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I had reached the conclusion myself that sex was not a division but a continuum, that almost nobody was altogether of one sex or another, and that the infinite subtlety of the shading from one extreme to the other was one of the most beautiful of nature's phenomena.

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As to sex, the original pleasure, I cannot recommend too highly the advantages of androgyny.

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A sex change is a very extraordinary thing for someone to have gone through and particularly extraordinary for a writer, I think. But although... the effects of it appear kind of subliminally through everything I've written, I don't believe I've created a work of art around it.

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I was born with the wrong body, being feminine by gender but male by sex, and I could achieve completeness only when the one was adjusted to the other.

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Jan Morris

Jan Morris

Born: October 2, 1926
Died: November 20, 2020 (aged 94)
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