Stuck in the Middle With You Quotes

“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

“Each minute seemed like hours and hours. But then the years passed by like days.”
― Jennifer Finney Boylan, Stuck in the Middle With You: A Memoir of Parenting in Three Genders

“The women I knew in those days liked the fact that I had a feminine streak, that I seemed to be sensitive and caring, that I didn’t know the names of any NFL teams, that I could make a nice risotto. A lot of straight women love a female sensibility in a man, an enthusiasm that goes right up to, but unfortunately does not quite include, his being an actual woman.”
― Jennifer Finney Boylan, Stuck in the Middle with You: A Memoir of Parenting in Three Genders

“I did love her, though, for a little while anyhow. That was the thing: I still believed, on some fundamental level, that love would cure me. That if only I were loved deeply enough by someone else, I would be content to stay a man. It wouldn’t be my authentic life, but it would be all right. It was better, in any case, than coming out as transsexual, taking hormones, and having some gruesome operation and walking around like Herman Munster. An authentic life wasn’t very appealing. And so I allowed myself to be lifted off the ground by the levitating properties of romantic love.”
― Jennifer Finney Boylan, Stuck in the Middle with You: A Memoir of Parenting in Three Genders