“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.”

“More exists among human beings than can be answered by the simplistic question I'm hit with every day of my life: "Are you a man or a woman?”

“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.”

“Strength, like height, is measured by who you're standing next to.”

“I felt as though I was rushing into a burning building to discover the ideas I needed for my own life.”

“I began to feel the pleasure of the weightless state between here and there.”

“Surrendering is unimaginably more dangerous than struggling for survival.”