Born This Way Quotes

“You should never make fun of something that a person can't change about themselves.”
― Phil Lester

“Don't be a drag.
Just be a queen.”
― Lady Gaga

“I'd wear any of my private attire for the world to see. But I would rather have an open flesh wound than ever wear a band aid in public.”
― Lady Gaga

“It's like I get into a roller coaster, and sit there while it goes up and down and upside down and sometimes I get thrown out and I hit my head, but I crawl back in again and the moment I'm back in, it just keeps on going and going again...all of this, so I can find things out and then I write about the things I find out so you can find them out from me. All the bruises, all the wounds, all the bumps on the head, all the scars, just so I can take that and I can write all these things, and sometimes I say "God, I don't want to be in this roller coaster anymore." But when I think about it, if I'm not right here, then where the hell would I be? On the sidewalk? I wasn't born to stand on the sidewalk, I was born to fly around crazy in the sky!”
― C. JoyBell C.

“My fashion is part of who I am, and though I was not born with these clothes on, I was born this way.”
― Lady Gaga

“The mere fact that I exist means that I deserve to be here and to express myself any damn why I please.”
― Euphoria Godsent

“I look around the room at some of the familiar faces and some of those who are still strangers to me. Somewhere deep within, I find the strength. The strength I was born from, that I never knew I possessed. ~Willow Mosby (Exposing ELE”
― Courtney Nuckels, Exposing ELE

“The mere fact that I exist, means that I deserve to be here and to express myself any damn way I please.”
― Euphoria Godsent

“I'm perfectly natural the way I am. Why can't you humans ever understand that I might not want to be afflicted with gender?”
― Carolyn Ives Gilman, Halfway Human

“I kind of feel like I know the reason that I was born. After 58 years of life, I know why I turned out this way. I know why I treasure life so much. I know why I cannot overlook wickedness. All of these things I experienced weren't for nothing. It was for this moment, right now, that I was born. I became a machine for this moment.”
― Hiroya Oku, Inuyashiki 8

“The born-this-way narrative, at its worst, can be used to invalidate transgender existence by claiming that the way we are at birth constitutes the way we will always be. At its best, the assumption that children come to know their gender at an early age—and may only be able to articulate it later—allows for but limits transgender identity to a narrow acceptable framework. Those of us who did not identify as transgender from a young age are seen as suspect and questioned or even outright invalidated. Some will say we haven't done the work to connect our identity to our backgrounds, that we must've missed the signs of our true 'identity.' We were actually transgender all along.”
― Stacy Jane Grover, Tar Hollow Trans: Essays