Just Girls Quotes

“It’s not brave to be who you are,” Ella told her. “It’s necessary.”
― Rachel Gold, Just Girls

“I think maybe at some level it would be good if feminism was about raising up women but also femininity, no matter where it is. Sometimes it’s the delicate and the weak and the yielding aspects of life that are the most important.”
― Rachel Gold, Just Girls

“What a strange world where half the time we couldn’t pick each other out in a crowd and yet so many people I met still thought trans folks were only the stereotypes they saw on TV.”
― Rachel Gold, Just Girls

“And I don’t think it’s deceptive to not want to tell strangers or new friends a long story about the state of my genitals.”
― Rachel Gold, Just Girls

“And I had this creepy suspicion that he was “putting up” with my trans status because he could get a pretty girl on his arm. It was like I was some kind of discounted designer purse. Well, except he’d never carry a purse.”
― Rachel Gold, Just Girls

“There weren’t so many trans books in the world that you couldn’t blow through all of them in under a year, even with classes and homework, and then wish for more.”
― Rachel Gold, Just Girls

“My guy friends assumed I was going to come out as gay at any minute since I had a lot of female friends and a reputation for being a sensitive guy and a great listener.”
― Rachel Gold, Just Girls

“The trouble is that gender dysphoria is not something you can see so Mom and Dad thought they had a son. They’d spent ten years thinking they had a son before my continued insistence that I was a girl wore through Mom’s defenses and she realized what I was trying to tell her.”
― Rachel Gold, Just Girls

“Every kind of woman should have a shot at a great life—and men too; but she didn’t worry as much about them.”
― Rachel Gold, Just Girls

“To keep sexism in place, you have to keep men and women clearly separate. Transsexualism is a huge threat to that.”
― Rachel Gold, Just Girls

“She felt so light and small across Tucker’s lap. It wasn’t just her size, but there was a way that she carried herself deep inside so that even touching Tucker she held herself away.”
― Rachel Gold, Just Girls