“Gender and the complications it gives rise to simply aren't relevant to the lives appliances lead.”

“Drag queen is a gender like no other, and with practice I'd learned to rise to it.”

“I often forget that other people's stories aren't simply introductions to my own more engaging, more dramatic, more relevant, and better-told tales, but rather ends in themselves, tales I can learn from or repeat or dissect or savor.”

“All genders?' whispered Nudge. 'Aren't there just the two'I shrugged. 'No idea. Maybe they've created others.”

“We confuse what is complex (raising a child, finding more meaning in our lives) with what is complicated (sending astronauts to the moon, doing our taxes). Confusing the two, leads us to complicated solutions for things that are actually complex instead.”

“The role of gender in society is the most complicated thing I’ve ever spent a lot of time learning about, and I’ve spent a lot of time learning about quantum mechanics.”