Sharman, The Remedy: Queer and Trans Voices on Health and Health Care

“Life is full of electronic desires
where one dream spliced with currents of wires
Leading our footsteps to the online shore,
we expect the waves to bring us some more
of those binary tides to wash us away
to the cyber beach for a lonesome day”
― Munia Khan

“There are many things to question in this conflation of binaries: good/bad, with normal/abnormal, and natural/unnatural. First off, can we really say that "normal" and "natural" things are somehow morally better than those that are "abnormal" and "unnatural"? It's not normal to be a genius, a musical prodigy, or a great altruist, but we generally don't shun those people! And it's pretty unnatural to use smartphones and to fly around the world, yet people welcome the ability to do those things.”
― Meg-John Barker, Life Isn't Binary: On Being Both, Beyond, and In-Between

“The many delights of solo living are seldom shown in the media, just as the pain, vulnerability, and often conflict of living alongside the same person for years and years are rarely depicted, unless a "break-up" is involved. What is the impact of seeing the repetition, over and over and over again, of the "happily-ever-after" of getting together with a partner as the ending of every story from fairy tale to action movie? How much do we internalize the notion that this is the goal we should be thriving for?”
― Meg-John Barker, Life Isn't Binary: On Being Both, Beyond, and In-Between

“Perhaps an overarching binary when it comes to love and relationships is the one which privileges partners over friends. You can see this reflected in phrases like "just friends", "more than friends" and "friendzone", all of which suggest that being friends is inferior to - and less desirable than - being partners with someone.”
― Meg-John Barker, Life Isn't Binary: On Being Both, Beyond, and In-Between

“The partner/friend binary places coupled, monogamous, romantic, sexual, partnered love right at the pinnacle of human experience. Like the sexual and gender binaries this is quite a new, Western dominant culture thing to do, and certainly not the way that relationships have been done globally, or across time.”
― Meg-John Barker, Life Isn't Binary: On Being Both, Beyond, and In-Between

“I was raised smack in the middle of the storm where East and West would often clash, just like my dreams.”
― Selin Senol-Akin, Set Free Your Flow: A Centered View

“Instead of expecting men to cater to women or become “male feminists” it would better serve everyone if women appreciated their male counterparts for the roles they take on which women can’t or won’t do.”
― Jessica Marie Baumgartner

“Ones and Zeroes shaped us; with adversity, we stand in Singularity.”
― H.S. Crow

“The universe is made up of one kind of matter—everything. There is no binary universe. So there is no binary body. It's a myth. We need to erase difference, embrace the idea of similarity, and recognize that similarity is not a weakening at all but a strengthening.”
― Genesis P-Orridge, Nonbinary: A Memoir

“Life is nonbinary, existence is nonbiblical.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper

“When we are conditioned to think gender is binary, we become quite prejudiced to anyone who does not conform to what our ideas of gender are. This births all kinds of prejudice, including sexism, homophobia and transphobia.”
― Malebo Sephodi

“Binary is like a secret language, and in that language, the letter B is both unique and powerful. It's a symbol of the endless possibilities of coding and computing”
― Krikor Karaoghlanian