Mary

“Most of the time I just have to resign myself to the fact that this whole business is beyond comprehension for most straight people. If you’re not trans, you’re free from thinking about what gender you are in the same way that white people in America are generally free from having to think about what race they are.”
― Jennifer Finney Boylan, Stuck in the Middle with You: A Memoir of Parenting in Three Genders

“Although a graduate of the University of California the bride is nonetheless an extremely attractive young woman.”
― Frank B. Gilbreth Jr., Cheaper by the Dozen

“We are the pioneers of the world; the advance-guard sent on through the wilderness of untried things...”
― Herman Melville, White Jacket or, the World in a Man-of-War

“Let's think the unthinkable, let's do the undoable. Let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all.”
― Douglas Adams, Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency