Top 17 Quotes & Sayings by Leslie Feinberg

Gender is the poetry each of us makes out of the language we are taught.

It’s a beauty one isn’t born with, but must fight to construct at great sacrifice.

You're more than just neither, honey. There's other ways to be than either-or. It's not so simple. Otherwise there wouldn't be so many people who don't fit.

People of all sexes have the right to explore femininity, masculinity-and the infinite variations between-without criticism or ridicule.

More exists among human beings than can be answered by the simplistic question I'm hit with every day of my life: "Are you a man or a woman?

I think girls and boys should be able to be any way they want to be without getting picked on.

surrenderin is unimaginably more dangerous than struggling for survival!

I live proudly in a body of my own design. I defend my right to be complex

If I'm not with a butch everyone just assumes I'm straight. It's like I'm passing too, against my will. I'm sick of the world thinking I'm straight. I've worked hard to be discriminated against as a lesbian

I didn't want to be different. I longed to be everything grownups wanted, so they would love me. I followed all their rules, tried my best to please. But there was something about me that made them knit their eyebrows and frown. No one ever offered a name for what was wrong with me. That's what made me afraid it was really bad. I only came to recognize its melody through this constant refrain: 'Is that a boy or a girl?'

I learned that strength, like height, is measured by who you're standing next to.

everybody's scared, but if you don't let your fears stop you, that's bravery!

My right to be me is tied with a thousand threads to your right to be you.

I began to feel the pleasure of the weightless state between here and there

We have not always been forced to pass, to go underground, in order to work and live. We have a right to live openly and proudly...when our lives are suppressed, everyone is denied an understanding of the rich diversity of sex and gender expression and experience that exist in human society.

I reserve my right to be complex.

Are you with women who only bleed monthly on their cycles?