When we talk about my gender as though it were a performance, we let the audience - with all their expectations, prejudices, and presumptions - completely off the hook. - Scott Turner Schofield

Kate Bornstein
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More Quotes By Kate Bornstein
  1. And keep in mind that the you that makes life worthy of living today won’t be the same you that makes life worth living this time next year. Identities aren’t meant to be permanent. They’re like cars: they take us from one place to another....

  2. Disney will never make a movie about my life story, and that's a shame-- I'd make a really cute animated creature.

  3. Never fuck anyone you wouldn't want to be.

  4. …gender is not sane. It's not sane to call a rainbow black and white.

  5. The first question we usually ask new parents is : “Is it a boy or a girl ?”.There is a great answer to that one going around : “We don’t know ; it hasn’t told us yet.” Personally, I think no question containing “either/or” deserves...

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