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Cleavage: Men, Women, and the Space Between Us
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Jennifer Finney Boylan2,176 ratings, 3.65 average rating, 503 reviews
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“The real question is why it matters to people. Do we really need proof, like in our genes, or our brains, or anything else, to be who we are? Why do we need certification of it, or whatever? The only person who can tell you who you are is you.”
― Cleavage: Men, Women, and the Space Between Us
― Cleavage: Men, Women, and the Space Between Us
“I think sometimes of the lines in the Gospel of St. Thomas. If you bring forth what is within you, what you bring forth will save you. If you do not bring forth what is within you, what you do not bring forth will destroy you.”
― Cleavage: Men, Women, and the Space Between Us
― Cleavage: Men, Women, and the Space Between Us
“Sometimes I suspect that what people really resent is not the change in (grammar). What people resent is being told that the world that they have known has changed, and that even now they have to get used to something new.”
― Cleavage: Men, Women, and the Space Between Us
― Cleavage: Men, Women, and the Space Between Us
“What's important about breaking bread is sharing it with other people. That's what is meant by communion...if you want to know the love of God, order a pizza for your hall.”
― Cleavage: Men, Women, and the Space Between Us
― Cleavage: Men, Women, and the Space Between Us
“Thou art a real nut.”
― Cleavage: Men, Women, and the Space Between Us
― Cleavage: Men, Women, and the Space Between Us
“Let’s fall in love, I might have suggested. That way I won’t have to kill myself.”
― Cleavage: Men, Women, and the Space Between Us
― Cleavage: Men, Women, and the Space Between Us
“I compare it to a sense of homesickness for a place you've never been. The moment you stepped onto the supposedly unfamiliar shores, though, you'd have a sense of overwhelming gratitude, and solace, and joy. Home, you might think, I'm finally home.”
― Cleavage: Men, Women, and the Space Between Us
― Cleavage: Men, Women, and the Space Between Us
“It's possibly the hardest thing about being trans: making people understand that your life has been dominated by something that, for them, has never even been a problem, something that, quite frankly, they never even heard of.”
― Cleavage: Men, Women, and the Space Between Us
― Cleavage: Men, Women, and the Space Between Us
“Yet even for those who lose everything--families, jobs, marriages, children, homes--even among these, I don't know a single soul who regrets the transition. Because of course it wasn't the transition itself that disappointed them; it was all those friends and lovers, who, at the moment when they were most needed, closed their hearts and vanished.”
― Cleavage: Men, Women, and the Space Between Us
― Cleavage: Men, Women, and the Space Between Us
“The real question is why it matters to people. Do we really need proof, like in our genes, or brains, or anything else, to be who we are? Why do we need certification of it, or whatever? The only person who can tell you who you are is you.”
― Cleavage: Men, Women, and the Space Between Us
― Cleavage: Men, Women, and the Space Between Us
