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“I remembered what it was like to walk a gauntlet of strangers who stare—their eyes angry, confused, intrigued. Woman or man: they are outraged that I confuse them. The punishment will follow. The only recognition I can find in their eyes is that I am “other.” I am different. I will always be different. I will never be able to nestle my skin against the comfort of sameness.”
― Leslie Feinberg, Stone Butch Blues

“Strength, like height, is measured by who you're standing next to.”
― Leslie Feinberg, Stone Butch Blues

“She must have known what she planned to do, the risk she was going to take. 'Where did that calm come from?' I had wondered at the time. Now I knew. It was a resolve to execute the plan without attachment to the result. It was valuing guts more than the win”
― Lauren Fleshman, Good for a Girl: A Woman Running in a Man's World

“I'm going to take you out of here ... I'm going to take you home, to the world where you belong, where cats with bent tails live, and there are little backyards, and alarm clocks ring in the morning.”
― Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle