Top 100 Quotes & Sayings by Jazz Jennings

I have no idea what I want to do for a career. But in terms of my advocacy work, I'm definitely going to continue.

I want to show people they don't have to be scared of being different.

If you don't have the love and support of your family, you need to find someone out there who you can confide in and share your concerns and worries with. And someone who can lift your spirits and make you feel valuable and strong and powerful.

A lot of insurance companies don't protect transgender people because they think it's medically unnecessary, but we deserve to be covered, and this is life-saving treatment.

Being transgender is not just a medical transition.

If someone says something hurtful to you or makes you feel down on yourself, then you just gotta stay positive and keep moving forward because they might not know much about you, or they may not understand the situation.

I think I've been able to find happiness, and I've learned to love myself. That's a huge accomplishment for anyone, learning to love yourself.

We just want to help people understand that it's okay to be transgender, and they're just like everyone else.

I see myself maybe being, like, a movie producer or screenwriter or a novelist or a scientist or mathematician.

With my own videos, I definitely have more control over what I want to put out there and what I want to say. With the TV show, I'm not the editor. There's always things that I wanted to put in there. My dad has the final say in everything on YouTube, but I can be more expressive.

I definitely secretly dream of being a mermaid.

I'm a patient person. I can wait for my prince charming.

In the morning when I wake up, I'll exfoliate. Then at night when I shower, I'll also use an exfoliating scrub. My routine is easy, and I just get clean skin.

It means so much to me to see Caitlyn Jenner coming out, just by being her authentic self, staying true to who she is, and just living her life.

I'm weird: I like science and math but also like English as well.

In the end, everyone just deserves the right to be their authentic selves, just be who they are.

Falling in love. Being in love. It's something I dream of, something I want to feel.

I have a bunch of transgender friends, but they're all spread out across the country.

Ever since I could form coherent thoughts, I knew I was a girl trapped inside a boy's body. There was never any confusion in my mind. The confusing part was why no one else could see what was wrong.

I think that a lot of people don't understand how much discrimination transgender people actually face. They think that we're just kind of saying it to put it out there and get sympathy, but that's not true at all.

Having transgender characters leads to more visibility, which creates education. Education can hopefully lead to everyone treating our community with acceptance and love.

I want people to feel happy in their own skins and feel accepted by society.

Who knows? Maybe someday I'll be living in the White House.

I definitely feel that society sets expectations for transgender people to fit in and makes us feel as if we have to dress a certain way so that we blend in with everyone else. But I believe all transgender individuals should be able to wear whatever they want and not worry about fitting in.

It's something you're born with, and you realize that you're trapped in the wrong body. It's not like one day you're like, 'I want to be transgender!'

Being transgender isn't a medical transition. It's a process of learning to love yourself for who you are.

I'm a normal person, and I'm going to make mistakes. I think people have to accept that.

I wouldn't change myself at all. Being transgender makes me who I am: a strong person, a confident person. Being transgender gives me my personality.

I've always known exactly who I am. I was a girl trapped in a boy's body.

As I began to grow, my family thought my obsessive interest in girly things was just a normal developmental phase.

Bras should be comfortable. I hate when you have all those bras with all that wiring that poke into your ribs, and you take it off at the end of the day, and it feels good. It shouldn't feel good to take off your bra at the end of the day. It should be something that feels good throughout the day.

A lot of straight and transgender boys get in touch with me through my website and social media. They tell me I'm inspirational and beautiful. It boosts my self-esteem.

As a 15-year-old teenage girl, I can attest to the fact that boys dominate most conversations between girls my age.

Haters are our ammunition. They motivate us to continue fighting for our rights. That's why I continue to share my story.

I wouldn't change anything about myself. Not because I'm being cocky or anything, but because this is who I am, and I'm proud of who I am.

I'm an average girl with an average family - and I hope people can see that.

I'm open, and I'm out there, but I also enjoy being alone, relaxing.

I think being a teenager is a difficult journey in and of itself, but being transgender makes it that much harder.

I'm so happy trans visibility has increased immensely.

Often, when a girl has a crush on a boy, her friend will dare her to speak to him or ask for a pencil, or better yet, let him know that she has a crush. Pretty risky stuff... It happens thousands of times a day in the lives of teenagers everywhere. Putting yourself out there. Daring to expose your true feelings.

As a transgender child, I was always looking around for someone like me, because I thought I was the only one. It's hard to feel like that. But having support from my family changed everything. They helped me love myself and embrace who I am.

The more words I learned, the more I started to verbalize my feelings. Whenever my mom or dad would compliment me by saying something like 'Good boy,' I'd immediately correct them. 'No. Good girl.'

If someone's OK with being the 'transgender girl,' that's fine, but that's not me.

I want to help transgender individuals who might be struggling realize that they have to love themselves and stay true to who they are because if they keep moving forward, and keep a positive attitude, then things will get better.

I hope to stop discrimination against young transgender people.

Just like everyone else, I'm not perfect; I go through challenges as well.

I wish everything was gender neutral. I wish we weren't separated by boundaries like pink and blue and little things like that. I wish we could choose how we express ourselves without hate.

Let's face it: your average straight, cis-gender teenage boy isn't going to pursue a relationship with a trans-girl.

I love experimenting with different hair styles and going clothes shopping.

I know that one day all transgender individuals will have the freedom to be who they are, no matter what. And we won't have to face the cruel judgments of society. We can just live our lives and be treated and respected like everyone else.

So many transgender people in the community are being covered with this umbrella of misconception that we are going to hurt someone. But we are not trying to hurt anyone.

I feel like so many people invalidate the experience of transgender girls thinking that they aren't regular girls, but I am a normal girl.

As I got older, I learned about how some people treated their transgender children, and I was shocked. I couldn't understand how someone would leave their child and throw them on the street. I was always taught you give your kid unconditional love and if you don't, something's wrong with you, for real.

For transgender kids who are struggling, I want them to know they're not alone. They shouldn't be afraid to step out of their shadows.

Seeing states like North Carolina enacting these bathroom bills that are banning transgender individuals from using the restrooms they identify as... it's complete discrimination.

If people are going to judge me without fully understanding the content of my character, then their opinion just isn't worth it.

Being transgender is more than just medical books and everything, procedures. It's something spiritual in which you're finding yourself and really discovering who you are and learning to love yourself.

I don't care how people treat me. I care about my message living on through other people.

I feel really honored to be part of The #seetherealme campaign. It's really amazing, as it helps many teen girls who are struggling. It helps them to find themselves and be true to who they are.

When I first appeared in the media, it was rare to see trans people on TV, and young trans kids were unheard of.