“Thank goodness it wasn't real sex.”

“The summer passed quietly. I busied myself as best I could, reading a good deal.”

“There must have been a real mess on the tracks,’ Lorna said, ‘They shut down the F train line for a whole two hours for you. Two hours! And in rush hour!’My final achievement. Man, I hoped Mom was getting that put on my gravestone. Here lies Charlotte Feldman. She pissed off commuters. A lot.”

“I have a mouth for kisses / No one to give or to take / I have a heart in my bosom / Beating for nobody's sake.”

“A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man.”

“You are where you need to be. Just take a deep breath.”

“...the weeping, the tears of the hosts, whose sympathy underscores the inherent tragedy of my life as a transgender person, and this moment fulfilling the cathartic arc of rejection to acceptance, without ever interrogating the pathology of a society that refuses to acknowledge the spectrum of gender in the exact same blind way they refuse to see a spectrum of race or sexuality.”