Raising My Rainbow Quotes

“How come when girls play with gender it's a sign of strength and when boys play with gender it's a sign of weakness?”
― Lori Duron, Raising My Rainbow: Adventures in Raising a Fabulous, Gender Creative Son

“Things aren't "weird," they are just "different," and "different" isn't bad.”
― Lori Duron, Raising My Rainbow: Adventures in Raising a Fabulous, Gender Creative Son

“I will fight for them with a love and loyalty that is so strong it will never be broken.”
― Lori Duron, Raising My Rainbow: Adventures in Raising a Fabulous, Gender Creative Son

“I want them to be great people with enough competitive spirit and self-confidence to drive them to
follow and excel at their passions — be those styling hair, serving their country, performing, or driving trash trucks. I want them to have just enough competitive spirit and self-confidence, but not so much that they risk meaningful relationships and become consumed by their own self-righteousness. I don’t ever want them to feel like true fulfillment is unattainable.

I want them to fall in love with their whole heart, more than once. I want them to have a significant other in their life who fills them, completes them, and isn’t chosen out of compromise, ambivalence,or apathy. I want them to have someone whom they want to care for and who wants to care for them.

I want them to have a moral compass that works better than my own. I want them to know right from wrong, to consider other people’s feelings and the consequences of their actions. I want them to be men who do the right thing simply because it is the right thing to do.”
― Lori Duron, Raising My Rainbow: Adventures in Raising a Fabulous, Gender Creative Son

“Once things are said and done, they can't be unspoken or undone; it's one of life's tragedies.”
― Lori Duron, Raising My Rainbow: Adventures in Raising a Fabulous, Gender Creative Son

“How come when girls play with gender it’s a sign of strength and when boys play with gender it’s a sign of weakness? I could slap whoever made our society that way.”
― Lori Duron, Raising My Rainbow: Adventures in Raising a Fabulous, Gender Creative Son

“God, grant me the serenity to be an awesome mom for my gender-nonconforming child and the courage not to send him to UCLA to be experimented on; and wisdom, because we are different. Oh, and watch over Anderson Cooper, too.
Amen.”
― Lori Duron, Raising My Rainbow: Adventures in Raising a Fabulous, Gender Creative Son

“I'm trying to celebrate and support them so they know that they are free to be exactly who they were created to be.”
― Lori Duron, Raising My Rainbow: Adventures in Raising a Fabulous, Gender Creative Son

“Sometimes, when something has a name it changes things. Especially when the name is big, long, and official-sounding, like "gender-nonconforming".”
― Lori Duron, Raising My Rainbow: Adventures in Raising a Fabulous, Gender Creative Son

“New research in the Journal of Pediatrics suggests that gay, lesbian and bisexual young adults from very rejecting families (as opposed to families who were neutral or mildly rejecting) are nearly six times more likely to have major depression and three to five times more likely to use illegal drugs or have unprotected sex,” the article reported.”
― Lori Duron, Raising My Rainbow: Adventures in Raising a Fabulous, Gender Creative Son