Leslie Feinberg Quotes

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

Leslie Feinberg
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.

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

Leslie Feinberg
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

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

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

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

Leslie Feinberg
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?'

Leslie Feinberg
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.

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

Leslie Feinberg