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If there's a place you should be able to put yourself first, it's in your own sexual fantasies.Alyssa Brugman
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Sometimes I still feel that there are two of me: one clean, flawless picture, the other imperfect and cracked; one boy, one girl; one voice that speaks aloud and one that whispers in my ear; one publicly known to have been troubled but be on the mend, the other who has privately lost something to do with innocence and gained something to do with knowledge and adulthood that can never be undone. I feel sometimes there are things that tear me in two directions, that there are two sets of thoughts that grow side by side. But then I realize that I am whole, whatever that means and does not mean; I am complete without the need for additions or alteration.Abigail Tarttelin
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The common thread from all those stories was that talking helped, and listening, and time. One day I would find my own place. I couldn't run there, though, because it didn't exist yet; I had to build it myself, out of forgiveness, truth, and terrifying gestures of friendship.I.W. Gregorio
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May you hear my feeble voice! It will tell you that here below there is a heart full of the memory of you.Herculine Barbin
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Oh! To live alone, always alone, in the midst of the crowd that surrounds me, without a word of love ever coming to gladden my soul, without a friendly hand reaching out to me!Herculine Barbin
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I'm never going to be happy, but I could get close now, I think. I could be almost normal. I could have a friend.Alyssa Brugman
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I can see where this is going, too. Of course, I can, because I am Alex as well. But I want to dress up in gorgeous clothes and strut up and down the runway like they do in the magazines, swishing my tail. I want to dress up with Amina and Julia and giggle and be girlfriends, arm in arm. I want to be beautiful. I want other people to think I am beautiful.Alyssa Brugman
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I can understand why you would want to be literally out of your own heard, because being inside your own head is unbearable.Alyssa Brugman
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Do you want me to lick you again?Alyssa Brugman
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Sometimes I don't know what I am. But what I would like to be on the outside -- what I want other people to see -- is a girl.Alyssa Brugman
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Honey, there is no one right way to eat cannelloni.Alyssa Brugman
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That's my wish for our community, as it were, that during this very confusing and amazing time, we be gentle with ourselves, and with each other.Thea Hillman
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In a 1999 paper, Reiner indicates that his data show "that with time and age, children may well know what their gender is, regardless of any and all information and child-rearing to the contrary. They seem to be quite capable of telling us who they are, and we can observe how they act and function even before they tell us.Deborah Rudacille
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I personally believe that gender equality underlines every other equality, and certainly the issue of sexuality. For instance, if we didn’t distinguish between gender, in terms of giving different genders disparate values and attributes, what problem would we have with two men loving each other?Abigail Tarttelin
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It's an arbitrary thing if you're born with an XX or XY chromosome, but it can determine your experience of the world. It's about whether you are physically intimidating vs. being physically intimidated. It determines whether you are the one to take an active role in sex and society.Abigail Tarttelin
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Bodies are not only biological phenomena but also complex social creations onto which meanings have been variously composed and imposed according to time and space.Katrina Karkazis
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While there is no shame in being gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender or intersex - or even straight (but not narrow) - there is most certainly shame and dishonor in being a homophobe, a transphobe and a bigot.Christina Engela
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Love isn’t a choice. You fall for the person, not their chromosomes.I.W. Gregorio
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You are to be pitied more than I, perhaps. I soar above all your innumerable miseries, partaking of the nature of the angels; for, as you have said, my place is not in your narrow sphere. You have the earth, I have boundless space. Enchained here below by the thousand bonds of your gross, material senses, your spirits cannot plunge into that limpid Ocean of the infinite, where, lost for a day upon your arid shores, my soul drinks deep. .Herculine Barbin
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I could still feel the echo of his hand on mine.I.W. Gregorio