Inverse Cowgirl Quotes

“Loneliness is corrosive; the antidote is community.”
― Alicia Roth Weigel, Inverse Cowgirl

“Choice is the most necessary, and powerful, thing that exists. It is the difference between life as a free agent and as a slave to circumstance.”
― Alicia Roth Weigel, Inverse Cowgirl

“People are often the product of the structures they’re raised in until they witness something different.”
― Alicia Roth Weigel, Inverse Cowgirl

“Maybe if we spend more time sharing stories and listening to one another than defending our borders— geographic and ideological— we’ll realize that, though the plot details differ, the trajectories are largely the same. And the borders we draw are, really, just lines in the sand.”
― Alicia Roth Weigel, Inverse Cowgirl

“I blame an oppressive society at large, one that promotes the belief that it’s better to change people to fit the norm than to change the norm to accept people— that it’s better to remove the traits that might lead someone to being made fun of rather than to raise kids not to make fun of those who are different.”
― Alicia Roth Weigel, Inverse Cowgirl

“Like flowers, intersex people are natural, and our existence is beautiful. Our community, like any garden, relies on outside help to survive and thrive.”
― Alicia Roth Weigel, Inverse Cowgirl

“This manifesto isn’t a call to think “outside the box”; it’s an invitation to dream beyond boxes. We are not outside, or “other.” The box doesn’t actually exist—we do.”
― Alicia Roth Weigel, Inverse Cowgirl