Ace Voices Quotes

“There is power in naming yourself, but there is also power in being unnameable.”
― Eris Young, Ace Voices: What it Means to Be Asexual, Aromantic, Demi or Grey-Ace

“back in my mid-twenties, a friend getting into a relationship could be enough to send me into a spiral of depression and anxiety, simultaneously worried I'd lose the friend and reminded that (as I thought then) I'd be forever alone.”
― Eris Young, Ace Voices: What it Means to Be Asexual, Aromantic, Demi or Grey-Ace

“For many people, being alone symbolises a failure to live up to the aspirational life that society tells them they should want.”
― Eris Young, Ace Voices: What it Means to Be Asexual, Aromantic, Demi or Grey-Ace

“When it comes to romance, we're told, "You'll know it when you see it" Which is fine, unless, of course, you don't.”
― Eris Young, Ace Voices: What it Means to Be Asexual, Aromantic, Demi or Grey-Ace

“I would [tell] her, or them, to be gentle with themselves. There is value in the knowing, when the knowing comes, but value in the learning too. -CD”
― Eris Young, Ace Voices: What it Means to Be Asexual, Aromantic, Demi or Grey-Ace

“And just as asexuality is not a disease to be cured, sex-aversion isn't a pathology unless the person experiencing it decides that it is.”
― Eris Young, Ace Voices: What it Means to Be Asexual, Aromantic, Demi or Grey-Ace

“The environment of hostility created by TERFs and "gender-critical" idealogues has led many of us to feel trepidation around publicly identifying as "more than one thing", as if identity labels were gaudy parade medals and not a simple attempt to put words to feelings.”
― Eris Young, Ace Voices: What it Means to Be Asexual, Aromantic, Demi or Grey-Ace